Background. One of the features that have been available in Veeam for a little while is the ability to recover from any backup taken with Veeam, be that VMware, Hyper-V, Veeam Agent for Windows or Veeam Agent for Linux. Veeam takes care of any conversion process that needs to take […]
Background I have previously written a blog post about Veeam Agent for Windows management with Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5 U3. In that post, I mentioned the agent upgrade process was not entirely plane sailing. Initial upgrade results in an Error 53 ERROR_BAD_NETPATH error which is a generic Windows error […]
Managed agents, Veeam, physical workloads, Whats that about then? Well then, Veeam has come full circle from its roots as a virtual infrastructure backup platform, to a full availability suite. Offering backups to the public cloud, Veeam cloud connect and now full management for physical Windows and Linux workloads. The […]
Free is the new free. Let’s get a bit of background to this feature that seems to have slipped under the radar, Veeam Agent for Windows 2.1 was released with Veeam 9.5 U3 to support some of the new agent management functionality in Veeam Backup and Replication console. The free […]
Background Whilst migrating some service roles from Windows server 2008 R2 to Server 2016 I noticed that the Veeam backups of the new servers were failing with the error Failed to check whether snapshot is in progress (network mode). RPC function failed. Function name [IsSnapshotInProgress] Target Machine [MachineName] RPC error. The […]
vee Afterthoughts I recently attended VeeamON Forum London which was a one day event put on by Veeam. The idea behind the event was for Veeam to update its audience on upcoming features and to provide some tips and tricks around improving the Veeam experience. I am looking at this […]
Background A recent project I was working on involved deploying five physical servers for use and Veeam repository servers. The problem however is the operating system was pre-instaled on a different RAID set to the one I was expecting it to be on. I could have rebuilt the servers, but […]
Why attend? Yeah that’s me in the middle above, looking daft, but I am sat next to some very smart folk. Former Veeam Vanguards and now Veeam employees Anthony Spiteri and Tim Smith. The point is though it’s not just the vendors who are at the event, it’s the other […]
Nimble SFA – Putting your backup data to work. Following on from part 5 – a closer look at deduplication of this blog series, we will take a look at how the Nimble SFA helps to put your backup data to work. What on earth am I talking about? For me […]
Nimble SFA – A closer look at deduplication. Following on from part 4 – creating a Veeam backup job and what to look out for of this blog series, we will take a look at how the Nimble deduplication works and some of the gotchas that I came across whilst evaluating the […]