In this guide, I will show you how to backup NAS with Veeam Backup & Replication 10. Veeam Backup a lot of new features are added to this new version included backup a NAS. I am writing this topic to show you how we can protect our NAS with Veeam.
Backup NAS with Veeam Backup
NAS Configuration
First of all, We need to check in the NAS if SMB3 is enabled. To enable SMB in NAS click Here.
Add the file shares to Veeam
1- Open Veeam shortcut and then click connect.
2- Select Inventory tab, select file shares. And then click on Add file share.
3- Select SMB Share.
4- Specify the shared folder, the credentials that are allowed to connect to this one and select advanced.
5- You can select the backup source: from file share, a Microsoft VSS Snapshot of from a storage snapshot. I have selected the Backup directly from the file share. First, you can check your NAS is compatible with Microsoft VSS snapshot.
6- Click Next.
7- Processing setting, if you have any proxy server you can select by click on choose button and then click Apply.
8- Click Apply.
9- Choose the finish button to add the file share in Veeam.
Add the file share to a backup job
10- To add the file share to a backup job, just right click on SMB file share and then select add to backup job.
11- Specify a backup job name, description and then click next.
12- Add the file shares you need to backup. A single backup job can handle several file shares (like the VM backup job). Click Next.
13- Select the backup repository, the retention, the archive settings and then click next.
14- You can specify a target for a secondary target. The backup copy is an further copy for short term. Click Next.
15- Set a backup job schedule, automatically retry and click apply.
In this article, I will show you how to configure iSCSI share in TrueNAS CORE to use as a datastore in VMware 7.0. ISCSI share is a method to set up block level storage access between 2 different computers. In this setup, I will use this protocol to store the virtual machines that I create in VMWare in our TrueNAS box.
The TrueNAS CORE web GUI (interface) makes it simple to enable iSCSI and setup a storage volume as an iSCSI target, and then we can connect it using the ESXi web GUI using software iSCSI.
Configure iSCSI share in TrueNAS CORE
Enabling the iSCSI service in TrueNAS
Open a web browser, type TrueNAS IP address, and press enter. Type TrueNAS credentials and then click login.
TrueNAS Dashboard.
How to enable iSCSI Service
Select the Services tab, and then enable iSCSI, Start Automatically.
Select Storage tab, click on disks to see which one you want to use.
How to create storage volume to share in TrueNAS CORE
Select Storage, select Pools, and then click ADD.
Select create new pool option, and then choose create a pool.
Enter a name and then choose the disk you need to share as iSCSI share.
Choose the error key to choose the disk and then click Create.
Choose the confirm checkbox and then choose create a pool.
In the pool window, we want to create the storage volume. Take a note that how much space we have available, then select three dots button and select Add Zvol.
zvol name – type a name. Comments – a description Size for this zvol – select the volume size. Now click SUBMIT to create the new Zvol.
A new Zvol has been created.
How to configure iSCSI to share the new volume
Select the Sharing tab and then Block Shares (iSCSI) Click on the Portals tab and then click on the ADD button.
Description – type a description IP Address – type the IP address of an existing network interface that we need the portal to existing on. If we choose the box it must expand to show you the presently available IPs. Port – Default TCP port is 3260. Click SUBMIT to create the portal.
How to create an Initiator to attach to the portal
It will initiate requests to & receive responses from iSCSI target(s). Choose the Initiators tab and then select ADD.
Select Allow All initiators and then the save button.
Select targets and then click ADD.
Target Name – choose a name for the target. Portal Group ID – choose the ID of the portal group we have created earlier. Initiator Group ID – choose the ID of the initiator group we have created earlier. Click SUBMIT to create the target.
Create the Extents tab and then click on ADD.
Name – The name of the extent. Select Enabled Extent type – Select Device. Device – Click here to choose the Zvol we have created earlier. Under compatibility – select enable TPC Click SUBMIT to create the extent.
Choose the Associated Targets tab & then click on ADD.
Target –select the target we have created earlier. LUN ID – type a number between 0 and 1023. Extent – choose the extent we just created. Click SUBMIT to associate the extent with the target.
It will returned to the Associated the Targets tab and then you will see the newly available target.
To add iSCSI TrueNAS to VMware ESXi Host. Login to VMware ESXI Host
Select storage, Select Adapters tab and then select Software iSCSI.
iSCSI enabled tab, choose Enabled. Network port binding – select add port binding.
Select a VMkernel interface and then click select.
Dynamic targets tab – select add dynamic targets Enter the IP address of the TrueNAS ISCSI Server and then click save configuration.
Select Refress
Now you can see Iscsi software adapter and then Datastore.
Select New datastore.
Choose create new VMFS datastore type and then click Next.
Enter the Datastore name, select TrueNAS Iscsi datastore, and then click next.
Choose full disk or custom size, and then click next.
In this guide I will explore how to create Agent Backup Job Veeam Software, a backup physical computer, we can configure a Veeam Agent backup job in the Veeam Backup & Replication console. In the Veeam Backup, we can create Agent backup jobs Veeam.
The backup job runs on the backup Windows server, like Virtual Machine backup jobs. The backup job is for computers that are connected to the backup server. This connection must not be interrupted. The Veeam Backup & Replication allows you to configure backup jobs for Microsoft Windows and Linux computers. In this section, you will learn how to create a Veeam Agent backup job for Microsoft Windows computers.
The Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows does not backup data to which indicative links are targeted. It just backs up the route information that the symbolic links include. Afterward, the restoration, like symbolic links are created in the restore destination.
Create Veeam Agent Backup Job
1- Open Veeam Backup & Replication console, On the Home tab, click Backup Job option, select Windows computer to start the New Agent Backup Job wizard.
At the Job step of the wizard, indicate protection settings for the backup job: In the menu, choose Windows Server to add to the backup job standalone servers that have a lasting connection to the backup server. 2- In the way list, select Managed by the backup server and then click Next. Once you set up an Agent backup job Veeam managed by the backup Windows server, Veeam Backup & Replication records the job configuration to its database. Veeam Backup & Replication operates all management tasks for the Veeam Agent backup job.
3- At the Name step of the wizard, type a name and description for the backup job and then click next.
4- At the Computers level of the wizard, then click on Add.
6- B- Select Individual computer Enter host name or IP address of the computer you want to add then click OK.
7- Click next.
8- At the Backup Mode step of the wizard, select the Entire computer and select next. At the Storage option of the wizard, select the backup repository where you need to store your backups. For other settings, leave the default values, and then click ok.
9- At the Guest Processing step of the wizard, leave the default settings and click next.
10- At the Schedule step of the wizard, define scheduling settings for the job and then click on apply.
11- At the Summary option of the wizard, select the Run the job when I click Finish checkbox and then click the Finish button.
In this article, I will explain how to make Bootable Media using AOMEI Partition Assistant. When your system fails to boot into Windows 7, 8, 10, and 11 you can use AOMEI Partition Assistant to make a bootable CD/DVD or USB to fix your Windows failure.
Creating a bootable media ISO file (CD/DVD or USB PIN drive) based on Windows Pre-installation Environment (Windows PE) can load an operating system and run AOMEI Partition Assistant under the computer. It can keep away from damage to the native operating system due to some reasons, such as your incorrect operation. It is very helpful to troubleshoot system problems and retrieve data when your computer fails to boot. Windows PE Bootable media enables you to start a system for the purposes of recovery and deployment. It boosts the PC directly into memory, which lets you take out the Windows PE media after the system boots. Once you booted your system into Windows PE, you can reformat or modify the hard disk and then copy the Windows PE source files to the hard disk.
Before you Start
Insert a blank CD/DVD or attach a USB flash drive to your computer. If you have a USB pin drive or CD/DVD, the AOMEI Partition tool will able you to make a bootable ISO file, then you can burn it to CD/DVD. In this example, a burner software that can create bootable CD/DVD) is needed.
How to make a bootable WinPE media?
First, Install AOMEI and then launch AOMEI Partition Assistant. Select Make Bootable Media in the left panel.
Make Bootable media wizard, confirm the operation you are going to do, and then select next to continue.
AOMEI Partition Assistant makes a bootable wizard will automatically detect either your system has installed Windows AIK/ADK or not. If yes, then follow the next step. If not, then download and install Windows AIK/ADK. There are three ways to make bootable media based on Windows PE. Burn to CD/DVD: You can create a bootable CD/DVD. USB Boot Device: You can create a bootable USB Device. Export ISO File: Make a bootable ISO file. Select one of them according to your needs and then select the Proceed button. Here we take a USB flash drive for instance. Note: Add Drivers option, permit you to manually add additional drivers into the bootable media.
The USB pin drive needs to be formatted and all your data on it will erase. If there is any important data, please take a backup and redo the process. Click Yes.
It will take a few minutes to create WinPE bootable USB drive.
Select the driver and then click Ok.
Read the information and click yes.
WinPE bootable media successfully created, click finish.
Note: AOMEI Partition Assistant will detect & combine all mandatory drivers of the current OS automatically. When the progress starts a few seconds, there will be a pop-up window with the list of these drivers. To boot from the Windows PE CD/DVD or USB flash disk, you need to enter into system BIOS and then change boot order under Boot Menu.
This post shows you how to merge partitions using AOMEI partition assistant. We will have a look on how to merge disk unallocated space into one or merge two partitions into one partition to increase the size of the destination partition.
Why do you want to merge partitions?
To merge partitions is to unite two or more partitions together. You may need to merge partitions when One of your partitions is running low space while the other partitions are just about empty. There are some partitions on the hard drive and you need to get a lesser number of partitions so as to make it easy to manage them.
You can merge partitions with Windows built-in Disk Management settings. However, you need to delete the other partition earlier merging since the Disk Management tool cannot directly resize the partition. Fortunately, there is an AOMEI Partition Assistant tool that can merge your partitions without deleting other partitions in advance.
Before you start
You can only merge two partitions at one time, and the two partitions must be adjoining. However, you can merge 2 or more parts of unallocated space into one partition. You cannot merge a system boot drive into a data partition but you can merge a data partition into a system boot drive. You cannot merge the System Reserved partition. Boot partition or System partition cannot be merged with the front partition. Partitions lay on different hard drives that can’t be merged. Merge 2 nearly full partitions are not recommended for might cause data loss. Through the most merging of partitions is for getting additional free space, thus merge two partitions has no use.
How to merge?
The followings article is to merge two partitions and merge unallocated space into one partition. Please select the right one according to your need. Download AOMEI Partition Assistant in order to follow the steps.
Merge unallocated space into a partition
Install AOMEI Partition Assistant and then launch it. In this instance, there is an unallocated space after C: partition. Choose the partition (here is an example C:) where you need to merge unallocated space to and then choose to Merge Partitions under the partition operations menu.
Merge partition window pop-up, select the check box of which is in front of the unallocated space, and then select the OK button to continue. In this instance, you cannot define the target partition because by default the system partition C is selected as the target partition and there is no other option.
You can view the changes and then select the apply button to save the changes.
Select proceed.
Select ok.
Merging partition is in progress
Resizing partition
AOMEI resize partition progress
Select Restart Now
Now you can see the partition size.
Merge two partitions into one
Open AOMEI Partition Assistant, select the partition (here is E:) which I want to merge, and then select Merge Partitions from the left side menu.
In the Merge Partition wizard, choose the partition (here is E:) check box, select the target partition (F:) And then choose the OK button to continue. In this instance, all the data on partition F will be transferred into E: drive.
In this article, Have a look on how to how to create new partition using AOMEI Partition Assistant in Windows XP/11. AOMEI Partition Assistant will assist you to create partitions without any limit, in spite of the fact that there is no unallocated space.
About Creating Partition
To create a partition is actually to partition a hard drive. Only after creating partitions on a disk can you make use of the drive to save all kinds of data. All physical parameters of a disk are set when we make the partition on it, which includes MBR (Main Boot Record) and the destination for saving boot record backup. When restoring the system, the whole c disk (the computer disk) will be formatted. If all the data is saved in drive C, they will all be cleaned and cannot be restored.
Too many other things in the system disk will slow down the system’s running. If there are several partitions and every partition stores different sorts of data, it is convenient for users to manage them.
Before You Start
For MBR disk, satisfy how many partitions are there already on the hard drive. Because MBR disk only supports creating up to four primary partitions or three primary partitions and one extended partition which might include one or more logical partitions. For the GPT disk, we can create partitions without limitation. And we can have more primary partitions. Despite that, the Windows implementation restrains things to 128 partitions.
How to Create Partition
AOMEI Partition Assistant provides 2 methods to create the partition, please choose the one which is more suitable for you.
Install and open AOMEI Partition Assistant. Select the unallocated space and then select Create Partition on your left side (if there is no unallocated space, please the Solution 2).
Create Partition windows will pop up, Select the Advanced to specify the information for your new partition, including partition size and position, label, drive letter, files system, and partition type (primary or logical). You can also specify the partition size by dragging both edges. After all the settings are completed and then select the OK to continue.
You can view the newly created partition and then choose the Apply on the toolbar to commit the Pending Operations.
Tips: Recommended: You set the file system as NTFS. If you select the drive letter as none, the partition will be hidden, in other words, you can’t view it on My PC. Select proceed.
Select Yes.
Creating a partition is in progress.
Select ok.
Now you can see the partition successfully created.
In this blog, I am going to show you how to resize partition with AOMEI partition assistant. We can resize partition easily and accurately with the help of the AOMEI Partition Assistant. Resizing disk partition includes shrinking & extending partition.
Why do we need to resize a partition?
Resizing partition means resizing a partition as we like, either shrink it or extend it. But when we shrink a disk partition, we can at most shrink it to the size of its used space so that we can use the partitions with more pliability. For instance, we can store files or applications on any one of the partitions. If the system partition is running low disk space, we can increase its size with the space shrunk from other partitions. Besides, we can create a new partition with the room get from other partitions. I want to increase my C drive with a self-supporting (Windows) function but I didn’t know how for it seems very difficult. Being neither a technical guy nor a computer professional, I’m normally been caught by problems. It is extremely irritating! But now, I have not been troubled by such problems anymore using AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional. It really helps me to manage my system disks very well with its insightful interface and simple steps. Anyway, it is compatible with Windows 7/8/10/11.
Resize partition with Partition Assistant
To increase partition means expand partition size; here you notice two points below: There should be an unallocated space locating on the same hard disk as the partition we want to extend. If there isn’t any unallocated space, we need to shrink other partitions to generate the unallocated space. The unallocated space must be adjacent to the partition we need to extend, anyway it is before the target partition or behind it. It isn’t, we could use the feature Move Partition to adjust the position of it. Install and open AOMEI Partition Assistant. In the AOMEI Partition console, you can the whole partition configuration. Select the partition (here is the C drive) you want to resize and then select Resize/Move Partition under Partition operations.
AOMEI Move and Resize window open up, position the mouse cursor on the right border of the partition and then drag the border rightwards to extend the partition. Click Ok.
Please preview the partition to be extended and then click the Apply menu on the toolbar to commit the operation.
Select the proceed button.
The Move/Resize operation will be performed under Windows PE mode and PreOS Mode and your system will reboot when. Note: If you are resizing your server partition and the server RAID is configured, then you can choose PreOS mode. In this example, I am resizing my desktop partition.
Resize a partition on which the AOMEI Partition Assistant installation file is.
Resize a partition where applications are running.
Your computer will automatically restart.
Here you can see unallocated space after resizing the partition.
Related: How to Merge Partitions using AOMEI Partition Assistant.
In this blog, we will have a look at how to install AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard. AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard is a free disk partition software, which has earned its popularity amongst users worldwide. AOMEI Partitions comes with so many wonderful features that permit you to completely control your system hard disk and partitions. For instance, the Resize Partition settings enable you to increase disk partition size to solve low disk space problems or shrink disk size to make partition size more moderate. You can elastically manage disk space with Creating Partition, Delete Partition, Copy Partition, Merge Partitions, Format Partition, Delete Partitions, and etc.
AOMEI Partition Assistant software supports all the storage devices which can be acknowledged by Windows, such as SATA, IDE, SCSI, USB pin drives, Hardware RAID, Firewire disk, and etc. It is capable to support 4TB maximum with 32 hard drives, with file system FAT and NTFS.
Install AOMEI Partition Assistant
AOMEI Partition Assistant includes more than 30 beneficial functions to enhance the performance of your hard disk partition. This software will fix your low disk space problem, address the problem of an unreasonable disk partition, and re-partition a hard drive without losing data. Worldwide, it can manage the hard disks and partitions in the most reasonable state.
Minimum Hardware requirements:
Recommended Hardware requirements:
500 MHz x86 or compatible CPU
1 GHz x86 or compatible CPU
256MB RAM memory
512MB RAM memory
Mouse and Keyboard
Mouse and Keyboard
There is a free edition we can use, named AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard. Though, it keeps many options locked. To unlock additional features, you can download and then try AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional for free, please review the AOMEI Partition Assistant Edition Comparison, and decide if it’s worth buying or not.
The welcome news is that the free demo version is not for a limited time. On the vice versa, you can almost do nothing useful in the demo version, as it only reproduces the program’s most powerful features.
In this article, I am going to uninstall Veritas System Recovery 21, and agent. Using Add or Remove Programs or Programs and Features in the control panel to uninstall products.
1- Press windows key + R, type appwiz.cpl and then click ok.
2- Programs and features, select veritas system recovery and then click uninstall.
3- Are you sure you want to remove, choose yes.
4- Veritas system recovery installer, select remove installation files and data files then click next.
5- Veritas system recovery uninstallation in progress.
6- The uninstallation wizard successfully completed, choose to reboot your computer checkbox and then click finish.
In this article, we will learn the basic steps of how to configure SMB share on Freenas to share your folder with Windows 10 devices using FreeNAS.
FreeNAS is perhaps one of the best solutions to configure a Server Message Block (SMB) share on your home, office to share files and media with Windows 10, macOS, and Linux users.
First, you need to install the FreeNAS on a PC or server hardware. There are some steps that you want to follow before you can share (SMB) to network users, including creating a new user account, storage pool, and dataset.
How to create new user in FreeNAS
Open FreeNAS in your web browser with FreeNAS IP address.
1- Sign into your root account.
2- Select Accounts.
3- Select Users, under the Users section and then select the Add button.
FreeNAS add new Windows share folder
4- Enter a name, username, and password.
5- Scroll down and then select the Save button.
6- User account successfully created. Next step is to create a storage pool, select storage.
How to create a storage pool in FreeNAS
7- Select Pools and then click on Add button.
8- Select Create Pool button.
9- Type a name and Check the Encryption checkbox (Optional).
Note: Encryption is not required, but it is recommended, so you don’t have to worry about your data when you need to send a faulty drive to repair or recovery.
10- Choose confirm checkbox and then choose the I Understand button.
11- Under the Available Disks, choose the drives that will participate in the storage pool. Click the Right arrow button to add the drives and then click the Create button.
12- Click the Confirm option and then click the Create Pool button.
13- Click the download encryption Key button if you selected the Encryption checkbox, and then the done button once you saved the file key.
How to create dataset in FreeNAS
Usually, a dataset is confused as a shared folder, but it is not. Alternatively, it is a unit in the ZFS filesystem that permits you to apply different settings, and it’s the section that will include the network share. 14- Select the 3 dot button and select add dataset.
15- Enter a name and then select the Save button.
16- Click the settings (…) button next to the dataset and then select the Edit Permissions.
17- Under the User, use the drop-down key and select the user that you created earlier.
How to enable SMB service in FreeNAS.
18- Select Services.
19- Enable SMB service.
How to create shared folder in FreeNAS
20- Select Sharing from the left pane. Select Windows (SMB) Shares and click on Add button.
21- Expand the + folder and select the dataset you created earlier (Dataset1). Under the Name, enter a name for the folder you are sharing. Click the Enable Service button (if applicable) and then click the Save button.
22- Select configure now twice.
Map FreeNAS shared folder in Windows 10
How to map a FreeNAS shared folder as a network drive in Windows 10. 23- Open Windows Explorer, click on This PC from the left pane. Select Computer tab, click on the Map network drive and select.
24- Choose a drive letter, In the Folder option, enter the path of network share on FreeNAS (for example, \10.0.0.110\Data). Select the Reconnect at the sign-in option Select the Connect using different credentials checkbox and then click finish.
Map FreeNAS folder on Windows 10 File Explorer
25- Sign-in with the FreeNAS user account credentials we have created earlier and click ok.
26- After completing the steps, select This PC to access the newly FreeNAS mapped drive.
In this blog, I will explain how to create replication Job of virtual Machines using Veeam backup. It is the best Veeam feature that will help you to protect your Virtual Machine data to another location from where we can restore the virtual machine any time in case of disaster.
Create Replication job in Veeam
1- Open Veeam Backup & Replication Console, click on Replication Job tab, and then click on Virtual Machine to create a new replication job to different ESXi Host.
2- New replication job wizard, type a replication job name and then click on Next button.
3- New replication job wizard, we need to add Virtual Machine whose you want to create replication job and then click on add button.
In this guide, I will explain how to create protection groups in Veeam backup and replication. We need to add computers that we plan to protect with Veeam Agents to the inventory in Veeam Backup & Replication console. The Veeam Backup & Replication, ensured computers are organized into protection groups. So, we can create one or more protection groups that include computers of offer different discovery or different types & deployment options.
Note:
If you don’t want to create protection groups, for example, if you plan to control only a small number of computers in your infrastructure, you can add the essential computers directly to a Veeam Agent backup job. The Veeam Backup will be automated add such computers to the Manually Added protection group.
If you want to know about creating protection groups, then click here
Create Protection Groups in Veeam Backup
1- To create the New Protection Group, Choose the Inventory option, choose Physical Infrastructure option and then choose Create Protection Group.
Protection Group Name and Description
2- In the Name box, enter a name for the protection group. In the Description field, provide a description for future referral. The default description details contain information about the user that added to the protection group, time, and time when the protection group was created.
3- Choose the type of the protection group and then select next.
Specify Protection Scope
4- This step of the wizard, you can indicate the computers that you want to add to the protection group. Click Add
5- In the Add Computer window, in the Hostname or IP address field, enter a full DNS name, NetBIOS name, or IP address of the computer that you want to add to the protection group.
From the Credentials list, select a user account that has the administrative permissions on the computer that you would like to add to the protection group. Veeam Backup & Replication will use this account to connect to the protected computer and fulfill the necessary operations on the computer: upload and install Veeam Agent, and so on. If you have not set up credentials previously, click the Manage accounts link or click Add on the right to add credentials. For more details click here
6- If you want to know more about if Veeam Backup & Replication can communicate with PCs added to the protection group, so click Test Now. So the Veeam Backup and Replication will use the credentials to connect to all computers in the list.
7- Click close.
Note:
If you want to choose to manually add Linux-based computers to the list of trusted hosts in Veeam Backup & Replication, when we test credentials for an unknown Linux-based computer within the protection group settings, the test process will complete with the failed position. It happens because Veeam Backup & Replication cannot connect to the not trusted computer before you add this computer to the list of trusted hosts. To know more about how to Add Computers to Trusted Hosts List.
8- Click Next.
9- Specify the new protection group backup schedule options and then click next.
10- Review the settings and then click apply.
11- Click next.
12- Select the checkbox run discovery when I click finish.
13- Rescan of active directory completed successfully click the close button.
