

“We’re excited to work with Veeam, and look forward to the unprecedented speed and scale of backup and restore experiences they can bring to customers with our new Microsoft 365 Backup solution,” said Jeff Teper, President, Collaboration Apps and Platforms, Microsoft. We plan to deliver innovative new features and capabilities taking advantage of the power and reliability of the Veeam Data Platform which keeps businesses running.” We’re delighted to extend our advanced capabilities to customers and partners using Microsoft 365 Backup. Veeam is the leading provider of backup and recovery for Microsoft 365, with over 15 million users protected. “That means fast, reliable access and availability of data is critical to keep businesses running. “Today, every business is a digital business,” said Danny Allan, CTO at Veeam. Veeam plans to utilize this integration to deliver new innovations and experiences to Microsoft customers that need the very best data protection and ransomware recovery to keep their businesses running. Alliance Partner Integrations & QualificationsĬOLUMBUS, Ohio - July 18, 2023: Veeam ® Software, the leader in Data Protection and Ransomware Recovery, today announced it is integrating Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 with newly launched Microsoft 365 Backup via their backup APIs to bring customers and partners new capabilities for backup, recovery, ransomware protection and business continuity.Physical Windows | Linux | MacOS | Unix | NASĪpplications Microsoft | Oracle | SAP Hana | PostgreSQL Virtual VMware | Hyper-V | Nutanix AHV | RHV Using native quiescing does not prevent you from doing app-aware restores using the Veeam Explorer tool for AD/Exchange/SQL/Oracle either.Cloud AWS | Azure | Google | IBM | Kubernetes I also use an admin accounts to do guest file system indexing on our file server VMs, but most VMs don't need this. I use this method for all of my VMs except for SQL Server VMs where I want Veeam to truncate the SQL transaction logs. This removes the need for Veeam to have admin access to the VM.

You can use VMTools (for VMWare) or Hyper-V Native Quiescence which means VMWare or Hyper-V will inform the guest to take a VSS snapshot rather than Veeam. I guess, if you want to have an consistent domaincontroller backup you need full administrator right on it. Unfortunately it is impossible - we need access to ADMIN$ of the guest VM in order to upload VSS agents, and for generic VM you can you can use local admin, but it is disabled on DCs.Īnother solution would be to backup this machine without VSS, but you would have to create DC DB using some other tool as it will be inconsistent without VSS. I have asked that question about 3 years ago in a support ticket and the answer I got is this:
