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Advent Calendar Day 22: SureBackup Part 2 - Advanced Configuration

Mon, 22 Dec 2025 07:00:00 +0800

Advent Calendar Day 22: SureBackup Part 2 - Deep Dive Configuration

Welcome to Day 22 of our Veeam Blog Advent Calendar!

Yesterday we introduced SureBackup with the creation of our virtual labs and application groups. Today we’re going to walk through creating the SureBackup job and understanding what can be done once we have this all setup, how to use it for testing, validation, and even forensic analysis.

Advent Calendar Day 21: SureBackup Part 1 - Introduction

Sun, 21 Dec 2025 07:00:00 +0800

Advent Calendar Day 21: SureBackup Part 1 - Automated Backup Verification

Welcome to Day 21 of our Veeam Blog Advent Calendar! Today we’re starting a two-part series on one of Veeam’s most impressive features: SureBackup.

We have mentioned a few times already about features that fly under the radar but this is genuinely the biggest one that goes unnoticed, every time this gets brought up in conversation it’s like really? Veeam can do that? and the answer is YES it’s been in the product for many versions already!

Advent Calendar Day 18: Compare with Production for Active Directory

Thu, 18 Dec 2025 07:00:00 +0800

Advent Calendar Day 18: Finding What Changed in Active Directory

Welcome to Day 18 of our Veeam Blog Advent Calendar! Today we’re exploring a powerful feature for Active Directory recovery: Compare with Production.

When something goes wrong in AD, you often need to know what changed. Was a user account modified? Did group membership change? Veeam’s Compare with Production makes finding these changes simple.

Advent Calendar Day 15: Backup Move - Seamless Backup Migration

Mon, 15 Dec 2025 07:00:00 +0800

Advent Calendar Day 15: Moving Backups Without Breaking a Sweat

Welcome to Day 15 of our Veeam Blog Advent Calendar! Today we’re talking about a feature that might seem simple on the surface but is absolutely brilliant when you need it: Backup Move.

Need to migrate backups between repositories? Want to move them to faster storage, or maybe to the cloud? Backup Move does this while preserving all your deduplication and compression savings. This feature has been out for some time now but man when it came out this blew my mind and made life so much easier for hardware refreshes or customer migrations, it was definitely a quality of life upgrade we needed.

Advent Calendar Day 12: VeeamZIP - The Unsung Hero of Quick Backups

Fri, 12 Dec 2025 07:00:00 +0800

Advent Calendar Day 12: VeeamZIP - Small Feature, Big Impact

Welcome to Day 12 of our Veeam Blog Advent Calendar! Today we’re kicking off the “fun stuff” portion of our advent journey, and I can’t think of a better feature to start with than VeeamZIP.

If you’ve never heard of VeeamZIP, you’re not alone. It’s one of those features that quietly sits in the Veeam Backup & Replication interface, not making a fuss, but absolutely saving the day when you need it. Let me tell you why this little feature deserves way more love than it gets.