If you have a large environment that is constantly changinh, you may want some automation to test VMs every day with Veeam SureBackup. Here’s a solution to do so.
How can you test 1000 VMs with Veeam SureBackup?
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Image-level backups can be done even without CBT
Lately, different bugs involving VMware CBT in vSphere 6 have created some justified concerns among users. But there are ways to guarantee successful backups even in these conditions.
Create new backup jobs in Veeam via powershell
When you have to deal with a large environment and several jobs in Veeam, automation via powershell is the only possible solution.
Send email notifications to Slack
A nice and easy way to receive email notifications into Slack.
The new Veeam Cloud Connect, now with replication services
Last year, Veeam released Veeam Cloud Connect, a new technology that allows the easy creation and consumption of offsite backup repositories. It was the first solution specifically designed around Service Providers, both from a technical and business point of view. Its extreme ease of use and capabilities made it an instant success, and as of today several hundreds of service providers are offering offsite backup services based on Cloud Connect.
As a first generation technology, everyone was expecting additional capabilities in the following versions, and the most common request has always been “are you going to add replication capabilities?”.
As you can guess from the title of this post, that’s exactly what is coming in the next version!
Service Providers Tour, this time down under!
As I promised few months ago, I was planning to repeat the Service Providers tour in other regions. Well, time has come, and has you are writing this post, I’m flying over Asia and the Indian Ocean towards Auckland, my first stop. We will hit also Melbourne and Sydney.
Veeam backup repository on CentOS 7
If you want to use CentOS 7 as a Veeam repository, the basic requirements are not enough, and you have to adjust the installation a little bit.
Change all your Veeam backup jobs to the new forward forever-incremental
When you upgrade Veeam Backup & Replication to V8, you have available the new Forward forever-incremental mode for your backups. This is the default method for all newly created jobs, but the already existing backup jobs are not changed, because we do not want to change the user experience or create issues to I/O profiles, backup windows and such.
This great powershell script will take all your existing forward incremental backup jobs and reconfigure them to use the new forward forever-incremental mode.