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Omarchy is taking the Linux Desktop and developer community by storm, standing out as a serious contender for the year of the Linux Desktop. My daily driver for some time now has been Manjaro Linux, which is Arch Linux-based. A hurdle—though we don’t let hurdles get in the way of a good story and use case—is support. The Veeam Agent for Linux officially supports enterprise and LTS distributions like RHEL, Rocky, Alma, Ubuntu, Debian, SLES, and Fedora. Arch Linux isn’t on that official matrix, but spoiler alert: I have it protecting my rolling-release desktop just fine. Gotchas Support aside, a couple of things can tripRead More →

Many of us are learning new tech are doing it for one reason—to get a new job. That’s valid, but it completely changes how you study, often leading straight into tutorial hell and forgotten fundamentals. When I set out to map 90DaysOfDevOps, and now while tackling data engineering, my baseline was different. I wanted to build, break, and understand the mechanics simply because the space interested me. Whether you’re trying to pivot careers or just add a new superpower to your home lab, here is the blueprint I follow to actually make new technologies stick. Today, this challenge is amplified even more by AI. WeRead More →

Internally at Veeam we have been working on the Application Backup Repository for a few months, and since hearing about this I wanted a way to be able to demonstrate the ability to send my database backups to these NFS exports. I could not find an existing tool out there that would enable me to hit all the different database types. So in the world of AI accelerating our ideas to reality I got to work on a demo tool, simply called “DBSched” You can find out what the Veeam Application Backup Repository is here below. As I said I wanted a demo app thatRead More →

A common request I have seen within the community is ”Can Veeam protect LXC Containers in Proxmox?” and whilst this is being researched, I wanted to share a workaround that I have been using in my homelab. I posted about the Application Backup Repository We start by creating a fresh new Application Backup Repository for our LXC backups within Veeam Backup & Replication. Now we head over to our Proxmox environment to add the new NFS Export. Select the datacenter and then Storage Click add and select NFS Give it a name, The server will be your ABR Server The Export will be the pathRead More →

Last week the general availability of the Veeam Data Platform 13.1 went live and there have been some great blog posts highlighting the big ticket items that came in this minor release. Brad put together this post on the themes around 13.1 and targeted areas to continue to enable our customers to protect their ever changing estates. https://www.veeam.com/blog/veeam-data-platform-v13-1-identity-cyber-ai.html Anthony got into some of this but has a focus around the hypervisor support and continued coverage we continue to strive to help our customers protect their virtual machines. I wanted to take one of those features that I actually believe could be a pretty big dealRead More →

Yesterday we wrote down a plan. Today we started the plan. We started this course linked above, it had a bit of everything I was looking for the foundations. We are around 2 hours in and I decided that might be a good time to look back over the notes and look at the additional areas that have been mentioned already that we need to get into. I am not going to reinvent the wheel here, If you are interested then get into this first. I would say you can take the first hour and learn something. The next hour was more talking about technologiesRead More →

Hey, it’s been a while…. This is me writing though not another AI dumped bit of content, equally this is for me more than anyone else, its a line in the sand, a commitment of starting a new learning journey and putting it out there for everyone to see. (I did however use AI on the images) For those that know me, I have been a constant and consistent learner. I started my IT career with hardware—building servers for Cambridge University, getting server operating systems up and running, and handling systems administration and operations. That was before the virtualization era. From there, I moved toRead More →

Virtual Machines on Kubernetes is a thing so I thought it would be a good idea to run through how to get the Veeam Software Appliance up and running on KubeVirt which will also translate to enterprise variants that use KubeVirt to enable virtualization on top of Kubernetes such as Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization and SUSE Harvester. I wrote about the Veeam Software Appliance and ran through the steps to get the system up and running as the brains of your backup environment along with some of the benefits it brings. For those familiar with the process I took in the above link in vSphere,Read More →

A few times a year, my home lab gets bounced for whatever reason and generally because I have the vSphere vCenter living on top of the 5 ESXi nodes this causes an issue where when the hosts come back up we are lacking a fully functional vCenter, probably need to consider a better approach but here we are. I am able to get into the vCenter Server Management console at https://192.168.169.181:5480 a port etched into my brain for some reason! But when we head to services we have many that are not running and they should be. I check the access settings and ensure thatRead More →