Veeam Virtual Labs & SureBackup
Jul01

Veeam Virtual Labs & SureBackup

KB ID 0001572 Problem If you require a ‘Virtual Lab’ for testing patches or config changes, on copies of your live servers, or simply want to test the ‘integrity’ of your backups, then this is the post for you! Licence Requirements: SureBackup and On Demand Sandbox require Enterprise Plus Veeam Licensing. Host Licences: Hosts that are only used for SureBackup  / On Demand Sandbox DO NOT NEED Licences, (in...

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Veeam: Restore/Migrate vSphere VM to Hyper-V
May22

Veeam: Restore/Migrate vSphere VM to Hyper-V

KB ID 0001559 Problem I saw this question asked on EE the other day, and while I’ve done Migrating from vSphere to Microsoft before, I’ve never really tried with Veeam. Migrating and Restoring vSphere Machines to Azure is easy, but what about Hyper-V? Solution Veeam Backup and Recovery Download Natively with Veeam Backup and Restore, the only way to do this, is to perform an Agent Based backup of your VMware VM. If you are...

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Veeam: Error No Backup Proxy is Available
Apr29

Veeam: Error No Backup Proxy is Available

KB ID 0001540 Problem I was asked to take a look at this by a colleague; Unable to allocate processing resources Error: No backup proxy is able to process this VM due to proxy processing mode restrictions. Solution This is a pretty generic error to be honest, at first glance it would look like the proxy either needed more CPU/RAM, (or another proxy adding altogether). However  and the root cause was the Veeam server was attached to...

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Veeam Restore Error: Copying Data from Deduplicated Volumes
Feb26

Veeam Restore Error: Copying Data from Deduplicated Volumes

KB ID 0001521 Problem If you attempt to restore items from a backup of a server where the data was stored on a deduplicated volume, you may see the following error; Copying data from deduplicated volumes requires that the console is installed on Windows Server 2012 R2 or later with the data duplication feature enabled. Restoring files from  deduplicated volumes requires that the mount server associated with the source backup...

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Veeam: Restore / Migrate a VM to Azure
Jan28

Veeam: Restore / Migrate a VM to Azure

KB ID 0001511 Problem Veeam is both a great company, and backup and recovery is the best product in its class by a country mile, (yes Zerto is great but it costs a fortune!) With Backup and Recovery 9.5 Update 4. You can recover a VM straight into Azure, (and Azure Stack). Which pretty much means you can use Veeam to Migrate your VMs (or physical machines) from vCenter (or Hyper-V) into Azure/Azure Stack. You need to have a successful...

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