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Veeam: How-to Deploy, and Configure MinIO with Erasure Coding Enabled, Immutability, and Let’s Encrypt

Greetings friends, just a few days ago Veeam officially announced the support for MinIO Immutability on its HCL. This is wonderful news for us to test this functionality in our labs, or in case we are using Linux storage with MinIO for production.In this blog entry, we're going to jump into the pool and see: how to install and configure MinIO with Erasure Coding Enabled, Immutability, Let's Encrypt, and finally, we'll see how to configure it in Veeam. As it has gone out of my hands, I leave you with a menu to move faster:
  1. MinIO System Requirements
    1. What is MinIO Erasure Coding?
    2. Why use MinIO Erasure Coding?
    3. Disk Configuration to use MinIO Erasure Coding
  2. How-to Deploy, and Configure MinIO, including object Immutability, and Let’s Encrypt
    1. How-to configure  Let's Encrypt for MinIO
    2. Run MinIO with Erasure Coding
    3. Creating a new Bucket in MinIO with the Immutability attribute
  3. Veeam Backup & Replication Configuration with Immutable Storage
    1. Backup Repository Creation – Object Storage
    2. Scale-out Backup Repository Creation – with MinIO Immutable as Capacity Tier
    3. Backup Copy Job creation, pointing to this new SOBR with Immutability
    4. Trying to delete Backups from an Object Storage with Immutability Enabled

MinIO System Requirements

In this guide, we are not going to try to deploy MinIO in production, as it usually requires about 96GB of RAM, certain cores, etc. In my case I am deploying everything in 4vCPU and 16GB of RAM since I will have only one VBR sending backups, so nothing serious.One of the most important things to be able to run Immutability in MinIO, and that it is supported by Veeam, is that we need the MinIO RELEASE.2020-07-12T19-14-17Z version or higher, and also we need the MinIO server to be running with Erasure Coding.
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HackGato Key Light – Alternative to Elgato Key Light

Greetings friends, since a few months ago my number of calls has increased considerably, either with clients or with the team or family, I spend many hours in front of the camera. In another entry, I showed you how to give a professional look with OBS, and I also told you that headphones are perfect for these long periods of computer, with sublime quality of audio input and microphone.Today I come to talk about the last component to make our videos or video calls, look perfect, I am talking about the lighting. In this tutorial, we will see a step by step with the necessary components to build our own HackGato Key Light: lighting power, flexibility, and comfort.
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Veeam: How to Secure your Veeam Backup for AWS v2 instance with a Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate

Greetings friends, a few days ago I was showing you everything we need to know about Veeam Backup for AWS v2, in case you haven't been paying attention, I'm posting the blog here (in Spanish): Today I bring you one more step on how to correctly secure our instance of Veeam Backup for AWS v2.To do this we will rely on Let's Encrypt, the famous open-source project that allows us to generate free SSL certificates.NOTE: This process is not officially supported by Veeam, and any consequence of following the steps incorrectly, or any incidence derived from these steps will leave us without support. We will have to deploy the appliance again, keep that in mind!
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Veeam: How to connect our Veeam Backup & Replication to Veeam Backup for Azure

Greetings friends, we have already seen in the previous posts that Veeam had launched Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure Free Edition, the solution to protect workloads in Microsoft Azure without the need of agents. Also, and as we all like it, with a free version of up to 10 Instances. In addition, we have seen how to deploy it step by step, and its subsequent configuration as well, today we are going to see how to configure Veeam Backup & Replication to access the backups created by Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure and stored in Azure Blob.If we look at the following diagram, we would be talking about points 5, 6, and 7:
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Veeam: An in-depth look at the new Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure- Creating Backup and Restore Policies

Greetings friends, we have already seen in the previous entry that Veeam had launched Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure Free Edition, the solution to protect workloads in Microsoft Azure without the need of agents. Also, and as we all like it, with a free version of up to 10 Instances. Besides, we have seen how to deploy it step by step, today we are going to see how to configure and create policies in Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure.
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Veeam: How to Deploy Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure – step by step

Greetings friends, we have already seen in the previous entry that Veeam had launched Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure Free Edition, the solution to protect workloads in Microsoft Azure without the need of agents. Also, and as we all like it, with a free version of up to 10 Instances. Let's see the step by step to deploy Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure.

Deploy Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure Free Edition

Before deploying Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure Free Edition we will need to have several instances of Azure VM running, security groups created, VPC, etc. I guess we are interested in this solution and I consider all this done.We will go to the Microsoft Azure Marketplace and if we search "veeam" we will find the product, we will click on Create to continue:
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Veeam: Veeam announces Veeam Backup for Azure Free Edition

Greetings friends Veeam has announced its free version for the protection of workloads in Azure, Veeam Backup for Azure, now available in the Azure Marketplace.

What is Veeam Backup for Azure Free Edition?

Veeam Backup for Azure Free Edition is a native Azure VM workload protection solution. This means that Veeam snapshots the volumes of each instance and allows us to later launch a copy to a Blob Storage repository, for much longer retention.Veeam Backup for Azure Free Edition provides unlimited restores of any Veeam Backup for Azure, and allows backups of up to 10 Azure VMs. Veeam Backup for Azure provides secure, cost-effective, native cloud-based backup and recovery of Azure VM instances. Easily recover any data loss scenario in the cloud, whether due to disruption, accidental deletion, malware, and more, in minutes.
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Veeam: How to Secure your Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure instance with a Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate

Greetings friends, a few weeks ago I was showing you everything we need to know about Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure, in case you haven't been paying attention, I'm posting the blog series here (in Spanish): This whole series is very complete and I hope you like it. Today I bring you one more step on how to correctly secure our instance of Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure.To do this we will rely on Let's Encrypt, the famous open-source project that allows us to generate free SSL certificates.NOTE: This process is not officially supported by Veeam, and any consequence of following the steps incorrectly, or any incidence derived from these steps will leave us without support. We will have to deploy the appliance again, keep that in mind!
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OBS: How to get professional, and informative-looking video calls

Greetings friends, we have been working from home for several months now, as much as possible, and video calls have become very popular, in fact, the preferred way for social interaction, with clients, etc.Although it is known that backgrounds are now very fashionable, and everyone is free to use them, I see more professional some backgrounds that look like offices, or even the blurring of the background more than enough if we are in our bedroom, it always depends on who we talk to and everything.Today I bring you some steps to get something similar to the following, which is just adding some titles on the image of your camera:In order to do that we're going to need:
  • A webcam, I use a Canon Alpha 6000 with an Elgato
  • Game Capture HD60.
  • A Windows PC, Linux, or Mac, works in all.
  • OBS Studio
  • NDI Plugin for OBS
  • NDI Tools
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Looking for the Perfect Dashboard: InfluxDB, Telegraf, and Grafana – Part XXV (Monitoring Power Consumption)

Greetings friends, for some time now I have been thinking and thinking about how I could monitor all the electricity consumption in my house, I have found many different ways, and in the end, I have opted for the cheapest and simplest.Once you have finished this tutorial, you will have something similar to this, it is better to give it several days or weeks to see the full potential:
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