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Most users ever online was 205 on Mon Dec 05, 2011 1:24 pm

V5 Uninstallation errors

9924 — 2012-02-06T20:34:16-06:00

Hi,

I'm in the middle of a V6 upgrade and am attempting to uninstall V5 as mentioned in the 7 Steps to Upgrade article
"http://www.veeam.com/kb_articles.html/KB1363"

I'm getting errors when attempting to uninstall as follows

Error 1606. Could not access network location /VeeamBackup_CEQVEEAM01.

CEQVEEAM01 is the hostname of the Veeam B&R server.
OS is - Windows Server 2008 R2

I've looked through the configuration files and registry to attempt to find where this location is configured and why it needs it for installation but cannot find which config is causing this issue. I assume it may be looking for the installation media but am not 100% certain on that.

Has anyone else had these issues and if so how did you get around it.
Is there a manual uninstallation process I can follow to remove V5 from Programs & Features + registry?

thanks

Statistics : Posted by juz_far • on Tue Feb 07, 2012 2:34 am • Replies 0 • Views 11

Veeam Backup Upgrade question

23525 — 2012-02-06T19:41:56-06:00

Does veeam recommend always to apply the latest patch-set? or wait until you encounter an issue then talk with support and then apply the latest patchsets or what is typically recommended?

Thanks

Statistics : Posted by jcwuerfl • on Tue Feb 07, 2012 1:41 am • Replies 0 • Views 4

Re: [POLL] What is your PRODUCTION storage for virtualizatio

23525 — 2012-02-06T19:39:44-06:00

Yes and no... IBM likes to change things =)

Statistics : Posted by jcwuerfl • on Sun Jan 29, 2012 2:00 pm • Replies 12 • Views 1345

New v6 Install - db issue

23525 — 2012-02-06T19:37:52-06:00

So just wanted to report back that I ran into an issue with v6 doing a new install. When I tried to pre-create the database via the sql express management studio it didn't work as it seemed to always try and run the Upgrade Script?? Vs. when I let it actually create the mssql database then it worked correctly. Not sure but you may want to add some additional logic to determine if its just a blank ms sql database and run the create scripts vs. upgrade scripts.

Thanks

Statistics : Posted by jcwuerfl • on Tue Feb 07, 2012 1:37 am • Replies 0 • Views 4

Re: CBT and Hot Add failing after Instant Recovery test run

2459 — 2012-02-06T16:20:18-06:00

Alessandro, our support team might know other workarounds/fixes for that. Please contact them directly. Thanks!

Statistics : Posted by Vitaliy S. • on Fri Jan 27, 2012 6:43 pm • Replies 13 • Views 239

Re: Best way to delete old jobs

2459 — 2012-02-06T16:12:58-06:00

The best way would to use "Delete from disk" option on the corresponding entry for the backup/replication job files. Thanks!

Statistics : Posted by Vitaliy S. • on Mon Feb 06, 2012 8:11 pm • Replies 2 • Views 12

Re: Remote Agent Mapped Drive

2459 — 2012-02-06T16:10:37-06:00

Thanks for sharing this information with the community, much appreciated. Mapped drives are in fact not visible to service accounts, so services cannot interact with them directly.

Statistics : Posted by Vitaliy S. • on Mon Feb 06, 2012 5:21 pm • Replies 1 • Views 20

Re: slow FC direct SAn access to eva4400

2459 — 2012-02-06T16:06:22-06:00

lansol wrote:I run my backups at night, yet if i select a single VM from the SAN during the day i can get a backup speed of 80-100MB/s

So you're saying that your backups are way faster during the day? Do you have any scheduled maintenance activities during the night (just wondering)?

Statistics : Posted by Vitaliy S. • on Thu Feb 02, 2012 10:50 pm • Replies 2 • Views 60

Google Apps Notifcations

14901 — 2012-02-06T15:52:51-06:00

Hello,

We recently migrated to Google Apps and our email notifications are failing when testing them inside Veeam Backup and Replication v5.x. I am unable to use smtp.gmail.com, because Veeam doesn't provide a TLS certificate to pass through SSL authentication. And unfortunately, every time I attempt to use aspmx.l.google.com with port 25, Veeam reports that the connection is being actively refused. I've properly input the email account for SMTP authentication and have successfully tested this with a web server that's also in my environment here, so I'm certain that all the information is being entered correctly.

I've followed all the steps on Google's help page over this, but it still fails to work properly: "http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=176600"
Additionally, the only other Veeam forum article I can find is this one, which is for a different produ...

Statistics : Posted by SecondCity • on Mon Feb 06, 2012 9:52 pm • Replies 0 • Views 8

Re: VMware migration -- effect on Veeam backup/replication

6694 — 2012-02-06T15:38:53-06:00

I've seen many times storage vmotion, if done while the VM is powered off like in your case, resets the CBT data and the next backup copies all the blocks and not only the newly modified ones. I wrote about it in another thread on these forums.

Luca.

Statistics : Posted by dellock6 • on Mon Feb 06, 2012 5:44 pm • Replies 2 • Views 34

Re: v6 Backup File Format & dedupe appliances

6694 — 2012-02-06T15:31:43-06:00

As I wrote elsewhere in these forums, ExaGrid guys told me v6 official support is lacking only in regards of the newly added Hyper-V support, but since v5 and v6 files have the same format, you are good to use ExaGrid on Veeam v6 for vSphere backups.

About advanced options, they stated alignment is not needed, decompression I think is needed if you are compressing the backup, but sound silly to me to compress and decompress while backing up in a lan environment, use this only if you are crossing a wan link and you have a veeam proxy on the other site.

Luca.

Statistics : Posted by dellock6 • on Thu Feb 02, 2012 4:37 pm • Replies 9 • Views 125

Re: VBR - Physcial server - Win2k8 x64 or Win2k3 x64 :

6694 — 2012-02-06T15:27:43-06:00

Virtual Port ID does not aggregate gigabit ports, you are confusing this with etherchannel (IP Hash on vSphere). On etherchannel, your 8 nics will be aggregated in a virtual 8 gbit connection, on port id, every connection to/from the management network will use one of the nic, but the maximum speed you can have is 1 gbit as you suspected.
To use etherchannel you need trunk capability on the upstream switches, but 32 MBits is not a limit value for a single gigabit network anyway...

Luca.

Statistics : Posted by dellock6 • on Sun Jan 29, 2012 3:49 pm • Replies 6 • Views 95

Re: Veeam v6 and SQL backups

22645 — 2012-02-06T15:26:09-06:00

Dear dxhahn,

thanks for your sight to sql backup. Let me explain you our way of doing (sql) backups.

Veeam alway backups the whole VM with all of it´s application and databases.
In the first backup we read out all the datastore storage blocks and store them as a backup file.
After this step we use the vmware change block tracking funktionality to read out only the changed blocks (from a storage perspective).

In case you have this 1TB SQL database and there are only some litte changes 100MB each 30 minutes:
Normal agent based backups had to transfer 1TB of data in case of a full or read out logs.

If you backup this VM with Veeam, Veeam transfers only the changed blocks (~100MB) but from a restor perspective this backup is in every case a full backup of the database.

So if you backup your VM with Veeam every 30 minutes your have 48 restore points each day. And you can restore to this points without log file processing.
The amount of data that is backed up is ~1TB once + 48x ~100M...

Statistics : Posted by Andreas Neufert • on Fri Feb 03, 2012 9:05 pm • Replies 5 • Views 89

Re: SAN -> Virtual Appliance -> Net backup

15090 — 2012-02-06T14:39:04-06:00

Hi, thanks for the reply.

But, Hotadd does work if I create a job and pick a proxy that is only configured with Virtual Appliance as the transport (not automatic). Let me try to explain better...

Here's what I have observed: for the same group of 50 VMs (let's say half are in iSCSI luns and half in NFS):

case a) If I select a proxy for that job and set the transport mode to automatic, the proxy selects SAN mode for VMs in iSCSI and NBD for VMs in NFS.

case b) If I select a proxy for that job and set the transport mode to 'Virtual Appliance', then the job runs in Vritual appliance for all VMs (iSCSI and NFS).

case c) If, for the same job of 50 VMs, I create two proxies, one automatic and one forced to Virtual Appliance, then the job only seems to use the 'automatic' proxy. So when the job backs up a VM in iSCSI lun, it uses SAN mode and when it reaches a VM in NFS, it uses NBD.

Hence my assumption that the job picks the proxy at the beginning of the job. If not, how can we ex...

Statistics : Posted by JohnG • on Sun Feb 05, 2012 8:38 pm • Replies 2 • Views 45

Replication VM size is double the actual size

26530 — 2012-02-06T13:54:20-06:00

I have some large VM's that seem to have issues with replication (as in they fail) one of them is 326GB but with I try to Replicate it to a datastore that has 750GB of free space, it fails stating that the VM is larger than the available space on the traget data store. This doesn't make any sense. the VM is in fact half the size of the available space. Why would VEEAM think my 326GM vm is 750+gb??

I Fact I've noticed that Replication consitantly indicates that my VM's are 2x their actual size. How do I fix this? or is this a function of the fact that it counts the Seeding size + the first replication size as the total VM size?? I need this fixed. I have a 1.5TB VM that I need to a replicate. and based on what I am seeing, it will never be able to replicate (until I upgrade my environement from ESX 4.1 to ESXi 5.0)

Statistics : Posted by pcmmitham • on Mon Feb 06, 2012 7:54 pm • Replies 0 • Views 18

Re: Veeam Backup & Removable Media (rotated drives)

5133 — 2012-02-06T13:13:33-06:00

Could you please be specific about what "work around" is not acceptable. As far as I can tell, except for requiring the sub-folder to exist, the behavior is exactly the same as V5 when using this registry key. Are you finding that not to be the case?

Statistics : Posted by tsightler • on Sat Dec 05, 2009 8:55 pm • Replies 40 • Views 4333

Re: cannot use search at this time

20141 — 2012-02-06T10:59:26-06:00

I did get the message on the very first search. I think the user flood interval will help a lot -- when I search I prefer to find 5-10 different results that interest me and open them all up in additional browser tabs before actually looking at the posts. That means I go through 2-4 pages of results very quickly -- and each page is considered a new search. In addition, sometimes a rather general search will yield results that help me refine my search into something more specific. 60 seconds would explain a lot of my frustration (which I theorized above).

As to the Google search thing -- let me just say that it's an OK workaround, but I wouldn't consider it a "fix". There are a number of reasons why I think it's inferior (I suppose that's props to the Veeam search).

Statistics : Posted by averylarry • on Fri Oct 28, 2011 6:20 pm • Replies 13 • Views 287

Re: Permance issues over Fibre Channel

26726 — 2012-02-06T07:33:11-06:00

Hi,

Thank you very much for your help on this everyone.

I've looked in to this problem and noticed the auto fragment job that was set up has not run for over a year - grr! Consequently file fragmentation is up at 60%.

I'm going to run some tests on other VMs that I know have file fragmentation and see if there is a difference with backup speed and see what happens.

Statistics : Posted by russwatkins • on Fri Jan 27, 2012 11:49 am • Replies 5 • Views 112

Re: Poor performance from D2D2Tape backup utilising Veeam v6

6694 — 2012-02-06T07:00:11-06:00

If you need to change tape everyday, and you have a sufficient backup windows, the best choice is to do a full active backup everyday. In this way every tape has a full backup in it, and when you need to restore, you only have to pick one tape.
Instead, if you can leave tape inside the tape loader for more than one day, full+incremental is still the best choice.

Luca.

Statistics : Posted by dellock6 • on Tue Jan 24, 2012 4:11 pm • Replies 8 • Views 286

Re: Veeam 6.x job duration value

26284 — 2012-02-06T06:58:07-06:00

thanks for merging my post into this one.

Statistics : Posted by tfloor • on Fri Jan 06, 2012 7:55 am • Replies 5 • Views 159

Re: Veeam Monitor v6?

20895 — 2012-02-06T06:29:38-06:00

If you need more beta testers, I volunteer.

Statistics : Posted by JWester • on Fri Jan 20, 2012 10:33 pm • Replies 2 • Views 109

Re: Veeam Worst Support I Have Ever Seen!

16169 — 2012-02-06T06:27:08-06:00

Veeam is a growing company and I'm sure they are having some growing pains right now. Everyone switching to ESXi 5 doesn't make it any better. Lower severity tickets are never going to see immediate repsonse, even VMWare can take up to 4 hours to get back to me, or even days if the issue isn't affecting production. I'm a happy customer.

Statistics : Posted by crichardson • on Fri Feb 03, 2012 2:19 pm • Replies 10 • Views 967

Re: Second local Proxy problem

23666 — 2012-02-06T06:07:45-06:00

David, seems to be permissions issue. Please continue to investigate with support.

Statistics : Posted by foggy • on Thu Feb 02, 2012 6:52 pm • Replies 4 • Views 80

Re: Realtime Statistics - Suggestion

26284 — 2012-02-06T05:24:56-06:00

cool, no arrows in the gui... but good to know

Statistics : Posted by tfloor • on Sun Feb 05, 2012 11:22 pm • Replies 2 • Views 45

Re: Get-VBRJob

21363 — 2012-02-06T04:06:28-06:00

A shorter version would be

Code:: #v5 if ((Get-VBRJob | ?{$_.Name -eq "JobName"} | Measure-Object).Count -eq 0) { "The job doesn't exist" | Out-Default } #v6 if ((Get-VBRJob -Name "JobName" | Measure-Object).Count -eq 0) { "The job doesn't exist" | Out-Default }

Statistics : Posted by ThomasMc • on Sat Feb 04, 2012 1:36 pm • Replies 2 • Views 26

Re: Script telling Veeam to remove backups in specific repos

21363 — 2012-02-06T03:33:10-06:00

Or this

Code:: Get-VBRBackup | ?{$_.GetTargetRepository().Name -eq "RepositoryName"} | Remove-VBRBackup -WhatIf

Add in -FromDisk and -Confirm:$false if needed

Statistics : Posted by ThomasMc • on Sat Feb 04, 2012 12:25 pm • Replies 2 • Views 27

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