Backup

As I sit down reflecting on 4 years as a Veeam Vanguard, I’m filled with a sense of gratitude for what lies ahead in year five. Being a part of the Veeam Vanguard program has been an incredible experience, both personally and professionally, and it has played a significant role …

Introduction and why I Supercharge Excel with ChatGPT When you read “Supercharge Excel with ChatGPT”, you might think of some magic or something very special. In fact, I used ChatGPT lately to “migrate” my Veeam vSphere Tagging Excel Tool to something independent. I’ve had various good feedback on my Excel …

In this blog post I wanted to introduce my personal Veeam vSphere Tagging Excel Tool which I’ve been using over the years within several customer projects to simply onboarding VM’s to backup jobs. Why vSphere Tags? It is certainly known nowadays, that they hold the key to unlocking the full …

By far the best data protection event VeeamON 2022 – in person or virtual is taking place from May the 16-19, in Las Vegas or virtually ! I can’t wait to get out and about to a conference again and will be there live and in person in Las Vegas …

Veeam Vanguard 2022 Program Nomination On the 28th of February 2022 I found an awesome e-mail from Nikola Pejková in my mailbox, that I have been selected for the Veeam Vanguard Program for 2022! This is my 3rd consecutive year in a row now. I’m feeling very honored to remain …

The idea behind the vCenter role for Veeam ONE Based on my original blogpost from 2020 where I created a vCenter role for Veeam Backup & Replication with PowerCLI, I decided to do the same for Veeam ONE. As a result the blog post here with the new script was …

Introduction Hi Folks, I recently had a very strange situation at one of our customers infrastructure that the Veeam FastClone operation takes too long. The infrastructure was sized that we had a primary backup storage in the first data center and a backup copy target in the second data center. …

Introduction to Kubestr and Kasten Today I wanted to introduce Kubestr, a new tool from Kasten for Kubernetes storage assessments ! In the meantime, the world of Kubernetes has also captivated me. In general, you can say that my perspective from a backup point of view has great advantages in …

Introduction Recently, one of my customers had a request to perform a PostgreSQL backup with Veeam, consistently . From my experience, I have rarely had requests for this specific topic in the past. Most database administrators in the past had their own backup routines for PostgreSQL and wanted to stick …

In this post I’m going to show you how to do SAP DB2 databases backup on Linux with Veeam. I came across a SAP DB2 installation during one of my last projects and wanted to share with you how to backup these databases. Introduction on pre-freeze and post-thaw scripts Since …