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When researching backup strategies, I think I understand that Veeam creates “snapshots” which are backups, which need to be restored, which can take time… I.e. if my OS drive fails, I need to boot into a Preboot Environment (PE) or Recovery Environment (RE), then start the restore process, which might take hours. But in theory, with a separate hard drive with a cloned version of the OS, I could swap the drive, and boot up into a working OS installation in approximately 5 minutes. But I can’t find any explanation if Veeam offers the ability to create an image or clone of a full drive and or partition, and I am asking if there is a reason for this omission?I have read on other websites that the built-in Windows 7 create system image “feature” is not to be trusted, it is old and no longer supported.Therefore it seems like an Imaging / Cloning feature would be important to make Veeam a complete protection solution.Otherwise I need to buy

Hello guys,One of my client can’t used the migrate to production feature. Is there some prerequisites? I miss maybe something :DThanks.

I tried to add my certificate according to this page: https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/hyperv/import_tls_pfx.html?ver=120Now VeeamBackupSvc service is not starting showing 1064 error and obviously I can’t use Console to create new self-signed certificate as a workaround. It’s B&R version 10a so I cannot Repair installation - there’s no such option in the installer.How can I fix this?

Error: Incorrect function. Asynchronous read operation failed Failed to upload disk. Agent failed to process method {DataTransfer.SyncDisk}. Exception from server: Incorrect function. Unable to retrieve next block transmission command. Number of already processed blocks: [6170]. Failed to download disk '2bc23b75-36bc-4dc6-a7a6-0a0896103c88

Hi All,I am wondering if there is a way to schedule a Full Backup (Acrive or Synthaatic) to be every 10 days ? instead of weekly or monthly bases. My goal is to have daily incrementals and full backup every 10 days so I played with all schedule options but couldn't achieve it so I feel I am missing something or this is not possible on veeam as I used to do it in other vendors.Let me know if this configuration is possible in VBR.Thanks 

Hello, I am getting this error message:Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows is unable to open backup files created by Veeam Backup & Replication.I want to restore a physical machine. Backup and USB boot stick were created under Veeam Communtty edition 10.

Hello, Thanks,I need to restore a backup, but need that date/time to match the date/time that the backup was taken.For example, I have a .vmb, .vbk, and recovery agent isoNeed to restore full backup from 10/07/2023 into a hyperv vm.But no matter what I try, after restore and reboot, the date is not set to 10/07/20231. I have setup the hyperv vm not to use “Time Synchronization”2. disable network access, so not ability to contact NTP server.3. As soon as the vm boots, but before starting the restore, i open a command prompt and manually set date to 10/07/20234. then I run the recovery, reboot into the OS and the date is wrong.Any suggestions please?  

UPDATE (Feb 2024):It was brought to my attention recently that some of the cmdlets have changed in v12.x that may have broken one or more of the above scripts. I’ve rewritten the one that was pointed out (Veeam Agent Jobs) and tested to make sure it works. I can’t vouch for the others, but will try to get around to updating them all (if needed) and posting the updates here. Just be sure if you’re on 12.x or newer that you do thorough checks to confirm it works in a safe environment before attempting to run anything in production.------------------------------------------------------Hello again, everyone! Just sharing another useful PowerShell script to enable/disable Health Checks for multiple jobs. It’s handy whenever you have a large number of jobs which all need to be adjusted and would take a significant amount of time to do so. Usually I wouldn’t share such a short script, but the way to locate and adjust this particular option in a job via PowerShell can

I’m setting up a QNAP TVS-871 which has 4 x 1Gb interfaces. I just watch this video about performance related to different types of link aggregation. My switch (setup by someone else) is set for LACP was planning on using 802.3ad… but now I’m not sure.Does VEEAM gather the files and make them appear as 1 file transfer or can it transfer multiple at a time? Will link aggregation protocol make a difference for VEEAM?Can someone help me understand because I’m sort of new and working on a live office network of 30 people so I can’t play around too much. 

Good afternoonI am having the following error when running a tape backup job  [CTapeRepositoryStorageRelation] Cannot find record in table TapeStorages for tape storage  Thank you very much in advancegreetingsMarcelo

Can non-domain joined VBR v12 servers use a gMSA?All of our Veeam servers are off our domain, but can communicate with AD, and I'm exploring if I can use gMSA instead of a service account.I've read the KB on gMSA for Veeam, but it's written in a way that tends me to believe its for domain joined VBRs servers. A few articles online show that non-domain joined containers can run gMSA, but doesn't read as if non-domain joined servers can do that or not.https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/using_gmsa.html?ver=120

Hello everybody and wish you a happy and successful new year.  I’m starting with configuration of SureBackup for our environment.I’m still pretty new to everything so it would be great if someone can assist.We have a standalone Hyper-V Host that we are using for our Virtual Lab.Few of you are already familiar with our setup but I will write it again:Backup Jobs going on primary location (Synology NAS iSCSI connection formatted as ReFS to Windows Server) Backup Copy Jobs on secondary location ( Synology NAS iSCSI connection formatted as ReFS to Windows Server) Immutable Backups on secondary location ( Running Directly on Synology NAS as a VHR - isolated ) Now I want to add SureBackup to our Backup Strategy to complete the 3-2-1-1-0 rule. Currently I created an Virtual Lab with Hyper-V Host but didn’t configure anything than default settings that Veeam Already configured by itself.

I have found a ton of articles on how to fail over corporate servers and resources to a DR site.  The process seems very straight forward and as long as your internal users can work and are able to access local resources / servers all is well.However we have the need to fail over several servers that provide external hosting of services like www hosting,  VoIP PBX servers,  mail servers etc.All of these servers at our production site have complex firewall policies and WAN static routes configured and ultimately top level registrar DNS pointing traffic to our various static WAN IPS and in turn routing to local server targets based on ports and traffic type. We have setup a VPN site to site with no issue and are easily able to replace VMS to the Dr site.The Datacenter site is 192.168.15.x and the DR site is 192.168.30.xWe can easily fail over a replaca and re ip them to 192.168.30.x IPS and have tested this.   The problem is the VM is useless

I’m using VEEAM 12.0.0.1420.I’ve created a backup on a RDX drive with the option ‘This repository is backed by rotated drives’.Then i created a bootable recovery media → USB stickStarting machine from USB stick and open wizard ‘Volume Level Restore’Backup location is fine, full backupStarting progress will show the following lines:OK Loading backup filesOK Restore process started …BAD Restore failed: The requested security package does not existBAD Saving restore logs Error: Unable to save recovery logs to target repository. To do …Please advise.THX Reinhard 

Currently I have 40 VMs, and 50 licenses.  A little context: We have a server that creates a lot of images, it has been doing so since 2015.  Last year I reconfigured the server, moving the oldest images to a NAS, and we are keeping the current years images on the server, for faster disk based backups, and disk copies.  More recent imgaes are accessed much more than older images.  The older images do not change. Somehow the file to tape and 500GB file share licenses did not really affect us untill now.  Over the last couple weeks, I have been doing my final cleanup of the images we moved, deleting the fomer vmdks that they used to live on.   Before finally deleting the vmdks, I started writing the oldest images to tape, and deleting the corresponding vmdk.   A couple days, and 8TB, in,  I get a licensing message.    Now I am here. Incrediby disapointed.  If there is no recourse, then the licensing cost, will more than double, just bec

While helping an SE with a POC, I encountered an odd obscure error when trying to install a repository on one VM and a proxy on another VM. The error message was received after we added the VMs as managed Windows servers and during the actual repository and proxy install.The error I received was:“Installing package Transport Error: Error 1920. Service Veeam Data Mover Service (VeeamTransportSvc) failed to start.  Verify that you have sufficient privileges to start system services.” I was a little panicked when I saw this as I have not encountered this error before, and the service installs work.After my initial panic, my attention immediately turned to an account permissions issue.  The account being used is a domain account that was a member of the local adminis

Hello, recently I had a problem on a production environment. I had to delete old replicas (old VMs that wasn’t on production site anymore), and after deleting 4 old VM replicas inside Veeam, two critical production VMs were also deleted from vSphere. Fortunately this mentioned VMs had backup and their replicas did the job on recovering, which also proves that there wasn’t accidental deletion on the Veeam side. From what I analyzed and read in some articles on the web, probably two of the replicas deleted were somehow linked to the production VMs. Maybe someone incorrectly managed replicas through vCenter/ESXi instead of Veeam, but is hard to know what happened exactly. But apart of finding exactly what led to this, we still have to delete old replicas and I’m not comfortable on proceeding without having a mean of ensure that no VM will be deleted from production site. So I’d like to know if anyone can help on how

Is there any significant downside to using Windows 11 pro as the OS for the BR server roles instead of windows server OS?  I ask because I’ve been evaluating how to migrate our BR infrastructure away from our domain joined servers and one path I'm looking at appears to require using a client OS.  The BR documentation appears to show all roles as supported to be running on the client OS. We have a pretty small deployment.  I would like to avoid using a workgroup for the BR infrastructure if possible, so my thoughts are either (1) use another AD domain in the AD forest.  (2) use Azure Managed Domain Services (3) Use the Free Entra ID and device management.  Option (1) seemed like a nice option at first, but looking at the actual support requirements, it seems like it will add a lot of overhead and I’m not even sure I can reasonably avoid any chicken/egg situation where I’m starting from no running infrastructure and just repository backup data.  Option (2) appears to be

A tape verification a day….😉Tape backups are an essential part of data protection strategies as they provide reliable security and offline storage capabilities. However, ensuring the reliability and consistency of tape backups can be critical for regulatory compliance and ensuring data integrity.So I wrote a Powershell script (which has been floating around in my head for a long time) that uses the available Powershell cmdlet "Start-VBRTapeVerification" to regularly check tapes available in a media pool and marks them as checked with time stamps and checks the tapes again after a certain time (default 270 days). It also helps to increase data reliability and reduces the manual effort involved in managing tape backups. The script can be downloaded

CHALLENGE launched!!! Would be great to have a more diverse Community where we can learn from different experiences??? Each Community member to bring a woman to join our WA-IT group and any other group of the Community, being for her a mentor and a tourist guide 😉 to show around the many benefits of being a member here. This will shape a more inclusive and diverse Community and create new opportunities to cooperation and dialogue. See the group here  >> https://community.veeam.com/groups/women-and-allies-in-tech-115

Hi all,We have a problem with oracle archive log filesWe are migrating backups from HP Dataprotector to Veeam Backup & Replication 12. We create a job using Veeam Plug-in for Rman. In the "Database Prossesing settings" window’s, we choose the option "DELETE archived redo logs that were backed up". The ARCHLOGS are deleted, OK, but With HP DATAPROTECTOR we used a script with these commands: archivelog until time 'sysdate-3' not backed up 1 times;delete NOPROMPT archivelog all completed before 'sysdate -7' backed up 1 times to sbt;crosscheck archivelog all;How do we do it with Veeam?Adrian

connect to powershell: connection to remote server outlook.office365.com failed with the following error message: access denied veeam office 365 

Hi, I have downloaded a trial of Veeam Office 365 backup after hearing how good it was in several places as we currently use another product but it's not the best in terms of features. Initial setup was simple enough but when it came to running the backup job, the performance was dreadfully slow. Averaging between 500-800kbps, it will take months to backup at this rate! Bandwidth is not an issue, we have a leased line and easily get 200meg down. Surely something must be wrong? I have read about auxiliary accounts but that option is greyed out for me...? I have the latest version, downloaded only last week. A bit disappointing since the rest of it seems to be pretty sweet.Any help is appreciated, thank you.

When Veeam Backup Server is backing up with SQL Server, SQL Server will send packet port 445 from Veeam Backup Server. What is the problem and how to solve it? 

How to tell which backup proxy is being used by agent based backup job? NAS file share backups show the proxy server being used but not seeing the same for an agent based backup job.