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VADA – Veeam Architecture Diagram Assistant

Sat, 18 Apr 2026 15:58:50 +0800

So this one’s been in my head for a while. Something I kept running into, whether it’s tenders, customer conversations, or just internal planning, is that someone always needs a diagram. Everyone has their tool of choice: Draw.io, Excalidraw, Visio, and none of them know anything about Veeam. You’re always starting from scratch, hunting for the right icons, trying to remember which components connect to what.

Using AI for More Than Coding

Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:29:00 +0800

I know, I know, you’re probably exhausted hearing about AI. It’s everywhere, it’s in every conversation, every product announcement, every LinkedIn post. But I want to talk about it anyway, because my experience with it has gotten genuinely interesting and maybe a little uncomfortable, and I think it’s worth sharing.

I use AI every single day. It’s just part of the workflow now, Claude Code is open, Copilot is open, and I don’t really think twice about it anymore. That’s kind of the whole point of this post though. Because the question I’ve started asking myself isn’t “is AI impressive?”…it absolutely is,the question is whether it’s actually making me work better, or whether it just makes me feel faster. There’s a difference, and I’m not sure I’ve always been on the right side of it.

Advent Calendar Day 20: Backup Job Pre and Post Scripts

Sat, 20 Dec 2025 07:00:00 +0800

Advent Calendar Day 20: Automating with Pre and Post Job Scripts

Welcome to Day 20 of our Veeam Blog Advent Calendar! Today we’re exploring a powerful automation feature: pre and post job scripts for backup jobs.

This is really a nifty little feature that genuiely gets overlooked to often and when I talk to customer who have pretty custom environment I look to this feature to help me out as it allows us to play outside the box a little bit by creating custom workflows for otherwise tricky applications.

Advent Calendar Day 16: VMware Tags - Dynamic Backup Automation

Tue, 16 Dec 2025 06:00:00 +0800

Advent Calendar Day 16: Let Tags Do the Work

Welcome to Day 16 of our Veeam Blog Advent Calendar! Today we’re going to take a look at how we can automate backups and create a more dynamic policy-based approach to our backups.

In most cases, the infrastructure admins and the backup admins are two different teams, and sometimes a new workload gets created and the message never reaches the backup team to add the workload to the required backups. This could mean a Tier 1 workload gets missed from regular backups or gets added to the incorrect policy and doesn’t meet your compliance needs.

Advent Calendar Day 11: Taking Stock and Looking Ahead

Thu, 11 Dec 2025 07:00:00 +0800

Advent Calendar Day 11: A Quick Recap and What’s Coming Next

Welcome to Day 11 of our Veeam Blog Advent Calendar! We’re nearly halfway through our festive countdown to Christmas, and honestly, what a journey it’s been so far! I figured today would be a perfect opportunity to take a breath, look back at what we’ve covered over the past ten days, and chat about where we’re heading for the rest of the month.

Advent Calendar Day 7: Utilizing Veeam Intelligence with VeeamONE

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

Advent Calendar Day 7: Integrating AI Intelligence with VeeamONE

Disclaimer: I’m not a professional developer, and this content is intended to demonstrate the “art of the possible” rather than serve as production-ready guidance. Use these features with caution, and test thoroughly in your environment before relying on them for critical tasks.

Welcome to Day 7 of our Veeam Blog Advent Calendar! Over the last few days, we have spent a lot of time in automation, creating PowerShell scripts and N8N workflows and really seeing the power of automation. Today, I’d like to switch gears a little bit—still on the automation front—but rather than us writing our own code, let’s take a look at Veeam Intelligence.

Advent Calendar Day 6: Building Veeam Workflows with N8N (Part 2)

Sat, 06 Dec 2025 07:00:00 +0800

Advent Calendar Day 6: Building Veeam Workflows with N8N (Part 2)

Disclaimer: I’m not a professional developer, and this content is intended to demonstrate the “art of the possible” rather than serve as production-ready guidance. Use these features with caution, and test thoroughly in your environment before relying on them for critical tasks.

Welcome to Day 6 of our Veeam Blog Advent Calendar! Over the past few days, we’ve been on quite a journey. We explored the Veeam REST API, learned to use it with PowerShell, and yesterday we set up N8N. Today, we’re bringing it all together to create a powerful security automation workflow that could be a game-changer for your environment.

Advent Calendar Day 5: Setting Up N8N for Workflow Automation (Part 1)

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 06:00:00 +0800

Advent Calendar Day 5: Setting Up N8N for Workflow Automation (Part 1)

Disclaimer: I’m not a professional developer, and this content is intended to demonstrate the “art of the possible” rather than serve as production-ready guidance. Use these features with caution, and test thoroughly in your environment before relying on them for critical tasks.

Welcome to Day 5 of our Veeam Blog Advent Calendar! Over the past few days, we’ve been exploring the Veeam REST API through Swagger and PowerShell scripts. Today, we’re taking automation to the next level by introducing N8N (pronounced “n-eight-n”), a powerful workflow automation tool that’s about to change how you think about integrations.

Advent Calendar Day 4: Getting Hands-On with the Veeam REST API

Thu, 04 Dec 2025 07:00:00 +0800

Advent Calendar Day 4: Getting Hands-On with the Veeam REST API

Disclaimer: I’m not a professional developer, and this content is intended to demonstrate the “art of the possible” rather than serve as production-ready guidance. Use these features with caution, and test thoroughly in your environment before relying on them for critical tasks.

Welcome back to Day 4 of our Veeam Blog Advent Calendar! Yesterday we explored the Veeam REST API through Swagger and learned about what’s new in V13.0.1. Today, we’re rolling up our sleeves and getting practical, I’m going to show you how to actually use the API with PowerShell and CLI tools to accomplish real-world tasks.

Advent Calendar Day 3: Exploring the Veeam Backup & Replication REST API

Wed, 03 Dec 2025 07:00:00 +0800

Advent Calendar Day 3: Exploring the Veeam Backup & Replication REST API

Disclaimer: I’m not a professional developer, and this content is intended to demonstrate the “art of the possible” rather than serve as production-ready guidance. Use these features with caution, and test thoroughly in your environment before relying on them for critical tasks.

Welcome to Day 3 of our Veeam Blog Advent Calendar! We’re continuing our automation theme today, and I couldn’t be more excited to dive into one of my favorite topics: the Veeam Backup & Replication REST API.

Advent Calendar Day 2: Converting Kasten Helm Commands

Tue, 02 Dec 2025 07:00:00 +0800

Advent Calendar Day 2: Converting Kasten Helm Commands to Repeatable YAML

Disclaimer: I’m not a professional developer, and this content is intended to demonstrate the “art of the possible” rather than serve as production-ready guidance. Use these features with caution, and test thoroughly in your environment before relying on them for critical tasks.

Welcome back to Day 2 of our Veeam Blog Advent Calendar! Yesterday we kicked things off with an introduction to the series, and today we’re diving straight into our first topic: Automation.

Veeam Blog Advent Calendar 2025: Unwrapping 24 Days of Backup Magic

Mon, 01 Dec 2025 07:00:00 +0800

Welcome to the Veeam Blog Advent Calendar!

Hello everyone, and welcome to December! As we approach the festive season, I’m absolutely thrilled to kick off something special, a Veeam Blog Advent Calendar that will take us right through to Christmas Eve!

Think of this as your daily dose of Veeam goodness, unwrapping a new topic each day as we count down to the holidays. Whether you’re sipping hot cocoa by the fire or catching up during your lunch break, I’ll be here sharing insights, tips, and discoveries from the world of Veeam Backup & Replication.