Open the backup infrastructure view, rightclick the virtual labs node under surebackup in the inventory pane and select add virtual lab vmware. The path is the testscriptfilepath observed in the xml files plus the full path, giving us c. Third, its possible to add extra custom checks to veeam surebackup. The ultimate veeam productionreplica test lab step by. It amazes me that people will spend thousands on software or a cloud. In the surebackup job we define which way we can test how the backups are verified you can define for instance heartbeat tests with vmware integration tools, ping tests and if you define which roles the vms you will automatically use some predefined scripts against the vms. The 2012r2 dc vm testing job starts fine, network adapters map correctly, vm starts correctly, but does not start any of the hyperv intergration services in the test vm, and the job fails on the heartbeat test, all the services are enabled in the hyperv setting for this vm that has been created by surebackup, and the production vm has all. On my sql server that failed the script test, how can i check port 1433 on tcpip is running and configured correctly. In 2012 and 2012 r2, powershell functionality is greatly enhanced and good example is the resolvednsname cmdlet. If you do not add a new route, tests and application scripts will fail and you will not be able to access vms in isolated networks. This script is meant as a surebackup testvalidation script for vcenter server to. The surebackup job aggregates all settings and policies of the recovery verification task, such as application group and virtual lab to be used, vm backups that must be verified in the virtual lab and so on. Contacting veeam software resource planning dns resolution veeam backup server. When a surebackup job is executed the static routes to reach the masqueraded networks are temporarily added to the routing table on the veeam backup server.
When youre done upgrading the application or moving to server 2016, reset the virtual labthe changes are discarded and the host resources are reclaimed by the host servers. This is no good because without the dc booting normally you have no dns, no global catalog or any of the other domain controller goodness for the rest of your servers launching behind it in the lab. But the script also supports sql server authentication, so you can quite easily set up a test account in your sql instances with minimum privileges and use these. One way to do this, is by scheduling a tasks, that constantly checks the connection and restart the connection if it failed for my test, i just disabled the surebackup schedule and made a small powershell script. Checking backup images on regular basis helps administrators to prevent errors during the restore process in. Other values in the return code mean that the script has failed. Weve been dealing with an issue for past few runs of our monthly surebackup jobs where the domain controller boots into safe mode and stays there. Now you have to make sure that the connection is of course on when you start the surebackup test. Automation testing means using an automation tool to execute your test case suite. An example would be if you have a critical web application. Backup recovery verification tests veeam backup guide for.
As soon as the job is starting the veeam surebackup configuration will compile the proxy appliance used by the virtual lab and and publish the temporary domain controller vm directly from the backup file. Backup recovery verification tests veeam backup guide. To get started open the backup infrastructure view, select the virtual labs node under surebackup in the inventory pane and click add virtual lab vmware on the ribbon. Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and. The second way to configure the test scripts is on the edit page by selection use the following test script. Modern ides like visual studio have a version control mechanism. Today they introduced their latest surebackup technology.
Weve been using surebackup for automatic restore point verification, but a large software update thats coming down the pipeline was a really good excuse to get a semipersistent lab running this post goes through the process of setting up a lab from start to finish. Setting up external access to a veeam surebackup virtual lab. Surebackup scripts veeam software community forums. Veeam software is a privately held information technology company that develops backup, disaster recovery and virtualization management software for vmware and hyperv virtual environments. Is it possible to implement more complex scripts in surebackup. I hacked it together today, so please reread the whole script to surebackup my coding skills.
You dont have to deploy new virtual servers only because of a new software release. Surebackup test scripts veeam software community forums. The company focuses on products that increase the resistance of virtualized workloads, reduce downtime, and ensure the system availability required by. We are getting the vmware heartbeat, a ping test successful, and then scripts used to confirm services are running. Veeam automatic backup tests with surebackup driftars. During this time veeam surebackup will run the verification tests as configured in the sbroles or simply test scripts.
Surebackup job processing veeam backup guide for hyperv. You dont have to deploy new virtual servers for patch testing. The registry entries for these commands are added to the registry by the application installer office, visual studio and are not usually user configurable. Understanding of networks is needed for a succesful testing of your backups using surebackup. And with veeam vpower, veeam is taking backup to a whole new level and using virtualization to do things never before possible. Applicationspecific testing uses scripts and is enabled based on the roles. Surebackup allows a fully representative sandbox of the running configuration to be made available. There are also scripts that can be used to use virtual labs to automate the backup validation process, also known as surebackup. Go into the surebackup job and under linked jobs, select the vm you want to run the test script on and select edit. Linux scripts will use a utility software called plink. By more complex i mean like have a powershell or vbscript running on the verified server itself, not on the veeam backup server. Test results are written to the job session details. You can write your own test scripts to test things you are concerned about.
Thanks for contributing an answer to stack overflow. One is simply that the network is not configured properly. Over the last day or so ive been setting up a sandboxvirtual lab which leverages our veeam backups. Could be to verify certain databases in exchange, send an email, check a certain service can start, etc. Veeam surebackup for domain controller verification job. As stated by veeam, surebackup can automatically test and verify every backup. To verify vms with a surebackup job, you can instruct veeam backup. To creates this object, run the newvbrsurebackuptestscript cmdlet.
Newvbrsurebackuptestscript veeam backup powershell. Veeams new surebackup technology arnim van lieshout. Surebackup and exchange uair with veeam marius sandbu. Solved veeam surebackup exchange test failure vmware. The automation software can also enter test data into the system under test, compare expected and actual results and generate detailed test reports. This script is meant as a surebackup test validation script for vcenter server to ensure it is functional when brought up in. I say hopefully because i know after working with lots of customers install, design, and troubleshoot. Surebackup leverages the capabilities of the virtual lab appliance to create an isolated.
My testing cycle involves launching a web site from my vside f. And while this may sound like a typical marketing operation to turn old things into something new, the reality is that surebackup includes at least a brand new, remarkable technology. Quote from veeam a surebackup job is a task for recovery verification. Veeam automatic backup tests with surebackup driftars blog. This feature is designed to allow for automated testing via scripts of groups of your backups. Veeam 7 surebackup is a feature that runs some checks against backed up vms inside an independent network virtual lab on a esxi host to verify a successful backup the verification doesnt have any impact in the production environment since the process runs in an isolated network. Already, veeam software has made enhanced data protection and disaster recovery a reality for more than 15,000 customers. Leverage your backups for patch testing, development and other stuff. Veeam, an industry leader in backup technology, has come to the rescue. Test all that stuff with your surebackup lab to see if everything works as it. Powershell get errorwarning message of failed vms in. Backup and recovery best practices with veeam backup.
Ive just completed some testing and, sure enough, im still amazed at this feature. Through some testing i was able to add a custom check for file share, vm service and vm process. The cmdlet will modify a name of the script to the specified. A test script is a set of instructions written using a scriptingprogramming language that is performed on a system under test to verify that the system performs as expected. The first one is just a simple batch file, the other two consists of a batch file calling a powershell script which is checking a service or process running. So every time the backup of ad occurs, after it is done the most recent backup is used to do the test and confirm all good. A test script in software testing is a set of instructions that will be performed on the system under test to test that the system functions as expected.
Once the file is created the next step is to create a new veeam surebackup job which includes the application group for oracle database server and the newly created veeam custom surebackup configuration file. You can collect test objects from gui mockup and create test scripts while application is. This of course makes it impractical to use windows authentication to test sql server consistency. Surebackup sql script verification it says to use netstat ban and i get a load of information, but nothing comes up as the localhost or ip of my sql server along with port 1433. This script is meant as a surebackup test validation script for vcenter server to ensure it is functional when brought up in a lab environment. Major updates or version upgrades can be hard to test. Application gui mockup test automation zaptest offers an approach to automating testing at the very beginning of the software development lifecycle shiftleft starting at the application design phase. For example, the surebackup framework supports powershell. If the return code is equal to 0, the script is considered to complete successfully. In the test script tab there is the list of verification test to run and in particular the test with network port 1521 as desired. Few people visit this topic, but you can actually extend the framework. Test the virtual labs with the application groups to ensure that surebackup, uair or sandbox processing are functional before making the services available to veeam backup enterprise manager requests.
You can create an application group that includes both the database server and. I have added a startup script to the exchange server which repeats every few minutes for a short period of time to ensure that all the stalled services plus a few other essential ones were started. This is not a test where a vm is restored and considered good. Enterprise and enterprise plus editions offer automated recovery verification, including support for application test scripts and bulk vm testing. I realise this is an unusual case resulting from a specific combination of software installed on. Fixing domain controller boot in veeam surebackup labs. But the script also supports sql server authentication, so you can quite easily set up a test account in your sql instances with minimum. The setup of the virtual lab can be a bit complex if your infrastructure has several virtual machines located in different subnets. Setvbrsurebackuptestscript veeam backup powershell. To pass credentials via the ui, in the application group or surebackup job settings, select to use a custom script, specify a path to the microsoft sql server checker script by default, c. Surebackup script for testing vcenter server hopefully everyone who is using veeam is also using surebackup to test and validate their backups are good. Custom surebackup job with veeam for application verification. When you do, you know how time consuming this process is and even when you do a test restore, you are actually only testing that particular backup. Test all that stuff with your surebackup lab to see if everything works as it should.
It is important to include a success exit status on script to let veeam surebackup job to include this in the main job report. The fact that is supports powershell makes it quite simple to write more extensive test. First of all, surebackup is not the name of a single new capability. You cant possibly test every backup in your environment. This cmdlet creates the vbrsurebackuptestscript object that defines recovery verification scripts for vms that are added to application groups and to jobs that are linked to surebackup jobs. If the ping test succeeds, we move on to the script role portion of the surebackup job.
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