Getting started with Veeam Agent for Mac
Background I recently started a new job and with it came a new laptop, a MacBook Pro with Apples M1 chip to be precise. So I thought to myself, this is a great opportunity...
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Veeam bare metal recovery to Synology Virtual Machine Manager
Background What do you do with a Veeam agent backup for some hardware you no longer own, but would like to access the operating system? Restore it some where else of course! This is...
Extra backup protection for Veeam with Synology snapshots
Background In some of my previous blog posts, I have been exploring the functionality and capabilities of a Synology NAS which so far has been storage configuration and testing as well as Synology native...
What is your data protection strategy?
Background I have noticed over the last 12 months or so that ransomware attacks are becoming even more sophisticated in what their attack vector is. The nasty ones will delete common backups files, like...
Veeam Backup for Office 365 – Upgrade to V4
Background With the release of Veeam Backup for Office 365 in the backend of 2019, Veeam has moved the game on in terms of product functionality. Until now, Veeam lacked any kind of integration...
LUV:VUL – What happened to Veeam Instance Licensing?
Background I wrote about Veeam Instance Licensing and it’s pros and cons back in April this year. The premise was great, the execution of it, not so much. It was confusing to work out...
Veeam Instance Licensing. What’s that about then?
Background When Veeam Backup and Replication 9.4 U4 was released in January 2019, it brought with it a new licensing model called Instance licensing. The marketing machine at Veeam would have you believe this...
Error: Failed to find crypto key – Veeam
Background Following an upgrade to Veeam 9.5 U4, some of my back jobs started to fail with the error, “Error: Failed to find crypto key” Solution There was not much info on the...
Sizing backup storage: Veeam for Office 365
Background I recently expanded my Veeam for Office 365 deployment to protect additional organisations but it struck me that I had no idea how much data I needed to protect from Office 365! If this...
Office 365 backup – Do you need it?
Protecting Office 365 A common misconception when moving resources such as Exchange e-mail or SharePoint to Office 365 is that the Microsoft will take care of the data backups for you. Unfortunately, this is...
