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VBR – Linux server

When a Linux VM is added to Veeam console as a Proxy Server,  you can fall out in the error shown in picture 1

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The reason for this behavior is that the default VM config does not allow another software to see the UUID of the VM.

What is UUID?

It’s the unique identifier used to uniquely identify partitions in Linux operating systems.

Why is it important to use it?

A backup where the proxy is a Linux VM only works with virtual appliance transport mode. It uses the VMware hot add capability.

Easier: when a job starts, the proxy Linux mounts the disks of the VM that have to be processed and then send a copy of data to the Veeam Repository.

If the backup server knows which are the proxy disks it can process the others easily and without errors.

The result is that it’s mandatory to set it up correctly as shown in the user guide and in Veeam forum

Note 1: the Linux command to show UUID is blkid

To address the issue just switch off the VM and, from vCENTER Console, follow the procedure showed in the next 4 pictures highlighted in yellow.

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That’s all folks

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Site Restyling

In the next days, the site will have some changes. The main reason is helping the internet surfer to find faster the article they want reading.

The First 5 improving are:

1. The “who am I?” page has been included in the “all articles & about me” page
2. All the articles present on the site can be easily consulted from the “all articles & about me” page.
3. The backup menu name has been changed to Veeam.
4. Veeam menu has three new categories. It allows identifying the technology scope
5. BBO bridge tournament results have been added to the bridge menu.

 

Nei prossimi giorni il sito subirà alcune modifiche. Lo scopo è quello di aiutare i frequentatori del sito a trovare più velocemente gli articoli che vogliono leggere.

I primi 5 miglioramenti sono:

1. La pagina “who am I?” è stata inserita nella  pagina “all articles & about me”
2. Tutti gli articoli presenti nel sito sono facilmente consultabili dalla pagina “all articles & about me“.
3. Il nome del menu backup viene modificato in Veeam.
4. Al menu Veeam sono state aggiunte 3 nuove sotto categorie per meglio individuare in quale ambito utilizzare le tecnologie.
5. Al menu del bridge sono stati aggiunti i risultati dei tornei di bridge BBO.

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Veeam NAS Backup – Scripts for Demo live

BR v.10 introduced a great new feature. 

NAS Backup allows managing the protection of the environment where files and folders are a focus point for a company.

This article does not cover how a Nas Backup job works or how to set it up. Please refer to the official documentation to have all details.

What is the scope of the next lines?

It will show how easy it is to realize a script to create dummy files
before launching an incremental backup.
Why? Because the scope of this article is showing how fast a backup job can be.

1. The script is composed of four parts (in every box line 1 describes the actions that will be performed after).

#working path
$mypath=”C:\Users\VBR\Documents\NAS-Folder”
Set-Location -Path $mypath
#creating folder to copy to share
$folders_new = New-Item “$((get-date).toString(‘yyyyMMddhhmmss’))” -ItemType directory
Set-Location -Path $folders_new
# Creating 100 files
$baseFile = $rootDir + “base.txt”
$desiredFileSize = 2*10KB
$fileCount = 100
“start” | Out-File -Filepath $baseFile
While ($(Get-ChildItem -path $baseFile).Length -lt $desiredFileSize)
{
$(Get-ChildItem -path $baseFile).Length | Out-File $baseFile -APPEND
}
for($i=1;$i -lt $fileCount;$i++)
{
Copy-Item $baseFile “File-NAS$i.txt”
}
#copy to network share
Set-Location -Path $mypath
$pathtocopy= $folders_new.Name
copy-item -path $pathtocopy -Destination \\ip-address\cifs-destination -Recurse

2. Let’s see how to integrate the script in VBR.

The next pictures will show the Nas Backup job wizard pointing out the main point (picture 3, 4 and 5)

Pictures 1 and 2 show one of my favorite advance options: the possibility to select the file topology to save. For example, protecting the pdf files only. It supports wild-cat character so it’s very flexible and useful.

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From picture 3 to 5, highlighted in yellow the step to set-up the script:

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Pictures 6 and 7 show the result of the job modified in this way.
Please put your attention to the last yellow line where 195 MB of the source data is processed in 20 seconds. (In my small lab it’s a great result !!!)

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Note: If you need to change the script time execution from default 15 mins (900 secs), just add a REG-DWORD named “PreJobScriptTimeoutSec”(Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Veeam\Veeam Backup and Replication). The amount has to be in seconds (Picture 8)

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That’s all folks