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Multi-tenant (VCSP) Self-service restore using Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v6
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Multi-tenant (VCSP) Self-service restore using Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v6

With the launch of Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 came the release of a self-service restore portal.As a service provider it has been on our roadmap for a while to build out

  • Ben Young
    Ben Young
7 min read
I am speaking (twice) at VeeamON 2022 - come have a listen! (in person or virtual)
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I am speaking (twice) at VeeamON 2022 - come have a listen! (in person or virtual)

I am super excited to announce that I will be speaking at VeeamON this year, in fact I have TWO sessions. The best part, they will be in-person which is my first in

  • Ben Young
    Ben Young
2 min read
InfluxDB  max-series-per-database limit exceeded
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InfluxDB max-series-per-database limit exceeded

If you are writing a bunch of data you may come across this error in your InfluxDB logs... or... notice via your visualisation tools that data is missing.Well the latter occurred to

  • Ben Young
    Ben Young
1 min read
A look at the enhanced Veeam VBO v6 Restore Session API - Who restored that VBO Data part 2
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A look at the enhanced Veeam VBO v6 Restore Session API - Who restored that VBO Data part 2

I posted a couple of weeks ago about different ways a customer could get visibility into who was restoring data with the global admin account when the backups are hosted with a service

  • Ben Young
    Ben Young
6 min read
A look at the web api throttles in Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v6 REST API (Token endpoint)
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A look at the web api throttles in Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v6 REST API (Token endpoint)

Upgrading to VBO v6 here and testing it before we push to production, immediately noticed that some of my integration tests were failing, which was weird as some were working and it was

  • Ben Young
    Ben Young
6 min read
Who restored that Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 Data?! A look at what a Service provider can provider clients in a multi-tenant environment
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Who restored that Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 Data?! A look at what a Service provider can provider clients in a multi-tenant environment

When customers restore data out of their Backup for Microsoft 365 tenancy that we host as a Service Provider in our multi-tenant environment, often they want to keep the security team happy in

  • Ben Young
    Ben Young
5 min read
Veeam Job Disk Usage Report and Alert when threshold reached
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Veeam Job Disk Usage Report and Alert when threshold reached

Need to monitor Veeam jobs and their disk usage? There are a few reasons why you may need this - for me I wanted to have alert when a job was over a

  • Ben Young
    Ben Young
1 min read
Vanguard Class of 2022 - Social and Desktop Images

Vanguard Class of 2022 - Social and Desktop Images

2022 Veeam Vanguard design has dropped, social header banners and desktop backgrounds. Enjoy!

  • Ben Young
    Ben Young
1 min read
Veeam Enterprise Manager failing Data Collection - Max Credential Length, SQL Exception
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Veeam Enterprise Manager failing Data Collection - Max Credential Length, SQL Exception

I had an Enterprise Manager instance start failing to collect data from the B&R server. We rely on these APIs for customers to report on Backup job status, restore capability and

  • Ben Young
    Ben Young
5 min read
I am a Veeam Vanguard again in 2022
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I am a Veeam Vanguard again in 2022

Vanguard intakes only happen once a year and you typically submit your application in December and it takes a couple of months for the team at Veeam to process all of the applications

  • Ben Young
    Ben Young
2 min read
CarPlay or Android Auto Veeam Dashboard - Concept
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CarPlay or Android Auto Veeam Dashboard - Concept

I was stuck in a bit of traffic yesterday and I got thinking how lacking the CarPlay and Android Auto eco system really is. Most people really just use it for maps and

  • Ben Young
    Ben Young
2 min read
Getting started with Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v6
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Getting started with Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v6

The Veeam VBO v6 release is one that is highly anticipated by the market since it was announced mid 2021 as it includes a number of new features as well as a bunch

  • Ben Young
    Ben Young
11 min read
Perform first-class disk restore using Veeam VBR API
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Perform first-class disk restore using Veeam VBR API

Let's take a look at the new restore endpoints in the Veeam Backup and Replication API - For clarity, I am not talking about the Enterprise Manager API but the new  api attached

  • Ben Young
    Ben Young
8 min read
Creating a Christmas Cracker alarm dashboard for VeeamONE
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Creating a Christmas Cracker alarm dashboard for VeeamONE

VeeamONE allows you fire a script when alarms are triggered so given the time of year for the last Veeam User Group of the year I have created a Christmas themed dashboard and

  • Ben Young
    Ben Young
5 min read
Salesforce Backup with Veeam
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Salesforce Backup with Veeam

#VeeamOnUpdate 2021 was just broadcast - you can still register then watch at veeamon.com - one of the new products that was just announced was Veeam Backup for Salesforce which is due

  • Ben Young
    Ben Young
1 min read
Veeam Instant Recovery direct from Object Storage
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Veeam Instant Recovery direct from Object Storage

Instant Recovery is one of those technologies that Veeam keeps iterating on and it still blows my mind how capable, powerful and relevant this technology is today. I have blogged about some of

  • Ben Young
    Ben Young
6 min read
Veeam Sessions at VMworld 2021 (and plant a tree!)

Veeam Sessions at VMworld 2021 (and plant a tree!)

Hey, did you know vmworld is running virtually again in 2021 from October 5th to 7th? It's free by the way.Also did you know they will be planting a 🌲 for every attendee

  • Ben Young
    Ben Young
3 min read
Automate tenant creation using the Veeam Service Provider Console API
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Automate tenant creation using the Veeam Service Provider Console API

Let me show you how in 2 simple web requests you can easily automate your Veeam Service Provider Console tenant creation through the power of APIs.

  • Ben Young
    Ben Young
5 min read
Instant Database Recovery with Veeam - Help the SWAG store is down!
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Instant Database Recovery with Veeam - Help the SWAG store is down!

We all know how much our industry loves swag right? What happens when someone accidentally deletes/corrupts/runs an unfavourable query on the production database? Lucky we were backing up the database server

  • Ben Young
    Ben Young
5 min read
Find stale disks on Veeam Replicas using PowerShell
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Find stale disks on Veeam Replicas using PowerShell

When you have a lot of operators in your virtual environment, in our case via the customer self service portal production virtual machines that are replicated have disk layouts that change and become

  • Ben Young
    Ben Young
1 min read
Extracting Veeam Compression and Dedupe Ratios from Backup using Powershell
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Extracting Veeam Compression and Dedupe Ratios from Backup using Powershell

I found myself recently wanting to pull out a report from a Veeam backup job to get the Deduplication and Compression ratios for a service review that was being completed around the true

  • Ben Young
    Ben Young
1 min read
Deploying Rancher to manage a Kubernetes cluster
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Deploying Rancher to manage a Kubernetes cluster

Now that we have a cluster up and running (see part 1) and some persistent NFS storage (part 2) it is time to deploy Rancher so I have a nice management interface for

  • Ben Young
    Ben Young
4 min read
Removing Rancher from a cluster
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Removing Rancher from a cluster

As I have been playing around with a few Kubernetes products i have been needing to remove these as I go along. If you need to delete rancher from your cluster here is

  • Ben Young
    Ben Young
1 min read
Macbook toolset build

Macbook toolset build

This is really a living document for myself that will continue to be updated as I add things to my mbp. I wish I had done this the last time I set one

  • Ben Young
    Ben Young
1 min read
Persistent storage class in Kubernetes backed by Synology NFS

Persistent storage class in Kubernetes backed by Synology NFS

Now that we have a cluster up and running (see part 1) I wanted to add a storage class for  workloads to dynamically request and provision storage as required.I have a Synology

  • Ben Young
    Ben Young
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