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Another year and another VeeamOn. This will be the third VeeamOn I’ve attended and as usual I can’t wait. This year VeeamOn will be held in Miami, Florida. Based on the image above (photo by aurora.kreativ on Unsplash) I’m sure we will all survive. Why go to VeeamOn? The sessions, the opportunity to
A little while ago, I had to restore an entire mailbox from an Exchange server backup. As the date required had exceeded what we hold on disk, it was a tape restore. Yep, tape, still use them and I’m a bit of a fan. It makes it very easy to have an offsite copy that […]
I’ve just had a second 3PAR array upgraded to 3.3.1 and again Veeam Storage Integration could no longer talk to the 3PAR. After much diagnosing the first time, the solution turned out to be rather simple. After the 3PAR upgrade, backup jobs failed with “internal server error”. When doing a re-scan o
On 19th December 2017 version 2.1 of the Veeam Agent for Windows was released. One of the new features is direct backup and restore from Microsoft OneDrive, this is a feature I didn’t realise was in the pipeline (perhaps I missed it) however very excited to see it! Here’s all the new features – Veea
Earlier this year I attended VeeamOn in New Orleans. What an experience! My first trip to the USA and my first VeeamOn. The whole experience was excellent. The presentations were awesome, the vendors very friendly and keen to chat and the best part was being able to meet and speak with heaps of Veea
After much anticipation Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 v1.5 is now GA! Yay! I have jumped straight in and upgraded my v1 installation. You can download the latest Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 from https://www.veeam.com/backup-microsoft-office-365-download.html The download is a tiny
I know Veeam was not put on this earth to do backups to tape and especially file backups to tape.. However I have a requirement for it at a site. There are 4 large (10TB each) volumes presented from the 3PAR storage array to a physical server. The data stored on these volumes has to […]
After installing our new 3PAR arrays I was not able to get them connected to Veeam (v9 with latest updates). Everytime I tried to add the an array it would come back with “authentication failed” After checking and double checking passwords, it turns out the latest 3PAR update, 3.2.2 MU3, breaks the