I’m excited to share a brand-new community-driven integration that brings real-time visibility and control of your Veeam Backup & Replication environment directly into Home Assistant! As always, a big shoutout to @mkevenaar for encouraging my crazy ideas like this, mainly through rubber duck debugging and alpha testing. 🔗 Project: https://github.com/Cenvora/ha-veeam-br💡 Purpose: Surface…
Veeam has released a major update to its Proxmox Virtual Environment Plug-in with version 13.2.0.457, included in Veeam Backup & Replication v13/v13.0.1. Building on the earlier V12.1.3.197 release, this new version expands support for Proxmox VE 9.0, adds inline malware detection, introduces application-aware backups, and updates the granular permissions model…
Modern WordPress attacks don’t just target your login page—they probe XML-RPC, brute-force APIs, enumerate plugins, scan theme directories, drop PHP shells into /wp-content/, and hit known backdoor filenames like style.php. A secure WordPress deployment in 2025 requires a layered, defense-in-depth architecture where each system blocks threats at the level where…
Modern ransomware and destructive attacks increasingly target backup systems. A compromise of your backup infrastructure can eliminate your last line of defense and make recovery impossible. Ensuring backup resiliency requires layered, interlocking protections across: Identity and access management Privileged operations Network segmentation and isolation Out-of-band hardware access Storage immutability and…
Native Backups & S3-Compatible Storage After the 2025.1 Overhaul Back in my original article — Safeguarding Home Assistant: 3-2-1 Backups Using rclone, S3, and Veeam 12.1 — I walked through building a fully off-site, fully automated backup pipeline. That method used rclone jobs, encrypted S3 storage, and even Veeam tiering…