- Mac already has at least three excellent options. Time Machine for the very simple needs and SuperDuper for more advanced needs. Arq is great for cloud based backup (mostly for user data, not bare metal, and offers encryption prior to leaving the local computer).
- The FREE standalone Veeam® Agent for Microsoft Windows provides a simple solution for backing up Windows-based desktops, laptops and tablets With Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows FREE. So, you can easily back up your computer to an external hard drive, network-attached storage (NAS) share or a Veeam Backup & Replication™ repository.
We support several dozen businesses that are primarily Mac shops. These customers currently pay us for managed backups, but because Veeam doesn't support Mac we have to use another service. It would be great if Veeam offered Mac support, because then we could backup these agents using the same method and repositories that we already have setup.
During Veeam replication jobs, your vCenter triggers the VM MAC conflict alarm. This happens because when a VM replica is created, it has the same MAC address and UUID as the original VM. This situation is totally expected because a newly created replica is an absolute copy of the original VM with exactly the same properties. This doesn’t create any issue, since the replicated virtual machine is not powered on, but more importantly because vCenter changes both replica’s MAC address and UUID. So, the issue is gone after a few moments, but the alarm remains in the console and it may be annoying. So, here’s how you can suppress the alarm.
First, we identify the error:
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The alarm is defined and configued at the vCenter level. If you try to modify it directly inside the virtual machine alarms, you will notice that the Edit button will be disabled. In order to edit the alarm, we need to move all the way up into the tree on the left menu, select the vCenter itself and look at its Alarm Definitions. In this way, the Alarm can be edited:
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Here, we don’t want to completely disable the alarm, as a MAC conflict can be a real issue if it happens for production virtual machines. But for Veeam replication jobs, we know that the conflict is not an issue, so we want to differentiate the two conditions. This can be easily done, because by default every Veeam replica VM is created with the _replica suffix in its name. So, we define this specific condition in the alarm:
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As soon as we save the new version of the alarm, the error for the replicated VM immediately disappears, but if a “real” MAC conflict will happen in the future, the alarm will still be triggered.