In Veeam Backup & Replication under "Tape Infrastrukture" i can create media pools and set the option "add tapes from free media pool automatically when more tapes are required". 41057 Topics 280724 Posts Last post Re: Use per-machine backup fi. Architecting, sizing and deploying Veeam's infrastructure is easier as there are fewer factors to consider. It let me chose all the old restore points, as long as the tape hasn't been written over or erased. Here is the full error: Processing MyServerName Error: Unstable connection: unable to transmit data. It is called "Move free media to free pool". Expand the Libraries node and select the needed library. To mark tapes as free: Open the Tape Infrastructure view. Confirmed what HannesK says. But if a tape run out of protection, there is no way back like "move free or unprotected media to the free media pool". » Wed Jun 30, 2021 3:12 pm. The best would be to create a new media set every two weeks (same as your. Integration with Veeam Backup for AWS. Sizing. I already spend some time looking in to this issue but I can't find a solution, so any help would be appreciated. Harvey is right, Veeam B&R relies on the warnings or errors received by the hardware and does not tack the EOL on it's own. Alternatively, you can right-click the selected tapes and choose Inventory. You can administer all operations on tapes from your Veeam console. We have Veeam 9. 7 Replies. On the Key Management tab, select the Enable encryption password loss protection check box. Specify a target mailbox. 1. Solution. A pop-up should appear stating: " Specified host is already added as a tape server to the backup server xyz. We use physical data movers wherever possible, usually retired ESXi hosts, etc. Step 7. Immediately after each VM-Backup a copy "Backup to Tape"-Job selecting the Backup Job as source is run. Maybe adding this extreme old Tapes to "Free Media. Named. After the cataloging of a tape is finished, it is moved to the media pool “Imported”. NEO Tape Migration Using Veeam Backup & Replication Technical Brief 10401091-001 ©2022 Overland. If a tape job locks multiple drives simultaneously for parallel processing, and one or more drives require cleaning, all drives wait until the cleaning is finished. To select what backup files you want to archive: Click Add and select Backup jobs or Backup repositories. User Guide for Microsoft Hyper-V > Tape Devices Support > Media Pools > Media Pools > Creating Media Pools > Step 5. If tapes are stored in the library, they can still be erased in case of a hacker attack. Veeam can use a File to Tape Job to backup specific folders or Files to Tape. Specifies the array of tape libraries. Allowing for the whole base 10 / base 2 argument, this is what I’d expect. Not a support forum! R&D Forums. Choose backups to archive. The following predefined media pools can be created: Free — a media pool containing empty tapes. On This Page. To run the Restore from Tape wizard, do either of the following: Open the Home tab and click Restore on the ribbon. With support for a fourth hypervisor in a supported public beta, Veeam Backup & Replication v11a offers reliable integrated backup for Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) 4. To work around this issue, perform LTO9 New Media Initialization Wizard within the HPE MSL2024 or 1/8 G2 Autoloader before using the new LTO9 tape with Veeam Backup & Replication. [Tape. Finish working with the wizard. 19. Alternatively, you can right-click the files and. Select the files and click Restore Files from Tape on the ribbon. Integration with Veeam Backup for Red Hat Virtualization. So Veeam thinks, DPM Tapes are all the same media set and that breaks things one the first DPM Tape was read. Navigate to the list of tapes either under the Media Pools or under the Libraries > LibraryName node > Media > Online. At the Source Tapes step of the wizard, select source tapes to copy. Per the LTO barcode standard, a barcode that begins with the prefix CLN is considered a cleaning tape. Choose Tape > Restore Files. Protect data for a particular time interval. * Retention Policy maintenance. You can also view tapes under the Tape Infrastructure. I recommend using "Per-Machine Backup Files". Own, control, backup and recover all your data, anywhere in the hybrid cloud. Navigate to the list of tapes either under Media Pools or under Libraries > LibraryName node > Media > Online. The labels use the uppercase letters A through Z and the numbers 0 through 9, for example: ABC123L8, where ABC123 is the volume. Try in Lab. Re: recover tapes removed from catalog by mistake. The worn-out cleaning tapes are moved to the Retired media pool automatically. cloud backup (online backup): Cloud backup, also known as online backup , is a strategy for backing up data that involves sending a copy of the data over a proprietary or public network to an off-site server . At the Restore Mode step of the wizard, choose the necessary restore mode and backup proxy to transfer VM data: Choose a restore mode: Select Restore to original location to restore VMs with their initial settings and to their original location. Choose the target media pool from the list. remove/delete, are greyed out. VBR seems to always take new tapes from the pool "free" even if there are expired tapes in the pool (let´s say pool A). Ok, I'll try that out. Veeam provides native tape support that is fully integrated into Veeam Backup & Replication. However, it seems we can't delete single VBKs from the Files tab or the Files pane, the latter only showing a "Restore from Tape" option in the context menu. For VM and agent backups, you need copy the entire backup first to a repository before you can do a file level restore. With "Per-Job Backup Files", you have to copy back the entire VM job to restore single files. You can administer all operations on tapes from your Veeam Backup & Replication console. This seems to be a (severe) bug, which leads to throwing all backups on disk away! After upgrading to V9 and rescanning the repository, the items were greyed out and could be removed. Select tapes you want to protect and click Protect on the ribbon. 4. Les bandes sont l’un des supports les plus souvent choisis pour archiver les sauvegardes. After that, you should make tape job use this cassette. Not entire VMs. To restore files or NDMP volumes backed up to tape, use the Files from Tape Restore wizard. You can store backups of your on-premises workloads on Azure Blob using Veeam Backup & Replication, allowing you to use Azure Storage's pay-per-use model to easily scale your backup infrastructure with durable, cost-effective storage. 1TB - 1. As Veeam Backup & Replication tracks and orchestrates all backups written to tape, Veeam. Cannot create a shadow copy of the volumes containing writer's data. Veeam Backup & Replication supports Linear. To remove one or more tapes from the catalog: Open the Tape Infrastructure view. Default port used to communicate with Veeam Hyper-V Integration Service. by Shestakov » Fri Apr 24, 2015 9:48 am. by Fegume » Tue Oct 13, 2020 7:26 am. 5 Star 72%. Remember to add additional resources, if the backup server is responsible for multiple. Choose the target media pool from the list. This just tells me if it is or is not expired, and works great for creating reports to return tapes from offsite: Get-VBRTapeMedium | Where-Object. Veeam Backup & Replication processes VM data in cycles. This issue occurs due to the lengthy initialization process for new LTO-9 tapes, which occurs when the tape is inserted into the tape drive for the first time. The longevity of tapes is the main reason why tape backups are still widely used by large enterprises. Tue Nov 21, 2023 7:46 pm. Its metadata is deleted from the Veeam database – and this can be recreated. The job went into a waiting (Add tape to media pool Wed). Detailed Description. lastwritetime (tape medium) that indicates the time tape was written last time, the second one is . 5 Update 3a and earlier: when you restore an entire folder from tape, Veeam Backup & Replication restores all files that have ever existed in the folder and been archived to tape. Physically change the label on the tape. by km5yq » Tue Jun 10, 2014 4:04 pm. Re: Tape wear. Imported — a media pool containing non-empty tapes. This is exactly the problem I ran into. Scenario 1: Veeam B&R and StarWind VTL are located on the same host. If that's cleaning tape - check unrecognized system media pool. Description. If your tape is write-protected and you want to write data to this tape, you must eject the tape from the drive and drag the write protection switch off. The recovery ISO is also on that host. Y ou can add source jobs to tape jobs at any moment:From my initial attempt, it seemed to write every full backup for each backup job in the backup repository. This gives us the additional benefits not only of SAN direct backups, but also solves your problem as well. Get-VBRBackupSession -Name "Backup Copy (Incremental)" Example 3. by RuaanP » Fri Nov 10, 2023 9:32 am. To back up your Oracle server, create a new backup job in Veeam Backup & Replication: Add the required VMs: Specify your backup repository: During the backup process, Veeam Backup & Replication connects to VMs via the network or the VMware VIX channel (Windows-based VMs only) and examines VM content. This is the description of an unusual scenario where Backup Job Files (. LTO3 or later tape libraries (including VTL) and standalone drives are supported. In the working area, select the necessary machine in the backup or VM replica and click Application Items > Microsoft Active Directory on the ribbon. (Exporting logs may take a while. If i start the restore wizard, those expired tapes are not listed. You can use this media pool to replenish user-created pools with new tapes when needed. Failed to upload disk. Veeam Software, the leader in Backup solutions that deliver Cloud Data Management, today announced that British Columbia's Forest Practices Board, an. They need further identification by user. Veeam Backup & Replication. Select a tape you want to verify and click Verify on the ribbon. The only way i found is to select the. To overcome this issue, after you upgrade to Veeam Backup & Replication 11, you must obtain in the Veeam Customer Support Portal a new instance. You can administer all operations on tapes from your Veeam Backup & Replication console. Bandsicherungstipps vom Veeam-Support. Navigate to the list of tapes either under Media Pools or under Libraries > LibraryName node > Media > Online. 119 Views. 2021 03:18:19 :: TapeDrive alert: The tape cartridge has reached the end of its calculated useful life:. Feature Capabilities. To eject a tape: Open the Tape Infrastructure view. Technology used in the product optimizes data transfer and resource consumption, which helps to minimize. Tape appears to be one of the most widely. Tape is moved to Retired Media Pool when drive/library instructs a backup server that media has become unusable and has to be taken out of service. Backup & Recovery Monitoring & Analytics Disaster Recovery Orchestration Hybrid Cloud Ransomware & Data Security Data Reuse Governance & Compliance DRaaS & BaaS. It is completely separate from the primary backups. Tape bookshelf logs view that drive required cleaning a couple of times on that day. Create media pool. 5 update 4 In the daily media pool I have an expired tape that is also in the offsite vault. Choose the target media pool from the list. When your contract is renewed, you have to update your license. Options. Not a support forum! Skip to content. But all Tapes on "online". Alternatively, you can right-click selected tape and select Export from the shortcut menu. To rebuild the entire server, I first do a Veeam Endpoint restore on the host. As for general tape media picking logic: - Retired (that can be overwritten by retention) - Any free media in the media pool - Any free media in the free pool (if option to add free media from free pool is selected). Now you’d like to configure a backup task for your virtual Domain Controller. We use Veeam to offload archive data to tape periodically. Fixed it right up. Send feedback. Re: Re-run tape jobs. Click Latest to archive only the latest backup chain to tape. Other Tape pools cannot add them when they need additional tapes…. We just began using an IBM Tape Autoloader with LTO8 tapes. SyncDisk}. To add more libraries, click Manage. R&D Forums. Media Pools are created by user and contain tapes for backups. by carl. The media pool allots tapes for writing data according to the following. Download Trial. After you insert the tape back to the drive, you must inventory the tape to mark it as writable in the Veeam Backup & Replication database. The full backup (done last night) reports total transferred is around 1. 5. Encryption works at the source side. The latest version supported by Veeam Backup & Replication 12 is LTO-9. It’s also being used during importing backups or mapping. Afterwards choose the VM and restore point you want to export as a standalone full backup. Veeam Availability Suite Veeam is an industry leader within the data-protection market. Choose the vault you need. Tape Device MSL2024 (using LT7 Ultrium drives)working fine and will backup using tapes if brand new or I have set an "Erase" on a previous tape marked as "Bad Media". So i'm not able to directly restore a vm from this expired tape to the vmware infrastructure. In SVM-scoped configuration, add each cluster node to the backup user interface on their own data LIF IP/DNS address. Microsoft Active Directory Restore. The method documented in this article is only to be used for changing the Name/FQDN/IP of a managed server—specifically, those servers listed under the Managed Servers node of the Backup Infrastructure view. To restore backups from tape, use the Restore Backup from Tape to. These tapes cannot have retention period, and for this reason you cannot place them to the same media pool with the overwritable tapes. The media ID defines the tape type. Navigate to the list of tapes either under Media Pools or under Libraries > LibraryName node > Media > Online. Save settings. The user interface indicates on states of the tape infrastructure components. by piratefish0815 » Mon Nov 13, 2023 7:53 am. the tape 7 was marked as retired. The tape that you selected when launching the wizard is added to the list of tapes to copy by default. Navigate to the list of tapes either under Media Pools or under Libraries > LibraryName node > Media > Online. 2 posts • Page 1 of 1. To perform such a backup, navigate to Home and choose Export Backup. The worn-out cleaning tapes are moved to the Retired media pool automatically. Integration with Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure. Your direct line to Veeam R&D. Thanks. You will need to perform the following steps: Run Get-VBRJob to get the backup job. Footnote added about Veeam Ready – Object with Immutability partner category; 15 Feb 2023. Step 2. While this operation is happening, the tape drive is locked and unavailable until the. at least it does in our environment. Media pools are groups of media to which backup data can be written. Whether the device is unprepared or completely unfamiliar with the tape deck being inserted, this act of improper insertion can result in a tape backup failing. If your tape is write-protected and you want to write data to this tape, you must eject the tape from the drive and drag the write protection switch off. The source Data Mover retrieves data from the source servers and target Data Mover sends data to tape. When using Veeam Backup & Replication 11 or 11a before P20211211, Tape Backup jobs and other tape-related tasks may fail for up to 15-30 minutes after a new. For WORM tapes, you need to create separate media pools. may have. Watch. Only tapes stored in a safe place can be considered an air-gapped backup. Case 2. In library failover on the following events: library is offline and all drives are busy. Tape encryption. Getting to Know Veeam Backup & Replication. Right click on the tape and select “Restore Content”. This is also known as “Node-scoped NDMP”. Cloudian, Object First, Pure Storage and Scality are the four initial object storage targets for version 12 of Veeam Backup and Recovery, which has added the ability to back up directly to object storage on-premises. By default, Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows retains outdated backups for 30 days. To create a backup to tape job, follow the next steps: Launch the New Backup To Tape Job wizard. In the working area, right-click the tapes you want to move and select Move to Vault. You can load tape media to the library and hit inventory in the library menu. Tape States Indicators. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. veremin wrote: Tape is moved to Retired Media Pool when drive/library instructs a backup server that media has become unusable and has to be taken out of service. Nejlepší moderní ochrana dat. You'll want a physical server and a SAS library, we've used Quantum and Spectralogic with. Launch the Copy Tapes wizard. Open the Tape Infrastructure view. Standalone ESXi hosts are not supported. But Veeam seems not touching this old Backups and only cares for the "2 Weeks Protection" using always the same Tapes. To. confidence in the face of disaster or cyberattacks across the hybrid cloud. e. MySQL. Veeam provides native tape support that is fully integrated into Veeam Backup & Replication. Veeam Software Overview **For latest information on this product please use HPE Veeam Software QuickSpecs** HPE Complete – Veeam Software. Media pools are logical containers created in Veeam Backup & Replication to organize and administer tapes. Integration with Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV. We strongly recommend that you set retention policy for outdated backups to 7 days or more to prevent unwanted data loss. Slow backup with new LTO-8. Re: Secondary Backup to Tape with B&R Community Edition. 2. It will increase the allocated quota by 512MB each 15 seconds. To eject a tape: Open the Tape Infrastructure view. Using tape as a backup target. Mon Nov 20, 2023 10:59 am. Image-level backups can be used for different types of restore, including Instant Recovery, entire VM restore, VM file recovery. 14-03-2016 08:32:16 :: Failed to prepare to start new tape session: StartSessionTape failed StartSessionTape failed Tape positioning error: An attempt to access data before the beginning-of-medium marker failed. pool B) requests a tape, there are no free tapes left. Installing Veeam Backup & Replication. If you have done a „File to Tape“ Job with the file server as a source for the job, then you will be able to restore single. VBK, . 22 in combination with an HP MSL4048. 5. Change tape name and description as required. 3. Try in Lab. Top. It shouldn't be a problem overwriting itself if the job doesn't exceed the amount of data its able to store. Retired state of tape doesn't have anything to do with a free space. Other files will be skipped. None of the files or subdirectories contained within will be backed up. Discard the old tape. In former case, most likely it will not be possible to restore data. Instant Recovery to VMware vSphere. The tape job addresses the media pool that is set for this job as target. Per Veeam documentation I should be able to choose a specific file to restore from the Objects to Restore screen. For WORM tapes, you need to create separate media pools. To restore a single mailbox, folder or item, do the following: Launch the Restore wizard. If the tapes are online in your tape device, Veeam Backup & Replication will get the needed data automatically. Tapes are marked as "Expired". Applies to Platform : VMware, Hyper-V Product Edition : Standard, Enterprise, Enterprise Plus, Veeam Universal License Syntax Remove-VBRTapeMediaPool -MediaPool. Example 2. Backup to tape for NAS backups is a secondary backup as it additionally secures already backed up file share data. Select between higher-performance local targets or longer-term object storage in the Capacity Tier to meet your recovery and cost objectives. )The provided SAP HANA pre/post freeze scripts are available on GitHub and do also support optional transaction log purging. Step 1. Long-term archiving and compliance are listed as primary reasons for using tape. It represents that tape read/write cycle count during that specific tape drive operation was lost (so, say, the tape might be counted as retired slightly later that expected due this counts being. By default, Veeam B&R performs tape devices rescan each 30 seconds, which makes it temporarily (for the duration of the rescan operation) lock the device. At the Retention step of the wizard, specify the retention settings and offline media tracking options for the tapes in this media pool. Veeam Data Mover on the gateway server. The script will prepare the HANA database by requesting a database snapshot. 6) The tape job writes the data on tape. Even though his case is still under the investigation, kindly, open your own one and provide support team with the. Combining them together, you can the date when the tape will be overwritten. 0. Location: Baar, Switzerland. If not, it might be worth while to look into your retention/past backups. Taylor, The way you remove files is not recommended, because as you've already noticed you still have restore points available in the UI. Main Menu; Navigation Pane; Ribbon and Tabs; Views; Working Area; Job Filter; Footer; Changing Color Theme; Restore Points Icons; Hypervisor Infrastructure Icons; Job Priorities; Deployment. Curtis Preston, TechTarget executive editor and independent backup expert, answers common questions about reusing backup tapes in this Q&A. Veeam Backup & Replication provides advanced statistics about the data flow efficiency and lets you identify bottlenecks in the data transmission process. SGalbincea • 6 yr. Viewing Data on Tapes. The restored backup. Own, control, back up and recover all your data, anywhere, empowering you to: Remove risk to your backups with comprehensive data security. RETIRED: Retired products sold prior to the November 1, 2015 separation of Hewlett-Packard Company into Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company and HP Inc. Tape Devices Support. Retired 'Cloud Admiral'. 4. The user interface indicates on states of the tape infrastructure components. 20150508 » Mon Nov 20, 2023 1:41 am. Today Veeam Tape Backup shows the following Warning : 02. It is recommended that you use tape devices with original equipment manufacturer (OEM) drivers. Donate to Goodwill. To go one step further, allow me to select the tape so I could verify if the tape is good. Alternatively, you can right-click selected tapes and select Erase. On the Home tab, click Tape Job and select Backups. Specify Retention Settings. After you insert the tape back to the drive, you must inventory the tape to mark it as writable in the Veeam Backup & Replication database. 2. The tape is about a year old. Veritas vs Veeam Veritas vs Acronis Veritas vs Microsoft See All Alternatives. Mon Nov 13, 2023 9:50 am. When i look to the properties of the retired Tape i see that it has 40 write and o read cycles . Hello, since a couple of weeks, we had one LTO7-media with a barcode (let's say TT0001L7) residing in Retired area under Media Pools of Tape Infrastructure. To achieve better performance and load balancing it is necessary to provide sufficient RAM and CPU resources to Veeam components. Backup Server. Unfortunately Veeam B&R does not provide such functionality. Ejects a tape from a drive. This is about case 03514202. Your direct line to Veeam R&D. Veeam can see the cleaning cardridge in B&R. Select the Backups node in the inventory pane. 29. Alternatively, you can right-click the files and. it seems to be Ok for a week or two. Instances are units (or tokens) that you can use to protect your virtual, physical or cloud-based workloads. Discard the old tape. Short Description Moves a tape to media pool or vault. Member. Open the Tape Infrastructure view. During Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager installation, the. The tapes where used by Backup Exec before and should now be used by Veeam B&R tape job. Send feedback. I didn't want to spend that much down-time on the tape library to fix one bogus tape, so instead I did this: 1. exe. Tape Devices Support. Open the Tape Infrastructure view. by veremin » Mon Sep 22, 2014 8:02 am. Select a tape you want to verify and click Verify on the ribbon. Veeam B&R /// Retired media in tape infrastructure. Re: Deleting backup files after they are written to tape. The recovery wizard will drive you thru a few steps: Backup location. To restore files or NDMP volumes backed up to tape, use the Files from Tape Restore wizard. 5. To restore files from tape, follow the next steps: Launch the Restore Backup from Tape to Repository wizard. This method uses a feature built-in to Veeam Backup & Replication that seamlessly switches between repositories when old and new repositories contain the same backup files for the job (VBM, VBK, VIB, VRB). Další informace. Short Description Removes a media pool. Getting back to your request, we already have built-in retry mechanism inside GFS backup to tape job. Veeam Backup & Replication is a comprehensive data protection and disaster recovery solution. To erase tapes: Open the Tape Infrastructure view. Open the Tape Infrastructure view. When I delete a VM, I’ll. 7) The cleaning process usually takes several minutes. 3 on W2019. 1 environment with a Dell TL2000 Tape drive connected with SAS to a Windows Server 2012 physical server. You can restore only backups of VMware and Hyper-V virtual machines from tape to infrastructure. So to control said interval, check with library vendor! /Cheers! Top. if it fails, i could try the tape in a different drive, or a different tape in the same drive. Alternatively, you can right-click selected tapes and select Erase. Create a PowerShell script, name it “automate_retention. These tapes cannot have retention period, and for this reason you cannot place them to the same media pool with the overwritable tapes. After that, you should make tape job use this cassette. Disables overwrite protection. . Open the Home view, right-click the Jobs node and select Tape Job > Backups to Tape. Number of restore points for this test limited to 3 in the job definition. The tape library alerts Veeam Backup & Replication on a drive that requires cleaning. If i go to Tape Infrastructure -> Media Pool - select on of the expired Tapes, i still can see which backup files (VM Backups) are on this tape. To move the tapes manually: Open the Tape Infrastructure view. Thanks. Hinsichtlich Backup-Speicherstrategien empfiehlt Veeam, die anfängliche Backup-Kette kurz zu halten (7–14 Punkte) und eine Allzweckfestplatte zu verwenden, von der aus Wiederherstellungen in sehr kurzer Zeit vorgenommen werden können. Tape Servers - User Guide for VMware vSphere.