Veeam B&R 9.5 U2 – Failed to index guest file system

Since Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5 Update 2 had been released, Veeam’s support received this error from some end-users: “Failed to Index guest file system. VSSControl: Index Failed” during backing up (Veeam B&R 9.5 U2 – Failed to index guest file system). The issue is confirmed (upgraded from Veeam B&R 9.5 Update 1 to Update 2), the hotfix for Veeam B&R v9.5 u2 (104602) is available through support and is planned to be included into one of the next updates (Veeam B&R 9.5 Update 3).

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HPE Catalyst technology as Veeam Replication source!

Since Veeam B&R v9, there is a support of HPE StoreOnce Catalyst storage. HPE StoreOnce Catalyst integration improves the time it takes to boot a VM from backup file residing on StoreOnce about two times comparing to Instant VM Recovery from backup files on a StoreOnce NAS Share. This post is about using a Catalyst store as a replication source, Veeam ‘s documentation does not mention it in scenarios. Basically, it does not explain the automatic election algorithm of a Gateway server during a replication job (Veeam Help Center).

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Vembu BDR Suite v3.8.0 GA release!

Last week, Vembu BDR v3.8 Suite has been released. Here a post contains the added/enhanced features of the new version. Vembu BDR Suite serves the purpose to be one of the most comprehensive, simple and affordable backup & disaster recovery solutions for the small & medium businesses. Vembu can backup VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Physical Servers, Workstations, Exchange Items, SharePoint Items, SQL Items, Office365, G Suite, etc. – and they can back that up on-site, off-site, or even to the cloud – not to mention that most of this is done within a single UI.


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Veeam Backup & Replication v10 – 4 major features

In the upcoming Veeam Availability Suite v10 release (Veeam Backup & Replication 10 and Veeam One v10), Veeam announced some new interesting features. First, based on actual v10 features readiness, Veeam is moving some of them into 9.5 Update 3, so that they don’t have to sit and wait until they are done implementing the last feature. This means we are going to get some of the v10 goodness much sooner. Until awaiting the release, here is a review of Veeam Backup & Replication v10 with the following 4 major features…

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Interviewed by LeMagIT – Veeam v10

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I was interviewed by @LeMagIT about Veeam Availability Suite v10 during VeeamON New Orleans. This is a french IT website intended for IT Manager and CIO. The topic is “Veeam: Cloud Backup &nd Business Continuity Plan”. Basically, the article is written in French but it’s a good way to learn a beautiful language.

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