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Two weeks ago, I upgraded my employer’s Veeam Backup and Replication infrastructure from Version 7 to Version 8 with Update 1. Most aspects of the upgrade went well, and Veeam BR is still a good product. That said, some recent changes to the scheduling components introduced some challenges. Backup Schedule Options When you create backup …
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I’m about to write about randomly staggering your Veeam backups, which is abnormal. Most backup administrators want each and every backup to occur exactly at the same time on the same day. There are several good reasons to have predictable backups. Backups are scheduled to occur after hours when systems are less busy Backups are …
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I enjoy using Microsoft Windows PowerShell. I think it is great that more third-parties are creating PowerShell interfaces to their own products. VMware has vSphere PowerCLI and Pure Storage has its PowerShell Toolkit. This week, I began learning and using Veeam PowerShell to manage my Veeam Backup and Replication servers and jobs. Unfortunately, I’m finding …
This week I updated all of my employer’s Veeam Backup and Replication servers to version 8 update 1. One of the nice features of Veeam BR 8 is its new Forever Forward Incremental Backup method. The FFIB method produces a backup chain that consists of the first full backup and a set of forward incremental …
I recently had a requirement to build a non-persistent VMware View desktop pool that acted as if the linked-clone virtual desktops had static computer names with static IP addresses. The reason was that the vendor of a particular clinical application ties its licensing to both the computer name and its IP address. If they don’t …
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