Oct 27

Critical OpenSSL Vulnerability version 3.0

Updated (October 27th, 2022): List of vendors and software affected by the OpenSSL vulnerability here.

Critical OpenSSL Vulnerability version 3.0 and above: OpenSSL has just announced a critical vulnerability in version 3.x. This access vulnerability requires access to private keys and/or risks remote machine access (RCE). Vulnerabilities that can be easily exploited remotely to compromise server private keys or where remote code execution is considered likely in common situations. The patched version 3.0.7 will be released on November 1st following OpenSSL. OpenSSL 3.0.7 update to fix Critical CVE out next Tuesday 1300-1700UTC. Does not affect versions before 3.0.

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Oct 27

Veeam v12 Linux Without SSH And SUDO

In Veeam B&R v11, Veeam introduced the ability to build your own immutable (Veeam Immutable Backup), hardened backup repositories on Linux. In the upcoming Veeam Availability Suite v12 release, Veeam announced some new features. Here’s a blog post about Linux permissions management in v12.

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Oct 26

Hardened Repository in Veeam v12

In Veeam B&R v11, Veeam introduced the ability to build your own immutable (Veeam Immutable Backup), hardened backup repositories. This can be accomplished using any Linux server with storage and the XFS file system. As a reminder, immutability in this context means, a backup file cannot be changed, altered, or deleted without having root access within the Linux host before the defined timespan has passed. Here’s a blog post about news and changes of Hardened Repository in Veeam B&R v12.

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Oct 26

Wasabi Object Storage Usage with Veeam B&R v12

Hi, I met Drew Schlussel (Senior Director, Product Marketing @ Wasabi) during the VeeamSummit100 2022. He shared some interesting information between Veeam v12 and Wasabi. Here’s a blog post about the new integration offered by Wasabi with Veeam Backup & Replication v12.

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Oct 26

VeeaMover in v12

In the upcoming Veeam Availability Suite v12 release, Veeam announced some new features. Move Backup is probably one of the most important features upcoming in Veeam B&R v12 is the VM Move or Copy feature. Veeam has designed a new VeeaMover technology around Block Cloning with ReFS (Windows) and XFS (Linux). Customers who deploy Repositories that use some form of Block Cloning can now move their backup data around without worrying about losing space savings with Block Cloning (rehydrating). You can move a Backup Job from one Repository to another and the Block Cloning is maintained! You can also move individual VMs from one Backup Job to another without losing previous Backup chain dat. Here’s an overview of VeeaMover in v12.

Veeam Availability Suite 12

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