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I’ve had this persistent on and off again problem where my backup server in my homelab will just randomly stop responding after a few days of operation. The specs are: The behaviour was weird. Everything would work fine for a few days and then the server would be inaccessible via RDP or the local console. … Read more
Just upgraded my Homelab’s Veeam Deployment to 12.3 and during the process there was a big warning about having Antivirus exceptions configured properly for Veeam. In my environment I’m also using PostgreSQL as my database back-end for Veeam. Based on the information provided I whipped up a quick script to add/remove exceptions to Microsoft Defender … Read more
In a previous post I talked about installing a Quadro P620 into my ESXi host so I could attach it to my Plex VM. This worked out great except my Veeam backups started failing. There is a limitation in VMware vSphere where you can’t take a Snapshot of a VM with a PCIe device passed … Read more
My backup server has a ASRock H370M-ITX/AC motherboard in it and at the time of these benchmarks 3x6TB Seagate Ironwolf SATA disks. I run Veeam and used the SATA disks as my backup repository. My original configuration was 2x6TB Ironwolfs in a RAID0 (using Microsoft Storage Spaces) with Bitlocker enabled. This worked perfectly fine and … Read more
Update 2018-10-18 – Check out this comment. Looks like a much easier method than my MSI editing one. Sick of the hotfix requirements for NetApp Host Utilities? Me to. On a test/dev server I have I’ve been experimenting with Veeam, iSCSI, ReFS and Server 2016. I wanted to run the NetApp Host Utilities … Read more