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We’ve been testing our Orchestration Plan and after failover to our DR site, the certs on our vCenters were replaced and broke the connections between our DRO and vCenters. Had to refresh the connection so the DRO can take in the new certs. However, when we tried to failback to our primary site, we had the login error to vCenter. The issue was fix when we had to go into the built-in VBR and refresh the connection in VBR itself.  I would tend to think that DRO itself would be able to restore the connections within its built-in VBR and VeeamOne. Let me know what you think or if I’m missing something here. 

At VEEAMON 2023 in Miami I had the opportunity to talk about a certain topic during a Tech Talk. At first I would like to thank @HunterLAFR and @JonahMay for joining my session and making it a interactive and informal talk!For those that have missed it, I will give you in this post a recap about the content of this session. As already said, the idea was to have an informal and interactive talk about a certain topic.The topic I have chosen was : Powering Off-Site backup a at Service Provider.The session had several elements :  IntroductionAt first we introduced ourselves.Who are we, from which country, working at a partner/service provider or at a customer. 3-2-1-1-0 golden backup ruleI explained the importance of implementing the 3-2-1-1-0 golden backup rule.It is very important to protect us against ransomware, disasters and other attacks.The topic of the day was the offsite backup copy. Different approaches for off-site backupThere are different possibilities to implement a off-site

Greetings everyone!I am very new to Veeam, did a few installs & backup/restore already with the software but still I’m way too far from understanding the full structure of the tool.Is Veeam a viable solution to backup vCenter Server Appliance? Currently the organization I joined recently has a nightly backup of the appliance. (doing a research about how Veeam can be a viable solution in long term, so I would greatly appreciate if someone can share their expertise on the matter, thank you!)

One of the many features that Veeam Backup and Replication provide to ensure an organization can successfully recover their backups every day and in case of a malware emergency is the ability to scan your backup images for latent malware before they are restored.  This goes beyond the ability to scan for possible entropic encryption of a server during backup by scanning for the malware that has caused the encryption. If an infection is detected then the restore can be aborted, or the server can be restored but not get connected to a network.Secure Restore is the name of the Veeam Backup and Replication feature that does the malware scan before restoring. Secure restore can restore Windows servers fromVMs from any hypervisor  Physical servers that are protected with Veeam Agent for Windows. From backups stored on immutable block storage. From backups stored on immutable object storage. From backups stored on NFS/SMB shares Secure restore can be run before recovery is performed from the

The time has come! This is the official Veeam Community Hub Discussion board for VeeamON 2023! There is still time to attend virtually! Register here: https://www.veeam.com/veeamon DISCUSSWhat session(s) are you looking forward to?What is your favorite announcement from VeeamON 2023?What stole the show for you?Anything else you would like to add? VIRTUAL EXPERIENCE:  What worked, what didn’t?IN-PERSON EXPERIENCE:  What worked, what didn’t?

I have what I hope is a simple question. What’s the best practice for the a high availabilty SQL server for the VSPC or Veeam ONE configuration database. I see in https://www.veeam.com/kb2301 how to deploy SQL AOAG for VBR and VEM. I’m not sure if this applies to VSPC or Veeam ONE.

Hi all,I want to share with you a problem I encountered on a customer while upgrading Veeam Enterprise Manager from v11a to v12 latest release. The environment This is a simple Veeam v11a installation, VBR + EM.The customer uses Windows Defender for Endpoint (Antivirus/EDR) on the server, the exclusions are correctly set as per KB https://www.veeam.com/kb1999. The upgrade..Ouch! After successfully updating a dozen Veeam environments to v12, I start this new upgrade with the confidence "It works!".Once I get to the end of the wizard and start the update, at some point you receive the error "Failed to create website 0x80070020".This error is reported in the KB https://www.veeam.com/kb1992, where it is actually recommended to disable the antivirus. Support case and solution I was followed by a good Veeam support engineer, but there was nothing to do..unfortunately it was not enough to disable the AV (we tried everything, registry, powershell, voodoo rituals), but it was necessary to compl

Hello guys! It’s the first time I got this error message in one of my backup jobs. I got it in random virtual machines, after a retry the backup is ok.I check the logs:On the VBR I have this:“Error        Failed to construct ClientAgentProtocol. (Veeam.Backup.Common.CRegeneratedTraceException)[27.03.2023 10:06:42.851] <46> Error           at Veeam.Backup.Common.CExceptionUtil.RegenTraceExc(Exception originalExc, String formatString, Object[] args)[27.03.2023 10:06:42.851] <46> Error           at Veeam.Backup.AgentProvider.CClientAgentProtocol..ctor(CBaseAgentService svc, Boolean redirectOutput, Version version, IAgentProtocolLogger logger, IOutputAnalyzer outputAnalyzer)[27.03.2023 10:06:42.851] <46> Error           at Veeam.Backup.AgentProvider.CClientAgentProtocol..ctor(CAutoRef`1 svcRef, Boolean redirectOutput, Version version, IAgentProtocolLogger logger)[27.03.2023 10:06:42.851] <46> Error           at Veeam.Backup.AgentProvider.CProxyAgent.StartClientInter

Hello Everyone,SOBR has 10 NFS shares repos with Linux gateway, each time resync the repos from SOBR, all Repos become unavailable and I have to open each one’s properties and click finish to become available again.Any thoughts?

I'm seeing this error "Failed to process VM: Failed to create MachineMutex" when doing storage snapshot. The first try fails but the 2nd try succeeds and usually the issue comes and goes. Failed to create snapshots on primary storage: Failed to wait mutex sandiscover7c39d713-bdbb-40f1-ac8d-af87774de299_b72e5bb7-87e2-4802-9043-2d6a76f9052d: timeout 600 sec exceededFailed to create storage snapshot for datastore abcdef: Failed to wait mutex sandiscover7c39d713-bdbb-40f1-ac8d-af87774de299_b72e5bb7-87e2-4802-9043-2d6a76f9052d: timeout 600 sec exceeded Who has seen this issue and cause/resolve info? 

I am not able to install Veeam Backup & Restore on standalone W11 machine.Keep getting:Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.andFatal error during installation. I was successful installing on internet connected W10 machine, but have not been in standalone W11 machine. Any insight will be greatly appreciated.

Hello Guys, is it possible? Storage Spaces Direct for Veeam Server (only one Server NON cluster)Disk whit trww way mirroring?How many disk failure a can have? Thaks a lot

Thank you for checking out my ‘What I Wish You Knew About SureBackup’ session! If you have any questions, please feel free to reply below or create a new topic within the Veeam Community Hub, I’d love to talk to you about how you’re using, or planning on using SureBackup within your organisation or for your customers. As mentioned on the session, if you want to see my ‘Deep Dive’ into SureBackup from a recent Veeam User Group talk, you can find the YouTube video embedded below. 

Hello Everyone,Someone asked this question in Nutanix Forum:“We are running asynchronous Protection Domains and also employee Veeam backups of VMs. If we failover to the secondary site and then failback to the primary site, Veeam no longer recognizes the VMs in previously created backup jobs. We have to delete all the old backup jobs and set them up again. This is with ESXi hosts. Is that normal?”Didi anyone face this issue before and how to fix it?

What? Mount the contents of the latest restore point of a Linux VM to the very same or another VM using the data integration API. Why? Linux admins can just browse the backup contents on the local system and restore the files they need (on the CLI 😉) Advanced & complex restore scenarios Cross-restore to another server (source server and target server can be different) $machine = "esxrhel1"$machine_dns = "esxrhel1.lab.local"$machine_credentials = Get-VBRCredentials -Name "veeam" | ? { $_.Description.Contains("Veeam Linux Account") }$rp = Get-VBRRestorePoint -Name $machine | Sort-Object -Property CreationTime | select -Last 1$publishSession = Publish-VBRBackupContent -RestorePoint $rp -TargetServerName $machine_dns -TargetServerCredentials $machine_credentials -EnableFUSEProtocol -Reason "Test FUSE restore"# Print info on session$publishSession#Unpublish-VBRBackupContent -Session $publishSessionAs a result on the Linux system you’ll get loop mounts like these./dev/loop0 on /tmp/Veea

Hi, since this is not really a Veeam question I will not post it on the forums, so I’ll post it here ;-). We are using backup from storage snapshot on our NetApp running Ontap 9.12.1 and Veeam 11. Every time Veeam is taking a backup, lots of errors show up in the Netapp eventlog. Errors like this:tsse.scan.start.failed: 'Cold Data Scan' failed to start on 'VeeamAUX_iscsi_netapp_02_Rescan_68vTfMjeYHNw4M9BNF0NKb' - Scan was stopped.and other numerous errors regarding SIS. It appears that Ontap is starting a SIS operation to duplicate the volume that is mounted from the snapshot by Veeam. However, Ontap can never complete this scan since Veeam dismounts this volume once the backup has finished. This is filling up the eventlog of the Netapp quite substantially and we risk missing critical events due to this clutter.Does anyone know of a way to have Ontap not start a SIS scan when Veeam mounts a snapshot as a temporary volume? p.s. sorry for the typo in the subject. Unfortunately, the discu

We can well backup Oracle databases sitting on ASM clusters using the RMAN plugin:Veeam Plug-in for Oracle RMAN - Veeam Plug-ins for Enterprise Applications But there is more to ASM clusters. You might also have ACFS as an Oracle-homed cluster FS. It is not used for the database files themselves as these are located in the ASM itself. ACFS is rather meant to host supporting files around the databases throughout the cluster (general purpose files, shared database homes, administrative files, log files, trace and audit files, scripts, etc.).It appears to be necessary to backup those files in conjunction with an ASM/RAC clusters next to the pure DB using RMAN and the Veeam plugin as well. Dead-end #1:Most Oracle systems run on physical systems for the “unconventional” license requirements Oracle tries to apply. Therefore first idea to grab those files would be the Veeam Agent.Unfortunately, Veeam Agent does not support ASM clusters. At least not from an Oracle perspective: Oracle Backup -

When troubleshooting vSAN issues, we need to complete understanding of the vSAN environment. Today I will introduce a good tool "vSAN Objects Viewer" that quickly converts vSAN information from text to graphics, including the followings:vSAN cluster topology vSAN nodes information vSAN disk group information VM and object composition Component distribution and statusRequirementsVMware vSAN OSA 6.x/7.x/8.x DockerDeploying the ToolPull the Docker image by running the following command:docker pull projects.registry.vmware.com/fling_vsan_objects_viewer/fling_vcmd:v1.5.7Deploy the container by running the following command:docker run -d -p 30000:80 projects.registry.vmware.com/fling_vsan_objects_viewer/fling_vcmd:v1.5.7Run the following command on any ESXi hosts within the vSAN cluster and download the output file to your local host or a remote web server:cmmds-tool find -f json > /tmp/output.txtUploading the output fileAccess the tool by a web browser and entering the correct IP address

It has happened again… the very reason we encourage multiple media types in the 3-2-1-1-0 rule.SanDisk Extreme & Extreme Pro devices have firmware issues causing data loss and devices becoming completely unreadable.I don’t want to rewrite the article verbatim but one user reported a lot of read/write errors as the drive approached halfway consumed, and then upon disconnecting & reconnecting the drive appeared as unformatted.SanDisk have stated a firmware fix will be available soon, but if you’re using these for backups or data offloads, be sure it’s not your only data copy…Original Source: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/sandisk-extreme-portable-ssd-suffer-sudden-failures-wd-responds

Hello community,,a new cumulative patch for Veeam v12 has been released this weekend:https://www.veeam.com/kb4420Many resolved issues..don’t forget to install it! 💚

Hello Everyone,I have a challenge in decreasing the backup window for 60TB Oracle DB which takes 16 hours with transfer rate 1GB/s against Networker which takes only 10 hours.Current configuration VBR v12, Oracle RMAN plugin with 10 channels, Veeam basic compression, SOBR Repo performance mode with 10 NFS shares on Pure storage, gateway server auto.Network speed 40GB with jumpo frame enabled. 

I wanted to share this just incase it helps someone else. I was getting the following errors in Veeam B&R Community Edition 12.0.0.1420 when trying to add/rescan one of my eight Hyper-V hosts. These started occuring when moving towards a full block on NTLM in our environment.Disks and volumes discovery failed Error: A security package specific error occurred. RPC function call failed. Function name: [GetSvcVersion]. Target machine: Network path not found or invalid credentials supplied.I verified DNS was good, disabled firewalls, enabled NetBIOS over TCP/IP, among other things. None of these helped.What ended up fixing this, was enabling the “This account supports Kerberos 128/256 bit encryption” on our Active Directory user that services Veeam. I’m not sure why they other hosts were fine, but this fixed the final one and should have been done anyways.

Hello,With Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows FREE edition, I wonder if there’s a way to test the encryption key? I tried removing job but when restoring it still didn’t ask for password.And, can I re-add job after removing it or add the current jobs to another PC?Thanks

As you may know, with vSphere 7 Update 1 VMware introduced the vSphere Clustering Service.The plan is to get more independent of vCenter Server for certain cluster features like for example DRS.Where you certainly notice the difference, compared to older releases, are the vCLS agent VMs shown in vCenter.https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2020/09/vsphere-7-update-1-vsphere-clustering-service-vcls.htmlThere's no need to backup them and if you have a current Veeam version (v10a Patch 20201202 or higher), they're are automatically excluded from your jobs.The agent VMs are manged by vCenter and normally you should not need to look after them.Normally…yesterday we've had the case were some of the vCLS VMs were shown as disconnected; like in this screenshot:Checking the datastore we have noticed that those agents VM had been deployed to the Veeam vPower NFS datastore.As this datastore is managed by the Veeam server and can connect/disconnect at any time, it's a very bad location for the vCLS VM