It’s official, I’m joining the green side: Veeam. After being in the hosting business for 4-5 years as a system engineer doing several aspects of the job I will now be joining Veeam as one of the system engineers. This is a great opportunity for me and I’m very happy to be joining them. I know they have a great team and I already know some of them from even before I joined and they are great people. I’m really…
The cat is finally out of the bag. Veeam has already announced 7 features for their upcoming release in Q3. They have been teasing everyone with 2 additional features whom nobody would ever guess. It was kept a secret for a long time but they finally announced them! WAN replication for Backup Copy Jobs Backup from storage snapshots Let’s take a look at them a little closer. Keep in mind that this information is subject to change before the final…
Veeam has announced their sixth feature for version 7 on Backup & Replication: Enhanced 1-Click Restore! Since version 6, 1-Click Restore has made it easy for users to recover lost or corrupted files. In version 7, Veeam is extending 1-Click Restore to include self-service recovery of individual VMs. 1-Click restore in Veeam Backup & Replication v7 gives you the capabilities you need for self-service recovery: An easy interface for finding and quickly recovering individual VMs and guest files Delegation settings…
About a week ago Veeam released a new patch for Veeam Backup & Replication 6.5 (build number: 6.5.0.144). Currently there is no KB page (yet) but you can gain the patch by opening a support case and the patch will be provided using their support FTP. This patch contains no big chances, just some resolved issues. UPDATE: The KB page is now live; http://www.veeam.com/kb1751. General Application-aware image processing may cause Windows Server 2012 Domain Controller to stop booting if virtual…
Veeam has announced their fifth feature for version 7 on Backup & Replication: Archive to tape! Everyone thinks tape is dead but it seems Veeam received this request a lot so they added a new tool for it. Archive to Tape in Veeam Backup & Replication v7 supports virtual tape libraries (VTLs), tape libraries and standalone drives. Backups to tape gives you the ability to archive Veeam backups produced by specific jobs to tape, or you can choose to archive…