Tag: Veeam

Veeam Data Cloud Microsoft 365: Remove Deleted Sites from Backup Jobs

May 22, 2024

If you’re using Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365 to backup your SharePoint sites, and then you delete a SharePoint site, you’re going to get a warning it can no longer be backed up, obviously, because it’s gone! If this is intentional then you’ll get bored of the warnings pretty quickly, this blog post shows…
World Backup Day 2024: SLAs & Exceeding Them!

March 21, 2024

Hi, for this year’s world backup day I’ll be providing two posts on topics that I believe are important for data protection, this is the first one: SLAs & Exceeding them! So, what is an SLA? An SLA (Service Level Agreement) is typically an accepted standard for a service. In the case of data protection,…
Veeam & Veeam Supported Products Reaching End of Life in 2024

January 9, 2024

Times change, and software changes with them, until it’s no longer supported. At any point, a patch to an operating system, a .NET framework update, or anything else really, could end up with the software no longer being backed up properly, or not working at all in production. Without valid support there’s no process to…
Veeam Backup & Replication: v12 Compression Improvements

November 27, 2023

One lesser discussed improvement in Veeam B&R v12 is the compression improvements they’ve made when working at higher compression levels. Full benchmarks and details inside this blog post.
Veeam B&R x Azure Storage: Failed to Copy Blob

November 22, 2023

If you’re using Veeam Backup & Replication and Microsoft Azure Storage and you find yourself with the ‘Failed to Copy Blob’ error, this post just might help!
Veeam B&R – NAS Cache Metadata Movement Gets Stuck

November 13, 2023

Ever had Veeam get stuck when attempting to migrate your NAS Cache repository data? In this post I show you how to gracefully resolve this stuck task, and another way of migrating the data.
Veeam NAS Backup: Invalid Root Item Type

October 25, 2023

NAS Backups and Symlinks don’t have to be enemies, in this blog post I show you how to work around this within Veeam Backup & Replication!
Veeam B&R: Performance Impact of Pending Tasks

August 21, 2023

Tell me if you’ve seen this situation before. You’ve got some servers & applications that need protecting. You create your backup jobs as necessary, there’s different backup jobs for your various application-integration requirements, backup frequencies, and retention requirements, it’s starting to sprawl. Inevitably there’s some job scheduling overlap. Backup jobs are waiting for other backup…
Veeam V12: Immutability with HPE StoreOnce – Part 3 (2FA)

July 24, 2023

In part 3 of the “Veeam V12: Immutability with HPE StoreOnce” series, I want to share an update from the latest firmware. 4.3.6 introduces two-factor authentication for StoreOnce users!
Veeam Hardened Repository – Pre-Built ISO

July 17, 2023

At VeeamON 2023 Christoph Meyer, Hannes Kasparick and Rick Vanover from Veeam announced a pre-built ISO for the deployment of a Veeam Hardened Repository. The ISO is based on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and will automatically harden the server so that it’s compliant to DISA STIG.