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I just did a basic setup of AWS backups in Veeam Backup and Rep.  As far as I can see, it’s basically just creating snapshots in AWS, which is almost useless because that isn’t a real backup.We want the AWS backups stored in our on-prem repository, just as our vSphere backups are.  How do we do get it store the backups in our on-prem repository rather than in AWS?

Few months ago I have installed Veeam 12.0 community edition in my PC. Later now few days before I received an update notification for 12.1. After downloading the ISO file and trying to open the setup.exe I got the error “Unable to access the disk: access denied” like that. So I decided to uninstall the current veeam and then go for a fresh install. At that time it didnt let me to uninstall even. So I manually deleted all the folders and registry entries entirely from the system except these keys which are in the picture right now. Whatever I do these entries are never going off.  

Edition = latest edition of Veeam Community Edition -I successfully right-mouse click the menu area and enabled Home so that Backup Jobs are visible in Community Edition.-I then successfully created a backup job using local administrator as Veeam Community Edition will only run the backup job with local administrator not any other local user with administrator permissions.-I then successfully completed a backup.-Initially, I was using Backup1 as the backup repository. I then went on to use another backup repository of Backup2. I have completed backups using Backup2 and want to remove the backup repository of Backup1. It shows Backup1 as unavailable which is correct. When I right-mouse click to remove Backup1, it says: “Backup1 is used for configuration backup. Open configuration backup settings and choose another backup repository first.”I do not see any menu option or area that defines Configuration Backup Settings. Where is it?

I have a problem with starting the service The power supply cuts more than two hours after the power goes back on, the server starts working. Then the date of taking the backup is not taken and when the connection veeam work appears "failed to connect to veeam backup & replication server" After this start veeam services & start SQL serves are done manually after this is done naturally. please help.thanks regard 

Hello,I try to do file restore using Veeam Agent for Windows, then after sometimes i got error ‘connection to veeam agent for microsoft windows is not available’. Someone know why? 

Does someone have the same experience? What’s the root cause and how can it be solved?The detailed warning message is below:1/29/2024 2:23:06 PM :: Processing OneDrive Username (https://xxxx-my.sharepoint.com/personal/xxxx) finished with warning: Failed to backup item version: /xxx/xxx/Documents/Microsoft Teams Chat Files/Deposit.pdf, version: 1.0, Download request retry timeout exceeded. :: 0:31:50

Hello. I create backup job with RMAN plugin. When I started backup it is running normal and taking backup. I also selected in configuration to delete archive logs after completing backup. Backup completed successfully but not delete archive logs from DB. Can you please help me to solve this problem ? Thanks in advance

Good day all,Need some great specs suggestions for creating a suitable VM to run my new backup software. My boss said VM only, nor Bare metal.What specs are you running in your environment? not the default Veaam sys req online, that is too general. I just need some workable ideas

Hello everybody, First, thank you for your input; I appreciate your help! I have the following question regarding space requirements for backups.Here are the parameters:B&R Version: 12.1 Performance Tier: Formatted with REFS, Cluster size 64KB Capacity Tier (Wasabi): Versioning and Object Lock enabled SOBR Configuration: Includes both the Performance and Capacity Tiers Daily Backup Job: Data size: 2 TB Compression Ratio: 50% (resulting in 1 TB Data on the SOBR) Daily Change Rate: 10% (resulting in 0.1 TB daily changed Data on the SOBR) Case 1:Backup Job Data Retention: 21 Days Immutability: 10 DaysSpace Requirement Calculation for Capacity Tier (Wasabi):Backup blocks can be deleted after:Retention Period(21 days)+Immutability Period(10 days)+Block Generation Period(10 days)=41 Space requirement: 1 TB+(40 days×0.1 TB/day)=5 TB Case 2:Backup Job Data Retention: 10 Days Immutability: 3 DaysSpace Requirement Calculation for Capacity Tier (Wasabi):Backup blocks can be deleted after:Re

I wonder when is the Linux Veeam Backup Appliance will be released ?Because yesterday we are impacted with the CrowdStrike Falcon incident which caused the Backup server and the Backup Proxy to be encrypted. Only the Immutable Repo is not impacted with this incident.

I’m just learning this software and I was wondering what were to happen if my backup server computer was destroyed or something went wrong and how I would be able to access the backup from a new computers server?I saw this article:  https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/importing_backups.html?ver=120But it mentions:The server from which you plan to import backups must be added to the backup infrastructure. Otherwise, you will not be able to access backup files.So I am wondering - how can I add that server to a new computers server if the original server is gone?  Would this mean those backups are never able to be recovered?  

Hello,I cannot add an esxi host on veeam with each operation I get the error No connection could be established because the target computer expressly refused it.NB: I can connect to my esxi host via web using the default port. Thanks

Hello,Next year i will buy dedicated BareMetal server for VBR, tape drive and Azure HCI node for hypervisor.Currently i propose install VBR on BareMetal server and use local hdd as repository and as tape server also.Also i have another thought to install linux on the BareMetal and install VBR on the VM inside Azure HCI. But with this scenario, can i use that linux server as tape server also?Which two scenario above is best and whether anyone here have another best scenario also?

Hopefully someone here can help me:I have two Windows Clusters, one in Site A and one in Site B.  Inside these windows clusters are two Windows File Server Clusters as guest clusters consisting of three nodes in Site A (FS_CLUSA) and two nodes in Site B (FS_CLUSB) .  Each fileserver cluster is using a shared vhdx file as the storage volume.Ideally I would like to replicate FS_CLUSA → FS_CLUSB however Veeam does not support replication of virtual machines with shared VHDX or CSV volumes.We settled on the idea of simply doing a volume level backup of FS_CLUSA and restoring it to FS_CLUSB to keep the two clusters up to date (give or take a few hours).  I have been able to restore the volume from FS_CLUSA to FS_CLUSB via the console no problem, because I can specify a different target to the host.However reading the veeam powershell documentation to start to automate this process, leads me to the command Start-VBRComputerVolumeRestore (which only supports restoration to the original locati

 It feels like everyone is always trying so hard to be perfect, I’m certainly not! But I’m happy to learn from and share my mistakes. I was messing about recently with Veeam Disaster Recovery Orchestrator and made some changes to my lab, and all was fine when I shut down. A few days later I fired up the lab again, but my Veeam Backup & Replication server wouldn’t start its core “Veeam Backup Service” service. I over-engineered my response expecting it to be something far more complex than it actually was, and here’s my story. Hour 1: The Service Won’t StartI fired up my Veeam Backup & Replication server, ready to write my next blog post, uh-oh, the service won’t start! I jumped into the logs and couldn’t see anything of any note, really!This was my log, if you don’t load/can’t read images, the final three lines contained the following:[db] Minimal supported database server version is 10.0.1600.22[db] Connecting to SQL Server (CurrentUser=[NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM], ServerInstance=[W

Hello everyone,I am doing VBR migration, and the configuration restoration stucked in “rescanning tape server”, actually, I am not sure how much should it takes or what should I do if it is still stucking   

Hi all, I want to keep my backups for a year.Storage disks are expensive, so I can't keep this daily, and I gonna use GFS. If I want to keep 1 recovery point per week for 1 year, should I set it to “48 weeks” (4 weeks * 12 months) in the 'Configure GFS' wizard?? Does it make sense to assign a Monthly GFS flag if I assign a 48 Weekly GFS flags?I'm still not sure of the best practice on how to use GFS ! ; ( Please, any advice would be appreciated.Thank you.​

One of our customers is currently using VBR 12.1. Customer is replication some VMs form Primary site to Secondary site. Customer is planning to run a script for installing some package during the replication job is running. When the VMs failback to secondary to primary customer wants run again script for uninstall the package.Is it possible to run this script during failback? If not possible what can we do in this case?Any idea?Thanks is advamce

hi all,a crwod strike update causes a BSOD loop of Windows systems.CrowdStrike update causing blue screen error for systems running Microsoft Windows: report (local12.com) Boot Windows into Safe Mode or the Windows Recovery Environment     Navigate to the C:\Windows\System32\drivers\CrowdStrike directory     Locate the file matching “C-00000291*.sys”, and delete it.    Boot the host normally. 

My Veeam is set to wake, backup, and sleep at around 4am. When I later wake my computer during the day a pop up comes up saying “Veeam completed backup and will sleep in:” and then a 60 second timer before it autosleeps. I assume this is the same timer that is used at 4am to autosleep my computer, but for some reason that dialog stays active after sleep and I need to cancel it. I will try to get a screenshot the next time it comes up tomorrow.

More and more customers are aware of the fact that backups are more and more important than before 😍.The number of impacts by ransomware and hacking makes customers more and more aware of the fact that backups are often their last resort.They understand that they need an airgapped or immutable backup copy.In every conversation with a customer about backups, I talk about the necessity of implementing the 3-2-1-1-0 rule.If you want to know more about that : 3-2-1-1-0 Golden Backup Rule | Veeam Community Resource HubIn that context the customers ask me what are the possible options to have a secondary airgapped or immutable backup.They also ask what are the pro’s and con’s of those solutions.As everyone knows, there is no fits-all-solution.The best solution for the customer depends on several factors : The size of the full backups on disk The size of (daily) incrementals on disk The bandwidth of the internet-connection The preference or aversion of a certain solution (cloud vs tape) The

Hi there, we run a relatively small Backup Environment with Veeam Backup & Replication 12. I have several File Backup Jobs of unstructured Data from our Server. The Jobs use a local NAS as Onsite Repository, a Remote NAS as Offsite Repository (secondary Target) and a local StoreOnce VSA as an Archive Repository. It works as it should. But i cannot get my head around how i can access the contents of this very Archive, that is created alongside the File Backup Job. Is there a way to access this Archive directly? There’s also no Backup Mapping available on that Page. What happens if i loose access to that Archive; say - Veeam Backup System dies and i have to reassign everything in a fresh install again. How can i get access to that Archive again? Many thanks in advance for your help.Steffen

Hello everyone! Help me to remember: On v12 shouldn't I be able to run an active full separately by VM?I right click on VM but nothing happens. Obs.: My repository is setup per machine backup files.

Hi folks, I need to understand a little bit about NAS backup using NDMP protocol. I have read this article https://www.veeam.com/blog/nas-data-protection-best-practices.html written by Matt Crape. In particular I want discuss about third modelThree-way model: In this model, backup data flows from NAS to the backup server, which then sends that data to the backup device. This model requires three-way communication between NAS, the backup server and the backup device. Some advantages of this model are that it allows for better control over the backup process and greater scalability. However, this option may also introduce additional load on your network.If I understood VBR Server manage backup, after connecting with NAS, and write on a primary repository.  HAve you experience in this model backup? I will try to push the customer to use classic file backup starting from here https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/hyperv/file_share_support.html?ver=120 But if our client want use NDMP I n

Hi, I am testing with Veeam to find out if it suits our needs. My first backup job though already fails under the rescan. Running the guest credentials test gives me this error in the log:‘RPC client failed to call method [GetSvcVersion]’.I like to backup a Windows 11 VirtualBox VM. The Windows firewall is switched off on that machine. VirtualBox and Veeam B&R are running on the same machine. The VM is connected via bridged networking.The RPC services are running on the VM and the Veeam installer service on the Veeam B&R machine.Thanks for any help or hints.