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I updated my backup-server to 13.1.2.57 (from 13.1.1.18) yesterday … today an agent-backup-job for an OpenSUSE 16.0 vm failes with "Warning : Skipping dbackup.bct-tech.local: operating system is not supported".What the heck is that? It’s not mentioned in the release-notes, that machine-components where updated without a problem and now this? Honestly? Did an ai-agent run on that and another one doing the code-review?My swear-filter is on … i have to stop here … :-)

 Introduction I had been dealing with an intermittent VMware backup issue that was difficult to explain from a single failed session. A job could complete successfully on one run and fail on the next with the same message: DiskLib error 13, followed by a failure to create an NFC download stream.As I investigated, I noticed that the failures were part of a wider operational problem. Backup jobs overlapped, some sessions waited for resources, and DRS movements became noticeable around backup execution. Storage snapshots were also remaining after backup activity, while physical storage capacity was approaching its limit.The environment had 27 VMware backup jobs with hourly schedules and more than 300 VMs. For version context, the environment was reported as running Veeam Backup & Replication 13.0.1.1071, VMware vCenter 8.0.3, and an IBM FlashSystem FS5200.The investigation led me to reconsider how the jobs shared hosts, datastores, and storage volumes. Discussing protection requiremen

Recently I found myself in a situation where I needed to update the license on a Veeam Data Platform 13.x environment after the subscription had already expired.I figured it would be a quick job. Upload a new licence, refresh everything, and move on with my day.It turned out to be a little more interesting than that.The First Problem The first thing I noticed was that I could no longer connect using the Veeam Backup & Replication Console.Instead, I was greeted with the following error:"Failed to connect to backup server localhost. Make sure it's online and running V13 or later."At that point I wasn't entirely sure whether I had a licensing issue, a service issue, or something more serious going on. Screenshot : VBR Console connection errorTrying the Web Console InsteadMy next thought was to see if I could get in through the Web Console.The browser connected successfully, which was at least a positive sign. It meant the server was alive and responding.I clicked Proceed, expecting to

 Net terug van de Veeam 100 Summit 2026 in Lissabon waar Veeam Vanguards, Legends, Rising Stars en Product Strategy-leiders samenkwamen om diep in te gaan op data resilience, cloud-native bescherming en de toekomstige roadmap.We brengen de informatie die we mogen delen naar onze eigen BeLux community! We nodigen je van harte uit voor de laatste fysieke Veeam User Group (VUG) BeLux meetup van het jaar op 3 december 2026. Of je nu je virtualisatie-omgeving wilt moderniseren, je Veeam-beheer wilt centraliseren, of benieuwd bent naar wat er binnenkort aankomt vanuit Veeam R&D: dit is een namiddag die je niet wilt missen. 📅 Datum: Donderdag 3 december 2026 🕑 Tijd: 14:00 – 17:00 CET (gevolgd een hapje en een drankje!) 📍 Locatie: Savaco - Gent Office Sluisweg 2, Blue Tower 2, 9000 Gent- 📋 Op de agenda:  14:00 – Verwelkoming door VUG Leaders Nico & Kristof 14:05 – Introductie door onze gastheer Savaco 14:15 – Introduction to OpenShift Virtualization door Timothy Dewin (Speciali

If you run a Veeam Hardened Repository (VHR) that was installed with the Managed Hardened Repository ISO, there is no way around the upgrade to the Veeam Infrastructure Appliance (VIA) with Veeam Backup & Replication 13: after upgrading to v13, the Hardened Repositories must be upgraded to the VIA. But before you boot the VIA ISO and click “Upgrade”, there is one thing you need to know for sure: Which version of the Hardened Repository is actually running on the system?The version is essential for the upgrade, because the upgrade path is not intended for every release. Veeam describes the upgrade via the VIA ISO for Hardened Repositories that were installed with the Veeam Hardened Repository ISO v2.Important: If the repository is still running an older version, a direct jump to the VIA is not possible. You should check this beforehand and plan the time for it. An upgrade from the preview version is not possible.After the upgrade to VIA V13, the repository can only be connected to V

Hi, I am using B&R on a home network with a bunch of Windows machines.  These machines get their IP via DHCP from pfSense. This worked well for a long time as pfSense will hand out the same IP’s based on MAC address. However, I recently upgraded my pfSense machine and those mapping are lost and now B&R cannot connect to the Windows clients.  All clients have Agent installed and so I’m wondering why the connect is lost...shouldn’t the Agent be able to let B&R server know what is the new IP address?What is best practice in terms of setup so this doesnt happen again? I would prefer to not use static IP’s for each machine. Googling, some posts suggest setting up a local DNS server on pfSense.  Has anyone tried this with good success?Thank you!

​A few days ago, I faced a very interesting situation involving VBR, Veeam Agent for IBM AIX, and an IBM FlashSystem storage array.At first, it made absolutely no sense to me.I was investigating some backup-related issues when I noticed several volumes with the VeeamAux prefix on an IBM FlashSystem 7600. After checking more closely, I found over 500 temporary volumes associated with Veeam operations.And the interesting part? Many of these volumes belonged to IBM AIX servers.My first question was simple: why would Veeam Agent for AIX need to create storage snapshots or clones to perform a file-level backup?After spending some time investigating the storage configuration, Veeam logs, and official documentation, I started to understand what was happening.Let me share what I found.Understanding the EnvironmentThis environment uses VBR 12.3.2 and an IBM FlashSystem 7600, with storage integration configured for VMware vSphere.The same storage array also provides volumes to several IBM AIX se

OpenShift 5 is here On November 9, 2026, at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA, Red Hat announced the general availability of OpenShift 5. It is a major release and, most importantly for anyone already running OpenShift 4, it arrives as an in-place update: no cluster migration and no reinstall.The update from OpenShift 4 to 5 is in-place: the same cluster, with the same workloads.  The platform in three ideasIntelligent: OpenShift Lightspeed evolves from an assistant into an agent. It helps diagnose problems, assesses the risk of each update, and always leaves approval in the hands of a person. The MCP server also arrives, so AI tools can query the cluster with RBAC and read-only access by default. Secure: post-quantum cryptography (ML-KEM) in the control plane, centralized TLS configuration, and encryption of data in use for AI workloads. Predictable: major releases every three years and one extended life cycle release per year, with up to five years of support. It is built on Kubernetes 1.3

Morning all, I’m guessing your inboxes are a little quieter today, judging by the headlines! A quick reminder - you may already know this, but it’s one of the most common questions we receive about Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365:  “If Microsoft 365 goes down, can I still access my backed-up data?”Yes - you can access and download your backed-up data, provided you can sign in to Veeam Data Cloud and the service remains available. Restoring directly into Microsoft 365 depends on the affected services being available.Source: https://vdcstatus.veeam.com/ Note: You can also Subscribe to the VDC service status and tailor it to your region and service (RSS and Slack feeds become pretty powerful when you can’t get email alerts due to emails being down ay 😎): VDC Individual Email & Full Mailbox Download:Here is a snapshot showing how to download your email from the latest restore point. Likewise if you want to download the entire mailbox to avoid downloading individual emails, you can

I spent quite some time deciding which session of the Veeam 100 summit to tell you about. I could have chosen the Veeam University session, which announced that Veeam University Pro is now free for partners (truly welcome news), or the sessions on the Veeam Software Appliance, or the planned enhancements in the upcoming version 13.2. But in the end, the one that will have the greatest impact on us as resellers of the solution is the one entitled ‘Object First Acquired by Veeam: Deep Dive and Integration Roadmap’. Veeam’s acquisition of Object First, announced in January 2026, was bound to catch my attention: it’s a product we recommend and sell to our customers very regularly.  What the session covered The session looked at how Object First will integrate into the Veeam ecosystem.Veeam and Object First share a common vision: data resilience based on immutable backup storage, that is simple to deploy and secure by design. Discussions centred on the product’s direction, the continuity of

Back in 2023/24 we setup a DR site with a Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS to act as our immutable repo for backup copy jobs. I believe this may be out of date now, and the VIA is all the range. The backups on the Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS copy sit on a separate storage shelf to the OS, is it possible that if we were to migrate to VIA we can retain the backup files or is it a go no go situation?I’ve seen the migration process for Windows Repos to VIA and you can retain backup files, but we’re postponing that for now, we’d rather get all the other components in order.Just wondering if anyone’s managed to do Ubuntu > VIA and keep backups files?Cheers.

I have written a few V100 posts in the past and this time I decided to do something out of the box.V100 Summits are super special because of the people, the content and of course the locations. Veeam makes this event truly magical. We are not talking about some suburban parking lot pizza joint! This year it was in Lisbon!  I was lucky enough to go as a Veeam Vanguard.Veeam Vanguard We all wear our badges with pride and smile when we catch fellow hotel elevator travellers stealthy reading them.The Badge of HonourYou never know who in the V100 you might end up working with.At the PartyThe job of a Data Protection expert can be a steep road to follow if you don’t have the proper tools.Steep roadsIf you pick the wrong solution you could end up with a big hole in your disaster recovery plans.Boca do Inferno You also have to study your solution or else you might face a very rocky road going forward. Trail up to the Moorish Castle at Sintra Veeam is the solution that can carry you over to the

Going from I have a problem, to asking my infrastructure what I could do about this problem, to asking my infrastructure to execute on that recovery.I've been building a series of demos tying MCP servers across the infrastructure. This one puts Veeam Instant Recovery at the center: Claude Code with three MCP servers working together. The Veeam MCP for the data protection side, the vCenter MCP, and the Everpure Fusion MCP for fleet and preset management. All by using natural language.Video: https://youtu.be/llkCg3cT_o8 Full write-up with the Fusion side step by step: https://thebetasociety.com/wcith/pure-storage/everpure-fusion-veeam-instant-vm-recovery-preset-datastore-mcpThe scenarioLet's say I'm responsible for the environment, and that includes recovery or just root cause of what's going on. I get a message that this VM got corrupted, and it was about an hour ago. So what can I do about it? What are my recovery options?I didn't tell it where to look. It went to vCenter, found the VM

If you protect Microsoft Entra ID with Veeam Backup & Replication, you can now see exactly what's in every restore point with one command. I've published a free PowerShell script that builds an HTML report of your Entra ID tenant backups and log backups, grouped by tenant.  What's in the report Each tenant gets its own section with three tables.  Section What it shows Jobs Tenant backup and log backup jobs side by side, each labelled by type, with schedule, retention, repository, encryption, restore point count, last run result and status Tenant Backup Restore Points One row per restore point, with a count of each object type: users, groups, roles, administrative units, applications, Conditional Access policies, devices, role assignments, OAuth2 permission grants and a total Log Restore Point Backups One row per log backup restore point, with the number of audit and sign-in log files it added, the total, and the data size the j

Hola a tod@s En esta oportunidad les traigo un post sobre una nueva funcionabilidad agregada en Veeam Backup & Replication v13.1: Application Backup Repository (ABR).  Este, se basa en Veeam Hardened Repository y está destinado al almacenamiento de copias de seguridad de aplicaciones. En el application backup repository podemos almacenar los datos de las siguientes aplicaciones:Soluciones nativas de bases de datos incrementales: Oracle Incremental Merge, entre otras. Aplicaciones contenerizadas: Proxmox LXC, Docker y otras. Soluciones DBaaS: MongoDB Atlas, Superbase y otras. Datos de configuración de dispositivos de red: Configuraciones de cortafuegos o switches. Aplicaciones personalizadas internas. Cualquier otra aplicación con capacidades nativas de exportación que pueda escribir sus datos directamente en un target NFS share.Esta nueva función nos abre un mundo de posibilidades al poder proteger cargas de trabajo que tradicionalmente no se podían proteger con agentes o nativamen

Correct me if I’m wrong, know that v13.2 is soon released.What was the limitations with the Veeam appliance, not able to find the information but I believe I have heard that there is something with Cloud Connect, is this supported or not running the Appliance of VBR?

I’m getting the below error after upgrading Veeam servers from v12 to the latest release of v13. It’s a windows based install of Veeam, and it is connected to a (dedicated to Veeam only) AD domain.My user has local administrator permissions, Veeam Backup Administrator permissions, and MFA disabled for testing/troubleshooting purposes. The is happening across each of the Veeam v13 servers I have on the domain.It is only happening for mine and one other engineer’s user accounts, but other engineer’s accounts are not affected. We are all in the same AD groups so permissions are the same.I have tried removing Veeam Backup Administrator permissions from my account, rebooting, and re-adding, to no effect.Has anyone seen this before? Any suggestions for what else to check? In the meantime I have a case open with Veeam support, and hoping they can come up with something.Relevant logs:[19.01.2026 21:07:36.194]   <126>   Error (1)    Veeam.Backup.IdentityService.Shared.CSystemAccountProvid

  IntroduçãoEu vinha lidando com um problema intermitente nos backups VMware, difícil de explicar com base em uma única sessão com falha. Um job podia ser concluído com sucesso em uma execução e falhar na seguinte, apresentando a mesma mensagem: DiskLib error 13, seguida de uma falha ao criar um fluxo de download NFC.Durante a investigação, percebi que as falhas faziam parte de um problema operacional mais amplo. Os jobs de backup estavam se sobrepondo, algumas sessões aguardavam recursos e movimentações de DRS tornavam-se perceptíveis durante a execução dos backups. Além disso, snapshots de armazenamento permaneciam após as atividades de backup, enquanto a capacidade física do storage se aproximava do limite.O ambiente possuía 27 jobs de backup VMware, com agendamentos de execução a cada hora e mais de 300 VMs. Para contextualizar as versões, o ambiente estava executando Veeam Backup & Replication 13.0.1.1071, VMware vCenter 8.0.3 e um IBM FlashSystem FS5200.A investigação me levo

Enquanto o V100 está rolando, aproveitei para compartilhar aqui com vocês sobre as novas certificações da Veeam. 

Hola a tod@s Me gustaría poder compartirles mi experiencia en el reciente Veeam 100 Summit 2026 en Lisboa. Primero que es Veeam 100 Summit?De forma simple, Veeam 100 Summit es una cumbre exclusiva organizada anualmente por Veeam Software que reúne a los miembros más influyentes de la comunidad en el cual se incluyen los Legends, Vanguards, MVP, VUG leaders y este año se agregaron los programas Rising Stars y GSI (Integrador de Sistemas Global). Para mi comenzó hace unos meses atrás cuando recibí la invitación a participar Veeam 100 Summit de este año, estaba muy feliz por la oportunidad de participar en este evento que por varios años soñaba participar. Llegada y primeras impresionesQue decir de Lisboa, apenas baje del avión quede fascinado con esta hermosa ciudad, que logre recorrer un poco con mi colega del @VUG Ecuador. Antes de comenzar con las sesiones recogí mis regalos de parte de la comunidad, comenzaron las primeras charlas las cuales estaban divididas en colores - Rojo (Confi