What is your data protection strategy?
Background I have noticed over the last 12 months or so that ransomware attacks are becoming even more sophisticated in what their attack vector is. The nasty ones will delete common backups files, like...
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Veeam Backup for Office 365 – Upgrade to V4
Background With the release of Veeam Backup for Office 365 in the backend of 2019, Veeam has moved the game on in terms of product functionality. Until now, Veeam lacked any kind of integration...
LUV:VUL – What happened to Veeam Instance Licensing?
Background I wrote about Veeam Instance Licensing and it’s pros and cons back in April this year. The premise was great, the execution of it, not so much. It was confusing to work out...
Veeam Instance Licensing. What’s that about then?
Background When Veeam Backup and Replication 9.4 U4 was released in January 2019, it brought with it a new licensing model called Instance licensing. The marketing machine at Veeam would have you believe this...
Error: Failed to find crypto key – Veeam
Background Following an upgrade to Veeam 9.5 U4, some of my back jobs started to fail with the error, “Error: Failed to find crypto key” Solution There was not much info on the...
One thing led to another….. vCommunity edition
Say what now? What I don’t want this post to come across as is a Hey look at me type of post. It is not. Instead, I want to share my journey into the vCommunity over...
Sizing backup storage: Veeam for Office 365
Background I recently expanded my Veeam for Office 365 deployment to protect additional organisations but it struck me that I had no idea how much data I needed to protect from Office 365! If this...
Office 365 backup – Do you need it?
Protecting Office 365 A common misconception when moving resources such as Exchange e-mail or SharePoint to Office 365 is that the Microsoft will take care of the data backups for you. Unfortunately, this is...
Veeam for Nutanix AHV – Lets take a quick peek
Background. Veaam announced their upcoming Nutanix Acropolis Hyper-Visor support a few months ago and since then there have been various internal betas available for testing, one of which I demoed in this online presentation. The...
Connecting Oracle Ravello applications with VeeamPN and Elastic IP’s
Background. If you are not familiar with the concept of an application in Ravello, it is a grouping of virtual machines that run in a defined region (notice I avoided saying container there, could become...
