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I have a weird one for you all. Using an LTO drive on a remote agent machine. Installed media, ran inventory, found it was a used tape from other software so marked it as free. When that had finished I went into the properties of the tape to label it and also move it into a Media Pool. I have a backup job that takes mirrored data and creates a full backup to the tape, the issue is when the job starts on its schedule it hangs, create a brand new tape with a new id and sits in an unidentified media pool hanging the backup. If I then move that newly created tape into the selected media pool the job then continues. Why would it create brand new media when I have already ran an inventory, it has identified the tape and I have set it to the correct media pool. Any ideas on how to fix this??

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Hi I am just experimenting with some virtualisation. i have setup a VMWare ESXi 6 host and added a couple of VMs. I have installed vSphere on my Windows 7 station and can connect to the ESXi 6 host with no trouble and administer it. I have downloaded and installed Veeam 8 Free. It is installed on my Windows 7 station and the installation went smoothly and it opens and everything appears to be OK. So, when I try to add a server, it asks me for the DNS name or IP address of the VMWare server. I am assuming this is the IP address of the ESXi host which I am entering. Next, it asks me for the server administrators credentials. Are these the credentials of the ESXi host i.e. the root account or the credentails of the machine where vSphere is installed. I would really appreciate any advice on this. Thanks.

One of my schools recently came out of a third party SIMS backup agreement and I assumed that the previously set up backup regime using Symantec was still running -t his stopped the SQL before the backup ran and restarted it after. Unfortunately it seems these commands have been removed. It's easy enough to replace them (though I'm guessing they need revising to stop SQL2012 rather than 2008) but reading the documentation I'm now concerned that maybe it wasn't being done properly in the first place. So a few questions: Is the above a valid method of backing up SIMS? If so, what should be ticked in the selection area? Should I be scripting/performing a regular dbattach type backup? If so, how frequently? (I could only find bak files spaced months apart) Those files are HUGE. Is it safe to use SIMS to tidy up older ones? How much older do people go? In my VEEAM schools is a "normal" VEEAM backup (or replication) OK, or should I be doing more?

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Although Veeam Endpoint Backup isn't due to be released until early next year, it looks like a great way to ensure that your Windows PCs are backed up (especially for free!). www.veeam.com/blog/announcing-veeam-endpoint-backup-free.html

Hi all, Got a strange one here hopefully someone can shed some light on please Veeam B&R backing up from VMWare to NAS repositories. I'm moving my Veeam B&R (v9.5.0.823) to another server. I've originally had this installed on a VMWare vCenter server and recently read that isn't a good idea. I see why thinking about it, but it's worked for a couple of years with no bother. I've created a new Server 2016 VM, fresh full installation of Veeam B&R. Restored a fresh configuration backup from the old server using the 'migrate' option in the import. The import went fine. All my hosts, repositories and jobs are present. I've re-scanned all repositories and they pass fine. I've re-scanned the local backup proxy and it passes fine. However when I run any job I get the error: 'Unable to allocate processing resources. Error: All backup proxies are offline or outdated' Then the proxy becomes unavailable and requires re-scanning to bring it back, which it does successfully. To troubleshoot: I created a new repository A new backup job Same proxy But I still get the error. The only jobs that are working are physical machines backing up into a B&R repository from Veeam Endpoint Backup. Veeam support are stumped so far. So am I Has anyone come across this before ?? Cheers in advance EDIT: Adding a new proxy on another VM seems to work. Why can't it use itself as the proxy?

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Hi, We are intending on using VEEAM for on-site backups (currently using DPM), and just wanted to get an idea on what licence type & costs other schools are paying? As one supplier has quoted us for VEEAM Data Platform Essentials (per 5x VMs) on a 5-year subscription. I assume this is the newer (e.g. more costly) licencing model, as opposed to the cheaper legacy licencing (that was calculated per CPU??) The requirement is to protect (up to) 20 Server VMs. (typical... VEEAM has since increased costs on 1st June 2025!!!) Thanks,

Evening All, I have a 2019 Standard server which runs Veeam. For a while now the Windows Update service has broken on it. I've tried to fix it with everything I find on the web. I've run the trouble-shooters, run the commands that I've found here: Fix Windows Update corruptions and installation failures - Windows Server | Microsoft Learn I've followed blogs etc etc - all of which basically say the same thing. Nothing works. I've tried manually installing, but they fail and keep rolling back (so at least that is working). Short of re-building the server, does anyone have any ideas? Ideally I want to avoid spending time rebuiling. I don't generally backup the backup server. Cheers Gareth

Hi all, I have a physical file server with about 2TB of users data on it. Acronis Backup & Recovery is running incremental backups every night.... but it's awful and keeps letting me down again and again so it has to go. This is my last physical server and realistically can't VM it before Easter. In the meantime I'm thinking of Veeam Endpoint Backup on it backing up to a Veeam B&R repository in full fat Veeam. Now, to keep the backup size/time down I've split my Acronis backups into several separate jobs e.g. Pupils data, Desktops, My Docs etc etc. I can't see how staring at it, but can you set up multiple file level backup jobs in Endpoint? It looks to me that you can only have one job configured at any time full stop. Anyone know different ? Cheers in advance EDIT: Or in Veeam B&R can Endpoint be used as an agent for triggering backups. Would be a great feature if so.

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Hi all, Just setting up VM replication in Veeam to a second host - three mission critical production servers - a DC, MIS server and print/management server. This is for the event of the primary host going bang --> fire up the replica VM --> all good . I'm wondering how to schedule the replication process. I already run two separate Veeam backup jobs per night of all my production VM's, and an extra (third) one of the MIS server --> I could restore these backups in an emergency but it would take time hence the replication. I'm thinking once once per week. How would you do it ? Cheers in advance