Veeam Continuous Data Protection, or CDP, is a technology that allows VMware workloads to achieve near zero RPOs when replicating between ESXi hosts. It does this by integrating into VAIO (VMware API for IO), where the writes are split right…
A short video on how to move to using Linux proxy servers instead of Windows proxy servers after you upgrade to Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 version 8, and are utilizing the new proxy pools. This allows for easy scaling…
A short how to video on easily upgrading from v7 to v8 of VB365 - including moving the standalone proxies into the new proxy pools, which allow for load balanced processing of your backup tasks! You can find the requirements…
Introduction This blog series will cover deploying Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, specifically an advanced deployment. Most are already aware that Veeam is the #1 backup software for Microsoft 365, protecting more users than many other vendors combined! One of…
Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 is about to release version 8! There's a lot of exciting features coming, including immutability to the primary repository, where v7 has immutability on backup copy repositories only. One requirement however is that for either…
A ways back, Synology was kind enough to send me a DS923+ to test out. I've used a DS1817+ in my lab for quite some time now, so a unit with an upgraded CPU was welcome. The first thing I…
Previously on Tim's Tech Thoughts, I used the plugin MiniOrange to have 2 factor authentication required for logging into the WordPress admin. This worked fairly well, however during upgrades I had been accidently locked out more than once. Since I've…
A couple months back, there was a lot of hype around Mastodon and the Fediverse - a de-centralized social platform that some people were heading towards away from Twitter. While I won't be migrating off Twitter, I did want to…
With the release of Veeam Backup and Replication v12 on 2/14/23, there's going to be a lot of upgrades happening! For the installs that use Veeam's CDP (Continuous Data Protection) for sub minute, snapshot-less replication, that's means updating the IO…
Thanks to a recent vBrownbag session with Chris Colotti on Cloudflare Zero Trust, I decided to write up how I use Zero Trust Tunnels instead of a VPN to access my homelab resources. Cloudflare Zero Trust encompasses a couple different…