Veeam Community Forums Digest for dandvo [Oct 23 - Oct 29, 2017]

Veeam Community Forums Digest

October 23 - October 29, 2017

 

THE WORD FROM GOSTEV

Another week, another major ransomware attack! This time it is the Bad Rabbit. While the first few days of attack targeted primarily Eastern Europe, it still makes sense to notify your end users and clients, instructing them not to fall into a trap of fake Flash Player update notifications that look like this. As these autopsy results show, this ransomware uses the standard approach of scheduling itself instead of just triggering instantly. This was actually one of the topics I spoke about at the event last week: these sort of "sleeping" threats present a significant challenge in data protection. You think you have the perfect backup because you tested one for recoverability, and you think the OS inside is "healthy" just because the antivirus inside could not detect a 0-day threat – but when you restore this backup a few days later, the virus wakes up and start encrypting local drives while spreading on your network again. Luckily, with Veeam you can always fall back to doing file-level recovery instead, should you run into such issue. Switching to Veeam R&D news, we've reached the internal beta milestone for Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 3 release. While we don't do public betas for B&R for a number of reasons - we always do internal previews, followed by controlled private betas. And for me, the availability of these builds always means the release is in a good shape, because our QC folks have very high quality standards for betas. So, last week all Veeam systems engineers have been busy testing the long-awaited built-in agent management functionality – and loving it. One feature that gets the most excitement is Microsoft Failover Cluster support - they cannot believe we were actually able to deliver such a major functionality in an update! We're also getting lots of questions from just about everyone about support for the newly released Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, Windows Server 2016 version 1709, Microsoft SQL Server 2017 and VMware vCloud Director 9.0. All these releases came out almost at the same time, and luckily it was still a good time to add their support into Update 3 – even if this meant delaying one slightly. By now we have a good idea on all code changes required, and are working on implementing them as I write this – so, barring any unexpected issues, you can expect all these new platforms supported with Update 3. Also, to follow up on the last week's digest, our QC folks did find time to do a smoke test of ReFS deduplication functionality of Windows Server 2016 version 1709 - and the conclusion is that it is currently incompatible with our advanced ReFS integration. Specifically, the issue is that block cloning API calls fail on deduplicated backup files with data integrity streams enabled – which does look like a bug on Microsoft side. Thus, to make ReFS volumes with deduplication enabled actually usable for backup repositories, we've decided to temporarily disable fast cloning functionality on such volumes in the Update 3. There are simply too many unknowns at this time – even if Microsoft is quick to fix the current API roadblock, further testing may uncover additional compatibility issues – but with Update 3 being just around the corner, we simply do not have enough time to iterate on this. The ultimate air-gapped backup storage just got better – IBM has announced LTO-8 with double capacity of the previous LTO generation (12TB native capacity per cartridge), and performance of up to 360MB/s. New tape drives and cartridges will be available right this quarter, and we're already working with IBM to test this goodness so that we could declare the official support - but we expect it will work out of the box. It's quite exciting to see such a progress for the technology that was declared dead 10 years ago, especially when IBM already has even more dazzling numbers to share on what's coming next. Last but not least, I have some useful free stuff to share! Microsoft has introduced the new free Azure account that comes with 1 year worth of compute, storage, network and database quantities (plus 25+ always free services such as App Service and Functions). In addition, it provides $200 credit to try any other service Azure has to offer. One popular use case for this new offer here at Veeam involves creating backups of old laptops and PCs with free Veeam Agent for Windows, and - using Veeam Backup Free Edition - restoring those directly to Azure. This way, you can just power on the corresponding Azure VM when you need to get something out – which is extremely useful when you're on the road away from home.

 

TOP CONTENT

Ubuntu 17.10 - Kernel 4.13.0 - dkms does not build   [VIEWS: 412 • REPLIES: 4] Upgraded my Ubuntu Budgie 17.04 system to Ubuntu Budgie 17.10, which has updated kernel 4.13.0-16. I had to add veeamsnap via dkms and it's failing on build (sudo dkms build -m veeamsnap -v 1.0.1.364). more Veeam Endpoin & Win10 1709   [VIEWS: 271 • REPLIES: 16] This morning Windows 10 - Veeam enpoint working just fine Install 1709 Run Backup more How to reduce the backup size   [VIEWS: 197 • REPLIES: 2] We are using the Veeam backup for a year. We found a lot of the data are the video and sound files. Would we have any way to skip or exclude those files type into the backup task ? Regards, Ivan more RDP proxy appliance for Hyper-V Server   [VIEWS: 180 • REPLIES: 1] Hello Veeam experts, Old Veeam blog article mentions a nice way to access Remote Desktop in Free Hyper-V Server, see link below. https://www.veeam.com/blog/rdp-rsat-free-hyper-v-server-2012-r2-remote-desktop-appliance-linux.html more Possible new feature? Moving Backup Chains   [VIEWS: 174 • REPLIES: 10] So I'm in the process of migrating my backup chains to different storage. Unfortunately given the massive size of these chains, I must disable the job for at least a day while the copy runs. Murphy's Law states that this is when I will be needing the backups to be running! It would be very interesting to have a built-in move option which tracks the locations of the individual files in the backup chains, allowing the copy to simply pause when a scheduled job run happens, then resume copying the chain when the job finishes. more

 

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