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Veeam creates software for virtual machines. Best known for backup and replication of guests within VMware and HyperV infrastructures, they also have monitoring tools for virtual infrastructure in their portfolio.

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Veeam Backup failing. Cannot create a shadow copy of the volumes containing writers data

We have a Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2 VMWare VM that is failing Veeam backups with the following error: Failed to prepare guest for hot backup. Error: VSSControl: 1 Backup job failed. Cannot create a shadow copy of the volumes containing writer's…
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Veeam Back jobs failing with error: Error: Client error: ChannelError: ConnectionReset

My Veeam Backup was working fine until one day I got this error: Error: Client error: ChannelError: ConnectionReset I was having this error for every backup job(new and old) and restore job. The configuration is: Windows Server 2008 R2 as vCenter…
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Error during Veeam SQL log backup: "Failed to flush file buffers"

My company uses Veeam Backup & Replication to make backups of our VMWare-hosted virtual machines. We use Veeam's SQL log backup feature for our MS SQL 2008 R2 server. Our backup repository resides on a Buffalo TeraStation TS-XLBF NAS. At some point,…
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Veeam Backup Size Calculation

This is just an informative question about Veeam Backup size. I was setting some backup tasks in Veeam Backup and FastSCP v4.1.1. And while setting I checked the entire backup size of that task and I could see as shown below: Source data is shown…
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Move VMDK files to different datacenter

I am looking for a possible methods to migrate VMs from vSphere 4.1 to new vSphere 4.1. What is the best way to do this minimal downtime? I want to know how to migrate an virtualized active directory server 2003 and exchange server 2007 to a new…
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Verifying Veeam Backups per Server using Powershell

I can use Powershell and the Get-VBRBackup and Get-VBRJob commandlets to get the status of a back up job. But i want to verify an individual server has been backed up in the last 7 days. Is that possible with Powershell?
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Replication with Veeam causes timeouts on large VM's

I have been trying to replicate two of my larger VM's one being Exchange 2003 and once the snapshot begins to commit the server begins to time out. I have updates my ESX hosts from 4.0.0 to 4.1 and now it is worse. My snapshots are taking even…
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Trying to clone old linux machines using to img methods

I found this handy website to show how to clone drives to a img file: https://www.maketecheasier.com/clone-entire-hard-drive-linux/ What neatish looking option was partimage, so I wanted to get that rolling on our very old, very not updated systems…
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Veeam SQL Server Database Publishing Fail with unexpected error code 3

So we have been experimenting with Veeam Backup & Replication for a while now. We setup a dedicated VM for Veeam Backup Server which performs daily backups of all our infrastructure components. We have not aquired a licence yet, so this is the…
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Veeam and physical servers

Is it possible to create the backups from physical servers via Veeam software? Any experiences? I know that the Veeam is good for creating backup from VMs, but how about physical servers? Cheers.
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Veeam and Hyper-V - Failed to flush change tracking data. Using full scan incremental run

Windows Server 2012 R2 - Hyper-V. I have tried already: reset CBT by using Reset-HvVmChangeTracking command disabled host CBT than run sc stop VeeamFCT than removed registry key…
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Centos 7x with 3.16 kernel

How do I get a 3.16 kernel? Veeam agent is not letting me backup btrfs with the 3.10, I grabbed 4.4 LT and system won't boot so scrapped that
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Hyper-V merge checkpoint causes disk inaccessibility

We currently have 2 Hyper-V host (Windows Server 2016). One of them contains all of the running machines, while the other contains the same machines, but as powered off replicas. To keep them in sync, we are using a replication job in VEEAM Backup…
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Veeam Hyper-V Cluster Off-Host Backup Proxy

I'm creating a new HPE configuration for a Hyper-V cluster. Need also to consider Veeam and Off-Host Backup Proxy. This might be a silly question, but considering HPE MSA 2052, does it make any difference if it's SAS or SAN to Veeam in this subject…
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How to use Veeam to recover locally-hosted Exchange mailbox alias to implement on Exchange Online

I've inherited an IT department after just 1 year in it, during which the 30-year sole-IT person retired, and his replacement, who hired me, left for a remote position. Shortly before he left, Veeam was implemented as our backup solution, and we…
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