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Hi All, I install veeam 13 appliance, and connect to it with Veeam Backup & Replication Console installled on windows, I can find backup job log on veeam 13 appliance (var/log/), but if my backup job created from windows console, I can’t find log , I check %ProgramData%\Veeam\Backup , but not find backup job log by job name, Backup jobs aren't synchronized between the web interface and the console, right?So where can I find the log files for backup jobs generated by the console?Thanks.

Last week I attended RSAC and as stated in a previous post had a great time.However, nothing in life is perfect and I had one conversation that got me worried. The person in question is much more “in the know” than I am when it comes to the IT industry. He claimed that blogging is basically dead now. It has been washed away by a tidal wave of AI generated content and has permanently removed the need for real bloggers. “No one believes that anyone actually writes anything anymore”. Along with that IT communities are under threat, if you don’t need bloggers and content creators then why have these groups of people? The can be easily and cheaply replaced by AI Agents. I wanted to ask everyone here what they thought and if there is anything we can do to save our brands?For my part I have decided to always try and post a video along with any written content that I create. The BVLOG!! If you can pronounce that you should win an award right off the bat! 

My belated contribution to World Backup Day."Man kütt ja zu nix" - as they say in the Rhineland ( You Never Get Around To It ). I learned the value of backups very early in my professional life.As a dual-study student during my first practical phase, I accidentally deleted the root directory of a server - specifically, the server that managed access control for all branches in western Germany.Luckily, my colleagues didn't behead their panicked young employee, but remained calm and restored the deleted data from a backup. At that time, it wasn't a Veeam backup; it must have been either a late ADSM version or an early TSM version.In any case, this experience has shaped me ever since: Firstly: It was great to have had such colleagues at that time. And secondly: Always have a backup of your data and systems! Many years later, data backup is my main professional task.Thanks to Veeam, regular system and data backups are no longer a major problem. It just works 😉But the threats have changed.

IntroIn a previous article I wrote about the type of storage a customer can use and write their backup to.Some days ago, a user in the Veeam Community asked why, according to Veeam's calculator, S3 object storage is no longer more efficient in terms of space (with immutability and GFS) than storage using XFS/ReFS technology.After answering, I decided to explore the topic further by putting myself in the shoes of a customer who has to make a choice in terms of the costs associated with the space used. That's why I want to tell you what happened with a customer.When I start a new backup infrastructure project, there always comes a time when I have to decide what type of storage repository to use. When I submit a plan to the customer, I often hear them say: Why should I spend more and use more space than requested?It usually happens when the storage budget is already tight, immutability is mandatory, and you are stuck in the middle between security, costs, and unrealistic expectations.Sit

How NTP Architecture Impacts MFA in Veeam Software Appliances — And What Happens When Clocks DriftMulti‑Factor Authentication (MFA) in Veeam’s software appliances relies heavily on accurate system time. This is because MFA one‑time passwords (TOTPs) are time‑based. If the appliance clock drifts even slightly, MFA will break — often in confusing ways.In this post, we break down:What NTP is doing inside the Veeam Software Appliance Why MFA fails when clocks drift How time desynchronization can escalate Worst‑case recovery when you’re completely locked outWhat NTP Architecture Is Doing Inside Veeam Software AppliancesVeeam Software Appliances use chrony (the NTP client on Rocky Linux) to synchronize system time with configured NTP servers. This ensures that all time‑dependent security functions — including MFA and OTP generation — remain accurate.Veeam imports NTP configuration through:Veeam Host Management Console (UI) where admins can set NTP servers   Veeam Live OS ISO environment, whi

Hey! My company currently has a Veeam Premium license which includes all of the core Veeam products. I really want to certify to showcase my skills and improve them too, but they are refusing the pay 2.5k for the course material + exam.I can see there is a Veeam University Pro for customers and partners but to be perfectly honest it seems all cluttered the some of the links are dead and return to dead ends.What options do I have and is there a cheaper way to certify?Cheers,LGH.

Yet another opportunity to highlight the importance of backing up data – whether business or personal – is that the backup system must be an integral part of the IT infrastructure, not just an afterthought.I have written this post in Italian to raise awareness among Italian companies once again.https://blog.luvisi.it/world-backup-day-5d09dc597519 ​@Madi.Cristil ​@safiya 

While responding to a post, I figured I’d try to see if i could get all of the email accounts tied to jobs in my Veeam environment to assist.This script will also show the attached Copy and Tape jobs, so I’ll try to update it with additional logic time permitting. Either way, It will show if you (or others) have email alerts setup in Veeam jobs.  I plan to update if i can have it show Warning, Error, and Success enabled. $emailPattern = '[a-zA-Z0-9._%+-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9.-]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,}'function Get-EmailsFromObject { param( [Parameter(Mandatory)] $obj, [string]$JobType = "Unknown" ) $json = $obj | ConvertTo-Json -Depth 5 -Compress -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue if ($json) { $matches = ($json | Select-String -Pattern $emailPattern -AllMatches).Matches foreach ($m in $matches) { [PSCustomObject]@{ JobName = $obj.Name JobType = $JobType Email = $m.Value } } }}$allEmai

This article is geared towards the "backup admin" and how no one really wants that job, but someone has to do it. In my current role, in addition to my other responsibilities, I serve as the backup admin in our lab environment. Although it's not as stressful as past backup admin positions, I still need to standardize and have things in order in the event of a restore or server outage.Let’s be honest—nobody gets into backup and recovery because they’re chasing excitement.But somehow, backup environments still manage to create plenty of it:Failed jobs at 2AM Storage filling up unexpectedly Restore requests turning into investigations That one job that’s been “warning” for… way too long That’s not the kind of excitement you want. In Day 2 operations, the goal shifts. You’re no longer just getting backups running—you’re trying to make the entire system predictable, repeatable, and honestly… boring.Because in data protection:Boring means reliable.    Reliable means recoverable.    Recoverab

31.3 is “Backup Day” Why?Because next day is first of April? 😊 So, tidying up could resolve into unwanted deletion of your data, which could lead into surprise, after you find out that and this is not just as a joke😊It’s nightmare …In nowadays we are trying to keep our platforms, environments most resilient as possible from ransomware attacks.BUTWhat is worse than ransomware attack?Are you really prepared to cover all scenarios?Sometimes it could be even bug of your nightmare in vendors software/firmware, which is not the thing that you never think about.ANDCombination with ransomware attack? Admins have no clue what is correct.What happened?Customer found out that has infected VMs – all Windows and Linux/Unix Systems. Production was stopped. It did not take longer, and he discovered that ALL VMs are affected. NOW was time to find out, when it happened.They figured out that best date and time to restore them is 7 days back. It was disaster for customer to lose last seven days.Backup

Hi community,I’m running into an issue with Custom Roles in Veeam Backup & Replication v13, and I’m hoping someone can point me in the right direction.I’m trying to create a restricted Backup Admin who should only see and manage specific backup jobs and specific repositories. However, I’m experiencing the following behavior:If I configure the custom role with limited permissions (selected jobs and/or selected repositories), → the user does not see any jobs at all. If I grant broader permissions (effectively “Full Access”), → the jobs appear, but then the user sees all jobs, not just the intended subset.I’ve tried several configurations, but the result is always the same:Either zero jobs are visible, or all jobs become visible when access is unrestricted.My goal is to allow a delegated admin to operate only a defined set of backup jobs and use only the repositories assigned to them — nothing else.Has anyone successfully configured granular visibility in v13?Any examples of working c

Is there a way to get better reporting for usage on hardened repositories? I recently had a Wasabi issue after upgrading to 12 and our console was showing 29.7tb’s of usage which is right under our 30tb bucket. Actual bucket size was 128tb which lead to additional billing.

  As long as backups are running, logs are about as popular as a dashcam: you see them, you know they’re there—and you hope you’ll never really need them. But the moment a job fails, a service stops unexpectedly, or the software “just starts acting weird,” logs become the only reliable witness. They show what happened, when it happened, how other components reacted — and often why something was triggered in the first place. In troubleshooting, a complete and properly retained log history often determines whether you can narrow down an outage or error within minutes— or whether you end up relying on assumptions, screenshots, and “it didn’t feel like it was like this before” statements. That’s why in this article we’ll look at: how to collect Veeam logs correctly (support-ready), which levers you have for retention and storage consumption (Windows registry keys, GUI settings, VEM, Best Practices), and how simple housekeeping can prevent a full log partition from slowing down operations .

Recently, ​@Madi.Cristil created a post asking members of the Veeam Community who have been "heroes" in performing their backup duties to share their stories. If you haven't yet seen her post, you can read it below:https://community.veeam.com/discussion-boards-66/backup-heroes-wanted-join-the-world-backup-day-contest-2026-12918?postid=90737#post90737World Backup Day is coming and, like they've done the past few years, Veeam is asking for the Community to share posts about how Veeam Data Platform has been used to meet a need at your organization, or even home!  My story isn't too extravagant, but it did meet a crucial need at my organization.We had an employee get terminated a while back for potentially suspect activity with a vendor. Upon being informed of this activity, senior administrators were tasked to look into any network accounts which could have access to our environment. After meticulously skimming through our Active Directory environment, we came across a couple accounts whi

If we use forward forever incremental backup on the tape, can we disable the full backup schedule? 

we are trying to configure the agent backup of the backup server VEEAM but getting below errorFailed Unable to install backup agent: failed to connect to VEEAM Error: The user name or password is incorrect. Failed to connect to share '\\10.1.0.2.1\ADMIN$'.  Is this configuration   not recommended ?

Hello, I currently have an R740 with a NetApp E Series directly attached and am looking to use it as a hardened repo (rocky os). I am concerned that the 740 is near end of life, so wondering how difficult and what would the steps be if I was to replace the server with a new one in a year or two down the line? 

  Three management modes at a glance.  Mode Managed In Best Fit Reality Check Standalone Local server Isolated hosts or segments without VBR reachability Easy to forget until restore day VBR-managed VBR console Most internal infrastructure teams Best default when central visibility matters VSPC-managed VSPC via tenant VBR Service provider and multi-tenant designs Adds tenant visibility and service-provider controls  Linux boxes still end up doing a lot of the jobs nobody wants to virtualize.File servers. Monitoring nodes. Database hosts. NTP servers. Application servers that got built once and never moved again. They are everywhere in Veeam environments, but the Linux Agent still gets less attention than the Windows one. That matters, because some of the things that are easy to gloss over on Windows become real design choices on Linux.This is the part that actually

Last week I attended my first RSAC in San Francisco. To say it was a great experience would be the understatement of the year.The conference is enormous, and you can tell just by walking around downtown as the streets were filled with people sporting their RSAC badges. I quietly slipped mine off whenever I ventured outside the convention center. Wearing it felt like broadcasting to the city: "I'm from out of town — please rob, scam, or at least aggressively inconvenience me." Better to blend in with the local hipster cyclists. More on that later.AI Everywhere (And I Mean Everywhere)AI dominated the conference floor. Nearly every booth referenced it, the street advertisements were themed around it, and by day two I half-expected to find an AI-powered fixture in the restroom. (In some parts of North America they call it a "restroom" — in Toronto we say "washroom." My theory is that in some locations companies work their employees so hard that the restroom is the only place they can hide

I recently wrote a blog about VSA HA Clustering, which you can find below (link to my site is below as well).Veeam VSA HA Cluster Setup With the release of Veeam Backup & Replication 13 there is a new feature that you can use to set up two nodes in an HA Cluster configuration for high availability.  I am going to outline the process below and keep in mind that you will need to have a VDP Premium license in order to do this as that is a hard requirement.  Now let’s look at HA Clustering with Veeam VSA.Configuring a Veeam VSA HA ClusterThe HA cluster configuration process involves two major phases: enabling the HA feature on both nodes via the Host Management Console, and then assembling the cluster through the Veeam Backup & Replication Console.Enable High Availability on Both Nodes via MGMT UIBefore the cluster can be assembled, the HA capability must be enabled on each Veeam Software Appliance independently through the Host Management Console (Web interface on port 10443).Acce

 Microsoft’s position on your Microsoft 365 data has not really changed: they keep the service running, but they do not give you backup in the way most admins mean it.Yes, deleted data may hang around for a while. Exchange has retention behavior. SharePoint and OneDrive have versioning. Teams data can still exist in awkward places even after it disappears from the user view. None of that gives you a real backup timeline, a clean point-in-time restore, or a recovery workflow you would want to bet an outage on.That is the gap Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 fills, and v8 is not just another incremental release. The architecture changed enough that you need to think about deployment differently than you did in v7. Start with the big change: v8 is built around PostgreSQL If you are coming from v7, the first thing to understand is that SQLite is gone from the design that mattered before.Older builds used SQLite for the configuration database and for per-proxy cache data. In v8, that moves in

HiI am planning to deploy Veeam Backup & Replication v13 using the Veeam Infrastructure Appliance with a Hardened Repository configuration.My question is about capacity expansion during production operation.If the backup storage becomes insufficient after the appliance has been deployed and is already in use,is it a supported operation to add an additional virtual disk to the appliance VM and expand the backup storage capacity (for example, extending the repository storage)?Specifically, I would like to understand:Whether adding a new virtual disk to the Veeam Infrastructure Appliance VM is officially supportedWhether this applies to a Hardened Repository configurationIf there are any restrictions, best practices, or unsupported scenarios we should be aware ofThe goal is to increase backup capacity without redeploying the appliance.If there is any official documentation or guidance from Veeam regarding this scenario, I would appreciate it.Thank you in advance for your help.

Hi all, Sorry if this has been covered, I couldn’t find it in the search. I have a HyperV host and I want to use VAW to backup the D drive containing the HyperV VM files.  I have 2 USB disks I plan to rotate.  I’ve read the guides and I have registered both the USB disks as storage devices.  Last night it failed and I am suspecting it was due to the drive letter not being assigned when it got reconnected.  In theory, am I OK to simply leave one disk plugged in and VAW will do the backup to that disk, if there is a drive letter assigned?   Thanks.  

Hi, I tried using Veeam Agent for Windows on my 2025 Server to backup a D drive.  The backup destination was a couple of USB disks which I registered with VAW and I wanted to use the disks on rotation.  That backup job failed with some problem about VAW insisting on using the same USB disk each time, plus my colleague convinced me to use the community version of Veeam Backup & Replication, so I started again. I’ve installed VBR, created a repository using one of the USB disks and did my first backup.  All ok.  Then I re-ran the job 5 mins later with the same USB disk still plugged in, so no disk change/no rotation, as I wanted to see if it created the VIB file.  Nope!  I got this: Processing New Backup_Job_1 Error: Update of the storage [E:\Backups\SRV02\New SRV02.c5c62b19-d1f0-4e8e-864d-3da8e38f3D2026-03-30T222815_7C96.vib] is not supported. Storage version: [0]. Failed to open storage for read/write access. Storage: [E:\Backups\SRV02\New SRV02.c5c62b19-d1f0-4e8e-864d-3da8e38f3D20

Every time I try to open a case in my Veeam portal, I get a permission error that I can’t:Which is odd as I am the admin for our license, and I can’t raise a ticket to say I can’t raise a ticket as it always goes back to this error. Can’t use phone support as you need a case number from raising a case. Could someone from Veeam help sort this out? RegadsDamien