Troubleshooting Pre- and Post-Scripts for Veeam
Writing powershell and testing them is sometimes hard an annoying. Especially if you have a working script which runs when you start it manually, but getting an error message from VBR but don’t now...
Category: Powershell
Write volume label to your job log
Some weeks ago a partner asked me if it is possible to write the used disk for a backup job to the job log. I first didn’t understand this request, because I didn’t care...
Log your errors directly into your Veeam job
Sometimes it is necessary to use job pre and post scripts. Most customers don’t like scripts because they have no good error logging and when the script has an error log you need to...
Write your own Powershell modules
Hi there, in this blog post I want to share some details about a project I work from time to time on. In the past I wrote several scripts and in this scripts I...
Create for every DFS target an own job
Some days ago I got a question of a customer how has more than 1300 shares and wants to have for all shares an own backup job. This shares are all in an DFS...
Adding Azure/AWS region IPs to Network Traffic Rules
I got some days ago a question from a partner if we can limit the outgoing traffic from several locations to Amazon S3. In VBR there is a single “any to Internet” rule where...
Instant File Share Recovery Usecase
Maybe you heard already that Veeam has announced at VeeamON 2020 a new feature for their upcoming Release Veeam Availibility Suite v11 called “Instant File Share Recovery”. Since Version 10 Veeam is able to...
Auto-Update File Backup Job from DFS
Several month ago I was at a customer how has several hundreds of shares on a NetApp system and some shares on a Synology. This shares were mounted to a Microsoft DFS structure. For...
Cleanup unused shares in Veeam Backup & Replication
In Veeam Backup & Replication adding shares to a NAS Backup Job is a two step process. First you need to add the share to the inventory of Veeam Backup & Replication. After you...
Advanced Veeam NAS Backup
UPDATE 25th July 2020: Added a new variant “Invoke-NASVolumeBackup.ps1” to Github Repository, which is using the volume name instead of the share name. This allows to use this script no matter what protocol is...