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Inside an IBM LTO-6 Tape Drive: Exploring Its Hardware and Electronics [Part 1]

01/11/202602/11/2026

Inside an IBM LTO-6 Tape Drive: Exploring Its Hardware and Electronics [Part 1]

When we talk about tape backup, we usually focus on storage capacity, transfer speeds, retention policies, media compatibility, and the importance of keeping offline copies of our data. But have you ever wondered what an LTO tape drive actually looks like on the inside? Please see Hardening Veeam Backup & Replication on Windows 2025: A…

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Hardening Veeam Backup & Replication on Windows 2025: A CIS-Compliant Walkthrough

25/10/202630/10/2026

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Hardening Veeam Backup & Replication on Windows 2025: A CIS-Compliant Walkthrough

Acknowledgments & Project Inspiration: This guide and implementation walkthrough are inspired by the open-source hardening framework developed by Lukas Klostermann. A special thanks goes to Lukas for creating and sharing the excellent veeam-win-hardening-script on GitHub (https://github.com/lukas-kl/veeam-win-hardening-script). His work provides an invaluable foundation for automating CIS-compliant security baselines tailored specifically for Veeam infrastructure on Windows. Backup…

Backup, Windows, Windows Server

Unattended Gold Image & Hardened MSCB & CIS – Windows Server 2025 Image for Veeam Infrastructure

25/10/202625/10/2026

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Unattended Gold Image & Hardened MSCB & CIS – Windows Server 2025 Image for Veeam Infrastructure

1. Overview & Architecture: Creating a baseline Golden Image for Windows Server 2025 ensures consistency, security, and rapid deployment across your infrastructure. This guide provides a complete, production-ready workflow to build, harden, and generalize a Windows Server 2025 template specifically optimized for enterprise environments and Veeam Backup & Replication workloads. 2. VMware Virtual Machine Prerequisites…

Network | Monitoring

Your DR Network Is Probably the Part You Have not Tested

28/09/202619/10/2026

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Your DR Network Is Probably the Part You Have not Tested

A recovered workload is not a recovered service until DNS, routing, firewall policy, load balancing, private connectivity, management access, and application dependencies work from the recovery site.

Network | Monitoring

Your Hypervisor Exit Plan Should Be a Recovery Runbook

21/09/202621/09/2026

Eric Black 2 Comments

Your Hypervisor Exit Plan Should Be a Recovery Runbook

A hypervisor exit should be planned like recovery: group workloads by application, test them on the target, define cutover and rollback gates, and prove the new platform can protect and recover them before the old one disappears.

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Veeam Hyper-V Backup Failing with “Incorrect Function” During Checkpoint Creation

15/09/202616/09/2026

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Recently I faced an interesting issue with a Hyper-V VM backup in Veeam. One specific VM suddenly started failing during checkpoint creation, while all the other VMs in the environment continued to be protected normally. Please see Synology Surveillance365: Cloud-Based Camera Management Without an On-Premises Surveillance Server, and Linux System Update: Upgrade vs. Dist-upgrade Differences….

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Synology Surveillance365: Cloud-Based Camera Management Without an On-Premises Surveillance Server

31/08/202611/09/2026

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Synology Surveillance365: Cloud-Based Camera Management Without an On-Premises Surveillance Server

Managing surveillance infrastructure across multiple locations can be challenging, especially when traditional deployments require dedicated on-site servers, complex configurations, and ongoing maintenance. In this article, we shall discuss “Synology Surveillance365: Cloud-Based Camera Management Without an On-Premises Surveillance Server”. Please see Strategic breakdown and step by step guide to upgrading to VBR 13.1, and Veeam Oracle…

Reviews, Storage

Strategic breakdown and step by step guide to upgrading to VBR 13.1

27/08/202601/09/2026

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Strategic breakdown and step by step guide to upgrading to VBR 13.1

With the General Availability (GA) of Veeam Data Platform 13.1, Veeam delivers one of its most critical releases to date. In this guide, we shall discuss the “Strategic breakdown and step by step guide to upgrading to VBR 13.1 on a Windows-based deployment”, and explore why upgrading to version 13.1 is essential for your infrastructure”….

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Veeam Oracle RMAN Troubleshooting: Connection Timeout, Broken Pipe and a Stuck RMANPluginManager

27/08/202627/08/2026

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Veeam Oracle RMAN Troubleshooting: Connection Timeout, Broken Pipe and a Stuck RMANPluginManager

Oracle RMAN backups using the Veeam Plug-in for Oracle RMAN involve multiple components working together. When something goes wrong, the problem is not always immediately visible from the Veeam console. In this article, I want to share a real troubleshooting case where Veeam Backup & Replication reported the backup session as Success, while RMAN was…

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SizeTrend: A Fast Windows Disk Space Analyzer for Storage Analysis

27/08/202627/08/2026

Christian No Comments

SizeTrend: A Fast Windows Disk Space Analyzer for Storage Analysis

When a Windows server or workstation suddenly consumes system storage, system administrators immediately face the challenge of isolating the cause. Standard built-in Windows diagnostic utilities show high-level storage categories, but they often fail to pinpoint the exact directories, application logs, or recent file system changes responsible for rapid disk growth. In this guide we shall…

Windows, Windows Server

Veeam ONE 13.1.0.7034 Upgrade: Complete Pre-flight and Step-by-Step Guide

26/08/202627/08/2026

Christian No Comments

Veeam ONE 13.1.0.7034 Upgrade: Complete Pre-flight and Step-by-Step Guide

In this article, we shall discuss the steps to upgrade Veeam ONE to build 13.1.0.7034. Veeam ONE 13.1 expands monitoring coverage, strengthens identity and access controls, improves threat visibility, and modernizes reporting and upgrade operations. Please see how to perform in-place upgrade of Veeam Recovery Orchestrator to version 13.1, Enhanced Proactive Monitoring with Veeam ONE,…

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Upgrading Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager to v13.1 and Applying System Updates

26/08/202603/09/2026

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Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager (VBEM) provides centralized management, global data visibility, and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) across multi-server backup environments. In this guide, we will walk through upgrading Enterprise Manager to version 13.1.1.18 via the web-based Veeam Host Management Console, aand applying underlying OS and security updates. Please see Veeam Enterprise Manager setup and User…

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In-place upgrade of Veeam Recovery Orchestrator to version 13.1

25/08/202627/08/2026

Christian No Comments

In-place upgrade of Veeam Recovery Orchestrator to version 13.1

Unlike VBR (Veeam Backup and Replication), Veeam Recovery Orchestrator (VRO) v13 is still Windows-based. Just like Veeam ONE, it does not have a Linux-based VSA (Appliance model). To run VRO, you must install VRO on a standard Microsoft Windows Server. In this article, we shall discuss how to perform an In-place upgrade of Veeam Recovery…

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