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Veeam Hidden Feature – Backup Validator

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So the other day I was using the Veeam Backup Extractor Tool, located in the installation folder, when I noticed another .exe file that I hadn’t paid attention to previously.

  • Veeam.Backup.Validator.exe

This a CLI based tool, and does exactly as the name suggests, validates backups.

You can access it by running command prompt;

  •  CD “C:\Program Files\Veeam\Backup and Replication\Backup”
  • Veeam.Backup.Validator.exe and your arguments(to see the full options, see at the bottom)

This is a handy little tool for validating the backup files, and can probably be scripted as well. However unlike the SureBackup feature, it will not guarantee that once the files have been restored, the Virtual Machine’s operating system is intact and in a working condition.

An example of its use

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Veeam v8 – Backup Fails – NFC storage connection is unavailable

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I encountered this issue on a brand new Veeam installation the other day. When running a test backup job.

"Error: NFC storage connection is unavailable, Storage: [stg-datastore-(Number),nfchost-host-(Number),conn:(ServerName)"

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Veeam v8 – Active Directory Restore Wizard in action

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So lets look at one of the best features brought to us in Veeam 8, Active Directory Restore Wizard.

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1. Open up the restore, select application items, and then Microsoft Active Directory

2. Select your VM that you want to pull the data back from, and then your restore point for that VM.

Note: I am actually using a restore point created in Version 7!!!!2014-11-11_11-12-31

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Veeam: High Level End user case study, from an engineer’s perspective

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Sometimes we get so bogged down into the technical details, we forget that some people just want to know about a product and how it’s used, not how to configure it and the advance settings.

This blog post was first wrote for my employers blog by me, but I think it’s a perfect High Level post detailing a customer and how the product met their requirements.

The Company

Working in the financial sector, the company has around 200 on-site employees, projecting to expand up to 300 with a recruitment drive they are planning. After having a new VMware infrastructure implemented and upgrading their Microsoft Servers to the latest and greatest, the backup solution was the next on the upgrade list. Continue reading Veeam: High Level End user case study, from an engineer’s perspective →

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Get-PowerShelling or Remove-JobRole

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Coding, Scripting, Powershelling, etc etc, Dirty words in the mouth of Infrastructure guys across the globe.

When I was in college taking on my computer course, I had two options, Hardware and Networking, or Web Design. I went with my interests and skillsets, hardware and networking.

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Coding to me is something I wasn’t interesting in when I became a geek, I wanted to provide the platforms for you to build and run your apps on, not be the guy building the apps. It looks like I screwed up, Job Security wise and Pay wise.

5 Years ago when I was getting into the IT industry, it was taking a number of days to provision a server ready for application installation and deployment. Now, thanks to virtualisation, this has been reduced to minutes. Something I think I’ll blog about on another day, the changes in the industry as I see it.

Here’s two slides showing this, provided by Joe Baguley (CTO, VMware).

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