Unofficial Mobile App to Monitor Veeam Backup - "Weeatcher"

There is an unofficial mobile app called "Weeatcher". Weeatcher is powered by Veeam Enterprise Manager RESTful API. To use this mobile app, you need to have Veeam Backup & Replication Enterprise Plus and installed Veeam Enterprise Manager.

Currently, this mobile app is free & currently available at Google Play. Let walk through this mobile app:

1. Enter your enterprise manager hostname

2. Provide correct credential to access Enterprise Manager

3.Once authenticated, you can view your summary of last job - 24 hours, 7 days & 30 days.

4. Click on each job to view the backup status. You can perform action such as START, STOP, RETRY and DISABLE Job.

5. Under Report tab, you can view the status of VM protection, backup vm, replicate VM and repository usage.

6. Under Manage tab, view your job and & perform recovery.

That's all on the quick walkthrough

Do check it out and tested it yourself. To download, click here.

How to Backup MacBook Pro?

In this post, we are going to look into how to backup your existing Macbook Pro. Tool that we are going to use is default tool called "Time Machine".

Preparation:-
a) External HDD larger than your Macbook Pro. Make sure it is empty as any data inside will be erased.
b) Macbook Pro
c) Asus Router (optional). You can plug your HDD directly to the macbook pro. For my case, my hdd is plugged to Asus Router. I love asus router as it has multiple capabilities such as file share, download torrent movie, firewall, vpn , media server & lastly Time Machine target. Check out below screenshot on the capabilities.

Access the router UI

Let get started by select USB Application | Time Machine

Enable Time Machine, select the HDD (hard disk) and click Apply
We have completed the router configuration. Next step you need to configure Time Machine from your MacBook.

Enter Time Machine Preference program, select Disk which is pointing to your Asus Router. Provide the credential to access to the router & you are good to go.

* recommend using Ethernet for 1st time full backup.

That should do the trick and you may check if your existing router support this feature.

Enjoy!

How to Create an Empty Folder for VAO Templates?

In this post, we are going to look on how to create an empty folder for VAO Template to re-protect VM.

When you want to create a backup job for VAO Template, you cannot select Host, Cluster or VM. You should point to an empty folder.

To do so, follow this steps:

1. Access to vcenter console
2. On the Host, right click select New Folder | New VM and Template Folder. Name it "Empty for VAO'

3. Return to Veeam Backup Console, create a new job with description put [VAO TEMPLATE].

4. Navigate to VM & Templates object & select "Empty for VAO" folder

5. Final result your job should consist only Empty Folder with the size 0.

That should do the trick! Complete the wizard to create a VAO Template to reprotect your VM.