Several months ago I came across an old Barracuda 290 backup appliance from a former client that was no longer in use. These old appliances don't generally have a lot of power, but I like to repurpose things for the lab or for experimentation when I can. For instance, I've previously repurposed a Datta ALTO 3 appliance as a Windows 11 workstation that works great as a jump-box to straddle my production and lab environments…
When you reference the Veeam Hardened Repository ISO, you'll note that the word "hardened" is in there. What makes the VHR "hardened"? I've touched on this before, but Veeam makes use of STIG's to harden the OS to the DISA recommendations. One of those functions used to harden the OS is USBGuard. And what is USBGuard? It's a service used to define a list of authorized USB devices that can connect to a machine. In…
I have this client - they're in the manufacturing vertical and utilize me for projects and maintenance of their SCADA environment. Because this is a secured environment, the network is segmented with no internet access for nearly all machines and very restricted access for those that require it. Running Veeam Backup & Replication segmented from the internet is generally no problem and in many ways is even recommended. And it has worked great for years…
Cannot change WebPart ExportMode to ‘All’. WebPart will be skipped (WebPart ID: <guid>) I've been overlooking the above error with the intention to address it (and have attempted a couple times), but never found enough time to dedicate to a final resolution. However, with Veeam releasing Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v8.1 last week, this particular issue has been addressed as noted in KB4091 along with few others which can be found in the v8.1…
While I haven't recently ventured into the world of XenServer and XCP-NG, there have been a lot of requests for Veeam support since the Broadcom takeover of VMware, primary on Reddit but also in the Veeam Community Hub for official support. Yesterday Veeam published KB 4703 providing guidance on how to use the Veeam Agent for Windows and Veeam Agent for Linux with XenServer and XCP-NG when using Xen Orchestra. This article documents how to…
Let's have a quick conversation about a few things you can do -- but probably shouldn't. Eat gas station sushi Leave important tasks for the last minute Believe everything on the internet Date a coworker Get a tattoo of the name of a significant other - at least early in the relationship - especially it it's that coworker Run security-focused VM's like a Veeam Hardened Repository on a NAS Wait, what? Okay, so I've always…
In part one we gave some background of the Veeam VHR history and it's transition from utilizing Ubuntu Linux Server LTS to Rocky Linux, as well as the hardware that we'll be utilizing to support our VHR, and then deployed the VHR ISO to our PowerEdge server. Part two of this series consisted of deploying the VHR ISO to our server. Now in our third and final part, we're going to add the new VHR…
In part one of this three part series, we gave some background of the Veeam VHR history and it's transition from utilizing Ubuntu Linux Server LTS to Rocky Linux, as well as the hardware that we'll be utilizing to support our VHR. And as a reminder, while the VHR does have support, it's currently classified under Veeam's Experimental Support Statement. Downloading and Deploying the VHR ISO The first step of course is to download the…
The History of the Veeam Hardened Repository ISO If you've been in the Veeam game within the past two years, you're probably aware that the Product Development team has been working hard on a turn-key solution that can be used to deploy a Veeam Hardened Repository (VHR) from an ISO. Historically if you wanted to utilize a VHR, you had to deploy a linux server and setup a repository backed by the XFS filesystem to…
When I try to upgrade Veeam, or when I try to apply a new license, I get a prompt about my server being managed by a Veeam Enterprise Manager server like the prompt below. But I don't have one? How can I fix this? This is a question that comes up from time-to-time in the Veeam Community Hub and Veeam Subreddit. Generally, the subject, me in today's example, has a VBR server in place, and…