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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

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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

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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

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Machine learning on your Veeam backups? Sure! via the Data Integration API

Being able to reuse your backup data is a pretty powerful thing. Not only does it allow you be non-impactful to a production system but it also allows you to open up a complete backup chain and perform these tests on any restore point you hold.

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VBO v4 API Organisation UsedRepositories Performance

The API in version 4 of the API appears to have been significantly improved. I have seen dramatic improvement of 300+ seconds per call down to 10s...nice.

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Getting started with the Veeam Data Integration API

The data integration api from Veeam is a powerful way to get access to your backup data and re-use it without affecting production systems. Check this example script out out for getting started with this feature.

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Instant Disk Recovery in Veeam v10

Instant Disk Recovery in Veeam B&R allows you to instantly recovery a disk (or disks) to running virtual machines from the backup environment. Check out how easy it is.

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Get NAS backup sessions detail from the Veeam v10 Enterprise Manager API

Overview of how to fetch NAS backup job sessions using the Veeam API using the new /api/NAS endpoints and an alternate method using the query service + filters

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Get NAS Jobs via the API in Veeam v10 Enterprise Manager

An overview of the responses for the /api/nas/jobs endpoints in Veeam B&R Enterprise Manager

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Veeam v10 API NAS Endpoints Overview

With the introduction of the NAS backup functionality in Veeam B&R v10 there are some new endpoints available in the Enterprise Manager API under /api/nas.

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Setup NAS Backup with Veeam v10

One of the most eagerly awaited features in the Veeam B&R suite is the NAS backup feature. It is finally here and supports SMB and NFS file shares.

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Veeam Replica disk audit using PowerCLI for vSphere

Need to audit your virtual machine disk layouts from your production site vs your replica site? This quick script will get you started.

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Backup for Office365 with VBO

First release of Veeam Backup for Office365 powered backup now integrated into our multi tenant portal.

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JobSession link bug in Rest interface Veeam Office365 Backup

If you fetch the job sessions for a job, the link for "log" is incorrect, have logged with Veeam which will hopefully patched in a future release.

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Veeam Backup for Office 365 REST API - The object has not yet been initialized

Are you getting a weird "Object has not yet been initialized" with a fresh install of Veeam Backup for Office365? Simple solution.

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Trying the new JSON payload super powers in Veeam Update 4

We now know with Veeam U4 you can specify an application/json accept header and have your requests returned as a nice JSON payload which is neat.In a super basic example here

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New TenantType node in CloudTenant Schema with Veeam Update 4

Starting with Veeam U4 and assuming you are logging in with either v=latest or v=v1_4 there are some modifications you will need to make for editing cloud tenants.

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Hotfix for Inoperational RESTful API v1_3 & 1_4 support with Veeam Update 4 RTM

Last week was pretty frustrating, debugging and discovering an issue / new "feature" with JSON support which broke some things. After resolving those I was still seeing having an issue with CloudTenant editing.

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Veeam API JSON Support in Update 4

While testing our integration library and immediately running into issues I discovered some weirdness if the json accept header was specified (anywhere) that some requests failed it got me thinking. What if they now supported json, wouldn't that be nice! No more clunky XML to deal with.

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Node [root] does not exist - Veeam API with Update 4

Fired up some debugging and realised that most of the GET requests looked ok, but any of the POST and PUT requests started throwing HTTP 400 Bad Request Errors.