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Veeam v7 Features Announcement

  Today, Veeam released all of it’s product enhancements for version 7, which will be released later this summer.  I am excited to implement some of these new features for my clients!  Here’s the list: vCloud Director Support Using the vCD API, Veeam will display the vCD infrastructure directly in Veeam Backup & Replication™, backup [...]

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Veeam Job fails after upgrade to vSphere 5.1

Now that vSphere 5.1 is been out a little while, there are more and more upgrades happening.  One problem that I run across while upgrading is that the Veeam backup job fails the next morning if you aren’t aware of what happens. During the upgrade to vSphere 5.1, the ESXi servers now have a different [...]

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Veeam Encounter – Part 1

I’ve been using various products along the way to backup Virtual Machines in VMware Environments. However, it wasn’t until mid 2011 that I was really introduced to Veeam.  So, I figured I would share my experience. At my previous job, we were to treat all VMs as physical machines – installing a backup agent inside [...]

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Re-register Microsoft VSS – Failed Backups

Recently, I had a Windows 2008 R2 server, running Backup Exec, that was constantly failing during snapshot processing backing up the system state. The backups would show the following error: AOFO: Initialization failure on: “System$State”. Advanced Open File Option used: Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS). V-79-10000-11226 – VSS Snapshot error. The Microsoft Volume Shadow [...]

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