For Backups Guest OS files and indexing(and application awareness), Veeam needs Admin rights in Guest OS(Windows and Linux). In Windows a Domain Administrator account, and in Linux root access to perform this type of Backups and also Restore. In this article, we will only focus on the Linux root account. Since for security reasons most … Read more
Veeam launched the new Update 1 for Veeam Backup & Replication and Veeam ONE. This update for both products will fix more than 300 enhancements and bug fixes(mainly Veeam B&R). For Veeam Backup & Replication v9 Update 1: HERE New features that are included in this new update: Enhanced extent selection logic for scale-out backup … Read more
Today when we tried to update one of our Veeam v8 to v9, we got this issue, and the upgrade failed. Checking the logs(C:\ProgramData\Veeam\Setup\Temp\CatalogSetup.log) from the upgrade, I see that this is related to VBRCatalog that is/was pointing to this drive that no longer exists. “MSI (s) (2C:9C)[22:04:17:969]: Note: 1: 2318 2: MSI (s) … Read more
A Veeam Vanguard if a program that give award to individuals for their contribute to Veeam products in participation in forums, webinars, blog posts, white papers, etc. Official announcement here This is the official page: Veeam Vanguard. Veeam Vanguard 2016 will be open until 30 of March. I have myself applied this year(since … Read more
In this article we will configure our Veeam Backup Infrastructure to use Direct NFS Access transport mechanism. Since in this infrastructure we use iSCSI(as Backup Repository) and NFS(as VMware VMs Storage Datastore) we need to make some changes in our infrastructure to enable Direct NFS Access. First I will try to share a design of … Read more
Continuing the ESXi 6.0 CBT(Change Block Tracking) issue, so that our backups and restore can work properly, CBT needs to be reset. This is a mandatory task that needs to be done to all VMs that are in the Backups jobs. Regardless of the Backup tool you use to backup your VMware environment. Again, in … Read more
In the last weeks there was found another bug in the CBT feature in ESXi 6.0 and ESXi Update 1. The bug affects all Backups in the VMware Virtual area. This bug affect any tool that use CBT(used in the incremental backups) in their backups. VMware note: “When running incremental virtual machine backups, backup … Read more
