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Hi everyone,I have a SureBackup issue and I’m trying to understand the IP selection behavior.SetupRepository server has two NICs:Management NIC 192.168.10.191 Has gateway Domain profile iSCSI NIC 172.16.100.11 No gateway No DNS Used only for iSCSI to Synology ProblemSureBackup fails with: Failed to connect to the endpoint [172.16.100.11:2500]Veeam is trying to connect to the iSCSI IP instead of the management IP.What I verified VBR can connect to 192.168.10.191:2500 → OK VBR cannot reach 172.16.100.11 → expected VeeamTransportSvc is running Port 2500 is listening Firewall rule for 2500 exists iSCSI NIC has no gateway Management NIC has lower metric Windows DNS API returns192.168.10.191172.16.100.11So management IP is first.  

I have a 7 node HyperV failover cluster and each host is running Windows server 2022. I have about 20 Red hat linux VMs in my cluster and added the cluster to my Veeam inventory. Most of the VMs added sucessfully with the cluster, but about 6 of them are added with all blank fields. There's no name, no node info and the host OS says unknown. When I try to add these VMs to a backup job in Veeam 12.3.2.3, they show the accurate disk capacity on the VM page, but when I run the job they all fail. I get an error about how Veeam failed to get the VHDX information.Many of the VMs had multiple HyperV checkpoints that were all deleted and merged. There was also an issue where our HyperV cluster had cluster traffic blocked on certain nodes in the past, which may have cause some Cluster synchronization/ownership permission.  Please advise on how to make Veeam able to read these VMs.  I understand this may be a more of a Microsoft issue, but any assistance is appreciated.  

Happy Friday, dear community!  I hope you all had a great week, and here's a veeamazing selection of reading materials for you! As you are probably aware, over the last three weeks, we have announced the new classes of 2026 for all three community programms at Veeam. This February Vanguard Newsletter reflects the announcement of the new Veeam Vanguard Class, and also features content from our new Vanguard members. 🤓 I am excited to see how many insightful articles reflecting product updates have been shared over the last month, and I am already looking forward to the next one, which will follow soon! We will soon have the updated Veeam100 Directory up and running, where you will be able to view the profiles of all members of each of our community programms, such as the Veeam Vanguards, Legends and VeeaMVPs. ​@AndreTheGiant - Malware detection methods in Veeam Backup & Replication 13 - https://vinfrastructure.it/2026/02/malware-detection-methods-in-veeam-backup-replication-13/ ​@be

From Install to Orchestration — What You'll Actually LearnOne of the things that makes the VRO Essentials course stand out is how practical it is. This isn't a high-level overview that leaves you with a slide deck and no idea what to do next. By the time you've worked through it, you'll have touched nearly every part of a real VRO deployment.The course walks you through installation, initial configuration, and the dashboard — then gets into the meat of how VRO works: Orchestrator Agents, Recovery Locations (VMware, Storage, and Azure), Virtual Labs, DataLabs, scopes, roles, credentials, YARA rules, and more. Each topic is paired with clickable labs so you can see exactly how things look in the UI and follow along step by step. There's also a genuinely useful module called "Recovery Homework" that challenges you to think through your own environment before you start building plans. What are you trying to orchestrate? Where does the workload live? What does success actually look like? Th

My recent discovery so it could help someone not to loose time. And maybe if there is a solution I’ll be most thankful.So with Proxmox version 9 you need to set Machine type to version 9.2 instead of Default as it defaults to 10 and that causes Veeam backup to fail.  That will insure that your backup will be sucesful and restore will work too. I have issue, where I am migrating servers from Hyper-v to Proxmox and usual and most painless solution was to use Veeam Backup&Restore as intermediary as we are already using it.But in this case restore to proxmox fails as when VM is created is created with default version for machine type and this defaults to 10 and this results in: Failed to prepare disks for restore. (If anybody knows how to convince the process to default to 9.2 Mychine type I’ll buy you a beer).I tested this on 12.3 and on veeam appliance 13 with the same result. I can restore VM, that was originally backed from Proxmox as it will bring it’s machine type version along.

Hey guys,I’m installing a VM on our Synology NAS to act as a Veeam Hardened Repo. I already had it before but now doing it trough Infrastructure Appliance.When I start the installation I get’s stuck in this process: Any recommendations for it? 

In this article, I will discuss the mistakes being made with backups, which I frequently hear about from my customers.Let’s be honest—most backup environments look perfectly fine… right up until you actually need them.Jobs are green. Reports look clean. Nobody’s complaining.Then something breaks.And suddenly you’re discovering—live—whether your backups are real or just a comforting illusion.Here are the 10 most common backup mistakes I’ve seen (and probably fixed at inconvenient hours), plus how to actually solve them using Veeam. I've tested all of these in my lab environment. 1. Not Testing RestoresThe problem:A successful backup job does NOT mean you can restore.The reality:If you haven’t tested it, it doesn’t exist.The fix:Use Veeam’s SureBackup to automatically verify recoverability. It spins up your backups in an isolated environment and proves they actually work.If your first restore test is during an outage… that’s a bad day. 2. No Immutable BackupsThe problem:Ransomware doesn’

While managing and upgrading Linux agents through Veeam, you may encounter a seemingly misleading error:Host is unreachable. Failed to connect to <hostname>. Details: Cannot find a compatible console test instruction. All known instructions are not available or executed with errors. At first glance, this looks like a network connectivity issue, but in many cases it actually points to a failure during authentication or remote command execution.Problem analysisIn this scenario, the error occurred while attempting to connect to the Linux host server-vm1 for agent installation/upgrade operations.The root cause was traced back to the credentials used by Veeam for remote access (typically via SSH). When the password of the dedicated service account becomes invalid or out of sync, Veeam fails to execute its preliminary console checks, triggering the “console test instruction” error.Fix: Password expiry check:chage -l vbruserCheck whether your account is blocked or has expiredpasswd -S v

I wanted to abandon my bare-metal Windows Server/VBR12 instance because of Microsoft and finally switch to VSA.So I set up and configured a bare-metal test installation of VSA on the server.This server has a direct connection to the HPE MSL 4048 tape library via a SAS controller.Full of anticipation, I then read: "Note that Veeam Software Appliance cannot be used as a tape server." at: https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/vbr/userguide/connecting_tape_devices.html?ver=13Seriously? That's incredibly counterproductive!Now I'm supposed to set up and maintain another server because VSA doesn't have the usual integrated tape server role? I also haven't found any option in the web UI to integrate and use the currently running tape library via a tape server, as is usually the case.Seriously? Did the DevOps team drop the ball here?

 Is Your Disaster Recovery Plan Actually Ready — Or Just Ready on Paper?Let's be honest. Most IT teams have some kind of disaster recovery plan. A document somewhere, a few backup jobs running, maybe a virtual lab that hasn't been tested since it was set up. But when the moment comes — ransomware hits, a site goes down, VMs get corrupted — that's when you find out whether your plan is real or just a formality.That gap between "we have a plan" and "we can actually execute it" is exactly the problem Veeam Recovery Orchestrator (VRO) was built to close. And it's exactly why the VRO Essentials course exists.VRO isn't just another backup tool. It's a platform for building, automating, and testing full disaster recovery workflows — so that when something breaks, your team isn't scrambling through a checklist hoping nothing was missed. Recovery happens in the right order, at the right time, with the right verification baked in.The course starts from the ground up: what VRO actually is, what i

Sorry to rant, but I have nowhere else to turn, and it's beginning to impact our clients. Veeam 13 has been absolutely horrible to install on all our backup servers. The upgrades are breaking the installs on current backup servers. It is straight up failing to install and start the Veeam service on a brand new server, and Veeam support has been unable to figure it out for two weeks. I've put escalation requests in and I'm getting nowhere. has anybody seen behaviour like this? The people on the Veeam subreddit agree that Veeam 13 has been horrible to roll out.

Hello,I’m currently planning to migrate from Windows VBR to VEEAM VSA. I’m currently working with tape library, when i installed the VSA, and logged via the WEB interface, i was amazed that the console doesn’t support adding tape servers (Am i missing something ?)Installing the desktop console will fix this ? the desktop client support creating tape libraries ?If working with the client desktop console, the MFA is still supported? we can benefit from the update feature of the VSA or updating the console should be manually ? is there a way to disable the VSA Backup and replication WEB UI to keep only the console working ?Thanks in advance

Hello everyone! So currently we have deployed VBR 12 CE on a virtualized Windows machine running on Proxmox VE 8.4.11. We are backing up our OES Server running on version 24.3.3. We want to be able to backup our OES Server including the network volumes running on NSS and all the metadata for the files on these volumes. Currently we are only doing VM backups. Is this enough to backup the metadata?If not, what would be the best way to ensure the metadata is getting backed up aswell?Is it possible to perform File level restores in this configuration? Thank you, Nico

Does anyone know if the issues with adding a workgroup (non-domain) host is limited just to VSA? Or are the same requirements in the Windows version of v13?

In this article, I will explain Instant Recovery with Veeam, its functionality, and its significance. I'll run through a quick demo (screenshots) of the Instant Recovery process with VeeamIn today’s always-on digital environment, downtime isn’t just inconvenient—it’s expensive, disruptive, and sometimes catastrophic. Businesses are under constant pressure to ensure systems are available at all times, even in the face of hardware failures, cyberattacks, or human error. That’s where Instant Recovery technology from Veeam becomes a game-changer. What Is Instant Recovery?Instant Recovery is a feature that allows you to restore and run a virtual machine (VM) directly from a backup file, without waiting for full data restoration. Instead of transferring large amounts of data back to production storage—which can take hours—Veeam lets you start the VM immediately from the backup repository.Think of it as running your system “in place” while the full recovery happens in the background. How It W

Hi everyone,Lately, "AI Agents" (especially autonomous agents, agentic AI, etc.) have become super popular. Lots of companies are starting to automate their business processes with AI agents. So I got curious:On the Veeam side (Backup & Replication, Veeam ONE, Veeam Recovery Orchestrator, etc.), is there any custom-built or in-use AI Agent project / tool / integration specifically for Veeam?From what I know:Veeam officially released something called Agent Commander (announced in February 2026). This focuses on detecting risks created by AI agents, protecting against them, and even undoing AI mistakes (rollback/restore). But it's more about "managing / protecting AI agents" rather than an agent that automates Veeam backup operations itself. In the community, I came across BackupPaw (shared around March 2026). It's an AI agent built on top of n8n, using Veeam REST API to let you manage backups via natural language with AI (probably an LLM). Sounds like a real AI assistant/agent for V

 A lot of small IT teams skip 4-Eyes Authorization because it sounds like something built for bigger shops with a separate security team.That is the wrong way to look at it.If you are the only admin touching Veeam, you probably need it more, not less. The whole point of the feature is to stop one compromised account from doing irreversible damage. If someone gets your Veeam admin credential and 4-Eyes is not enabled, they can try to tear down jobs, remove repositories, delete backup data, and make recovery harder before ransomware ever starts encrypting production. Your backup server becomes part of the attack path instead of the last line of defense.What 4-Eyes changes is simple. A destructive action no longer completes just because one account asked for it. The request gets parked in a pending state and waits for a second account with the right role to approve it. If an attacker only has your primary credential, they can create the request, but they cannot finish it.That is why this

I am running Veeam V12 in a vSphere 7 environment and trying to upgrade to 12.3.2.4465. I mount the ISO, run setup and click Upgrade. The upgrade fails every time with the following message."An error has occurred: The system cannot open the device or file specified". I click ok to the message and the upgrade stops. We identified Possible OS or Windows Installer cache corruption.Potential missing or inaccessible .msi files.Potential ISO corruption or mounting issue. Would it be possible to move to a virtual appliance  instead of preparing  a new Windows Server, install the same or newer version of Veeam Backup & Replication, and restore configuration backup to this new server? Please advise.

I am trying to deploy Veeam Data Platform v13 on my windows server however i am getting the error “License is not valid for this product” when attaching the license to it before the deployment. Deployment cant proceed like the previous versions with no license.The foundation license was purchased late September before V13 was released so I suspected that was the case, I went into the license portal and generated a new license for V13 however the same error occurred. I have the windows defender the Kaspersky antivirus disabled to avoid having any error in deploying the license however I am stuck here.

I have ran a backup for the microsoft exchange, now i am testing the restore. We have deleted an email from the inbox. Now I have selected restore application item, microsoft exchange mailbox, the veeam explorer for microsoft exchange opened, I went to the mailbox, selected the email and started the restore. Step by step i added the target mailbox that i want to restore to, selected the onprem microsoft exchange server, i specified the admin user that has access to the exchange server, it didnt automatically populate, so i added the mailbox server manually and selected restore to original folder, is that correct? It is stuck at validating for a whileI am following the guide step by step : https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/vbr/userguide/restore_to_onprem.html?ver=13

Hi,I try install Veeam Backup and Replication trial, but I receive this error==An error has occurred: One or more errors occurred. (This action is only valid for products that are currently installed.)==Before I try other Veeam product veeam one.RegardsJaroslav Jasek