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Veeam Backup Free Edition was quite limited and only included 13 features. While basic functionality was available, users still lacked the ability to schedule backup jobs, utilize replication, and were only able to perform ad-hoc full backups of their VMs. Veeam Backup Free Edition also lacked support for physical computer backup.

The ability to schedule backups without using a PowerShell script is a great feature addition that was not available in the previous free offering. Users can now easily use the wizard to schedule their jobs to run automatically based on a defined schedule.

You can install these products directly on the machines you need to protect and start performing backups to any storage you have in less than 5 minutes! The only thing you lose in this case is centralized management, but if you only need to protect a couple of machines, centralized management may not be all that necessary.

If you want to know which VMs are protected, and which are not, then our Protected VMs report from the Veeam Backup & Replication report pack is here to help. Not only does this report list all VMs that have backups within a defined recovery point objective (RPO), but it also shows which VMs lack backups. You can even review the reason why some VMs are unprotected. For example, if you provisioned a new VM and forgot to add it to the backup job, Veeam ONE will spot this and will immediately inform you about this via the Protected VMs report.

NEW Veeam ONE Community Edition does not have any limitations on the number of VMs you can monitor in the virtual infrastructure. This has been true with Veeam ONE Free Edition and remains the same for Community Edition, but now we give you even more features! In addition to the ability to identify performance bottlenecks in your virtual infrastructure, you can now make decisions right in the Veeam ONE UI to resolve these issues via our NEW Remediation Actions that are available to ALL Veeam ONE users. These actions can do things like automatically remove an orphaned VM snapshot or add an unprotected VM to a backup job with a single click!

Hi @all,
i am new by veeam. I have installed the community edition and will testing backup. Next week i have a tech demo with a veeam consult for full version. But now i will testing the free funktions, and i have added my S3 Bucket. The connections to Amazon S3 works, but when i will configure a backup job, i cannot choose the s3 Storage as backup destination. It there a limit function for this storage in the communitiy edition?

Many thanks forwards Stefan

you cannot backup directly to an object storage. You have to configure a scale-out repository with the object storage as capacity tier. For this you need the NFR License or a paid license (Level enterprise or higher).

I'm seeing warnings and failures during our Veeam backup operations (sqlserver). I'm guessing Replicate has issues when Veeam truncates the log files as part of its backup strategy. What is the best way to configure replication when using a third party backup solution such as Veeam?

update: " I edited away some some double angle bracket I had used to indicate quote from OP, replacing them with a dash and red color. Also changed some numeric values and little things and now it seems to take. Hmmm"

I submitted a reply to this topic twice but it did not posts or perhaps were deleted instantaneously without a message. Dis I use a bad word? Let's see if this gets in. It's odd, as I submitted several other replies to other topics and they all took just fine.

>> Veeam truncates the log files as part of its backup strategy.
For real? That's a corruption strategy, not a backup strategy. Such backup would not be useful for SQLserver itself, nor for Replicate. IMHO it is cleaner, clearer, to just delete versus truncate as it might as well not be there at all.

Replicate is willing to help some with the 'advanced' endpoint options like 'Select virtual backup device types' and 'Backup folder preprocessing command:' but ultimately it is dependent its environment to restore a valid archive log.

>>> mssql_approve_table_full_logging_setup(...) failed in checking PK presence for table identified by ID '1954106002'
That's possible a table which was deleted before the archive log was processed. Could be?

- Veeam truncates the log files as part of its backup strategy.
For real? That's a corruption strategy, not a back strategy. Such backup would not be useful for SQLserver itself, nor for Replicate. IMHO it is cleaner, clearer, to just delete versus truncate as it might as well not be there at all.

Given Veeam has been (not sure it is today) one of the go-to choices for VMWare backups, I would have thought the good people at Qlik would have a best practice guide when something like Veeam is involved.

So it is not the backed-up file that is truncated but Veeams telling MSsql it can safely truncate the log. One thing to check for the SQLserver source endpoint in Replicate is the "Exclusively use sp_repldone within a single task" setting. That's probably not going to work with that.

You may want to figure out how to make Replicate read the Tlog backup as made by Veeams probably using the "Backup folder preprocessing command:" option. I know that's needed for Quest "LiteSpeed". They can also truncate the Tlog ( -for-sql-server/kb/25570/does-litespeed-log-backup-process-trunca... )

Thanks for the advice/clues Hein, there is very little on the subject. We have a session with Qlik consulting today, hopefully we can find some documentation on integrating stuff like Veeam with Qlik. I'll post the update after we find the solution.

Also, on the access order, that Tlog is preferredis of course only possible when the log records are still there based on the time boundary. If the Replicate source reader fell behind (for example after an intense re-org generating lots of irrelevant for Replicate log data) or when a task is started by timestamp it will read Archive Logs first until and will read it to the end. No chunking as for the Tlog. This until when looking for the next log it reaches a time where the data is also in the Tlog.

Starting 2021.11 release, there is a MS-CDC source endpoint which elimiates the need to rely on the transaction log . This minimizes the risk of data loss resulting from online transaction log retention time and backup transaction log inaccessibility.

Veeam Backup & Replication is a software solution that protects your data by performing backup, replication, and recovery operations. With this product, you can recover your data fast from all types of infrastructure: virtual, physical, and cloud.

Note: Make sure to run the installation by mounting the image or running the Setup.exe file to avoid missing crucial components. Do not run the installation using the executables from other folders.

The Ready to Install step shows the default installation configuration. To start the installation without custom settings, select Install and wait for the process to complete. The wizard goes through eight steps. Once done, click Finish to exit the wizard.

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Veeam Backup & Replication is a software product developed by Veeam Software to back up, restore and replicate data on virtual machines (VMs). First released in 2008, this data protection and disaster recovery technology is part of the Veeam Availability Suite.

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The free Community Edition lets users back up a maximum of 10 VMs, physical servers, workstations and network-attached storage instances. Veeam Backup & Replication Community Edition provides core functions included in the paid version of Veeam Backup & Replication: backup, recovery and replication.

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