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For those who joined my online and VeeamON sessions on migrating from VMware to Hyper-V or Proxmox, I promised I would share my cleanup scripts. It took longer than planned to prepare them, but they are now ready.Online session HERE unfortunately there is no video of the VeeamON session that was migrating to Proxmox.When you use Veeam to migrate a Windows virtual machine, the work is not done when the job finishes. Your migrated VM is now running on a new platform, but it still contains old drivers and devices from VMware.These leftovers can cause instability, performance issues, or future driver conflicts. This post explains how to use my PowerShell scripts to safely clean the VM after your migration, making it ready for the new platform.Get the Scripts on GitHub All the tools discussed here are available in my public GitHub repository. You can clone or download them to get started.My GitHub: My GitHub Repository Before You Begin: A Safety Checklist Before running any scripts, take th

Hello forum, We have an existing physical 12.3 VBR Enteprise server with local default repository (E:\) and local attached tape drive.Need to move to a new physical VBR Enterprise server, also with a local default repository and a new tape drive. We don’t want to connect the old tape library to the new server.Ideally the old server remains available for eventual restores from the old tapes.Backups on the local repository have only 2 weeks retention, so not really required to copy them to the new local repository.Is a simple configuration restore from the old VBR ES to the new one OK?I suppose the old catalog does not need to be copied to the new VBR ES and can be left out of the configuration restore?I’ll need to configure the new tapel ibrary and new media pools on the new ES and then point the copied Job definitions to the new media pools?Can the old VBR remain online for at least 6 months?Thanks, Francis 

Hey Folks,maybe some of you are running with Synology NAS Systems. In the last couple of months there was a big discontent with their customers → they made the decission to not support any 3rd Party vendors for Disk Drives anymore. FYI:This will be changed again, back to normal in a hopeful near future!As you can see here, in Synologys official German channel on YouTube, they announced their Solution Day 2025. In the comments a customer is asking when the mentioned support for 3rd Party HDDs will be back again… And they answered as follows:  Hello RogerStocker,Thank you for your candid comment! We know that many users would like to see more flexibility when it comes to HDDs. We are currently in talks with manufacturers to ensure that third-party hard drives will be officially supported again in the future. However, this is a process that cannot be completed overnight.We will keep you updated on this – thank you for your patience! 💡 Synology Solution Day 2025 | Teaser - YouTube  Best,

Dear Community, Recently, I encountered an issue while running a scheduled backup job using Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows. The backup failed with the error "Failed to create VSS snapshot."Successfully resolved the issue, and I’d like to share the steps I took in case they help. Solution That Worked:Simply by restarting the VSS (Volume Shadow Copy) service, which might have become unstable or stuck. Here’s what I did:Opened an Command Prompt (Run as Administrator)Ran the following commands:net stop vss net start vss You can also restart these services in services.msc:Volume Shadow Copy Microsoft Software Shadow Copy Provider That’s it! After this, I re-ran the backup job and it completed successfully without any errors. As a Veeam Community member, I truly appreciate the robustness of Veeam tools this issue highlighted the importance of VSS for reliable backups, and I hope this article helps others facing the same error; feel free to reply or DM me if you need further help happy to

WARNING: Exciting content 🕺🏻This blog post has a little bit of everything: A little bit of compliance, a little bit of encryption, a little bit of REST API, and a little bit of V13, like in this song.IntroductionThe EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) requires financial entities to protect their data using robust cryptographic methods. Two key articles, Article 6 (Encryption and Cryptographic Controls) and Article 7 (Cryptographic Key Management), set out what must be done. If you use Veeam for backups, you can meet many of these requirements.DORA - Summary of Relevant Requirements (Articles 6 & 7)DORA requires financial organizations to encrypt backup data at rest and during transfer. Connections within the organization and with external partners must also be protected using encryption. In addition, there must be clear rules for managing cryptographic keys throughout their entire lifecycle, including creation, storage, renewal, backup, and secure destruction. If a key

Hi community, While waiting for Veeam Backup for MS365 to release a tool for migrating backup data from one bucket to another, I was thinking what could be another way of doing it. On the forum I saw that there are several options by using other tools, which are currently not supported by Veeam, as they might change the structure of files, but seems to work, and I thought of Veeam object storage backup feature. Has anyone used object storage backup job to archive Veeam for MS365 backups? It won’t help with backup mapping and will only be ok for smaller environments, but purely for archival purposes it doesn’t look to bad for me.  Thank you!

Backup schedule periodically every n number of minutes/hours is a not customizable. It selects a random time and other jobs takes over the same schedule time with similar schedule. Time periods also of no use as it doesn’t run if a specific time is selected. This should be permitted 24 hours or else the job won’t run. It all depends on the random time selected by the job.It is a disaster that multiple jobs will run at same and throws errors.

Today while I was working in the Veeam Windows Console for v13 I hit a strange error when copying a job error message to the clipboard.  It let me paste but the error noted is just a minor annoyance.  I have reported this and you can read it below and on my blog.  Once confirmed I will update things on the community and my blog post.Veeam Console – Possible BUG – Copying to Clipboard Veeam Console – Possible BUG – Copying to Clipboard I have been using Veeam v13 more frequently lately, particularly the VSA and the Windows Console application. Today, I encountered an unusual issue with the Console application while copying an error message from a job to the clipboard for investigation. The message below appeared, but I was still able to paste the clipboard contents regardless.Copy to Clipboard Error (Potential Bug?)I have posted this in the Veeam 100 thread (not everyone will see this, as it is a special section of the Forums) as a possible bug, which you can see here if you have access

Hi Team, Does Veeam Support AOS 7.3 with ESXi 7U3?  Does Veeam care of AOS is 7.3 since the backups are running against vCenter? Veam version is 11a

Hi all,I finally found time to deploy the most recent version of v13 (final first release) within my lab and I quickly ran into the issue that the Web GUI shows "failed to check for updates" even after I ran through the process and updates the appliance.The host management GUI shows that the system is up-to-date, so I assume that the update was installed successfully - the VSA even rebooted during that process.  I already restarted the VSA (and the whole lab environment tbh) so there can't be any caching issue as far as I can tell. Veeam Support Case is already open. R&D: https://forums.veeam.com/veeam-backup-replication-f2/v13-failed-to-update-but-system-is-up-to-date-t100160.html Any ideas on that? Best regardsLukas

Data mobility has become a top priority for many organizations. Why? Because the cost of virtualization is rising quickly. VMware, Microsoft, and many HCI solutions have always carried a price, but recent changes have pushed those costs far beyond what most budgets anticipated.Have we been accustomed to the historically low total cost of ownership for virtualization? Perhaps.What is certain is that being vendor-flexible and infrastructure-mobile is now a financial necessity.In this quick overview, we will show how Veeam + OOTBI can serve as your all-in-one solution for staying agile and in control.As a bonus – I will be recovering directly to our Hyper-V Failover Cluster!Here I have my Test Workstation from my VMware backups that I will be using instant recovery to convert the machine to a Hyper-V Clustered resource (role).I have a lighter load on my Hyper-V Host 2 and want it to be restored as a cluster resource.Here you can see I have a CSV (Cluster Shared Volume) from our SAN that I

Data is at the forefront of what drives organizations today. It drives businesses, powering operations, assisting with decision making and providing a competitive edge. At its core, Veeam Data Platform protects organization’s data, giving it resiliency and the strength to bounce back from disruption. To achieve ultimate resiliency, organizations need to encompass more than just backup, they need to think about recovery, security, intelligence and automation. With this, the monitoring and analytics provided within the Platform, empowers organizations to shift from reactive to proactive data resilience. This latest release continues to innovate, giving customers more options on how they want to consume Veeam.Veeam is all about giving customers choice, giving them the option to self-manage their backup environment, consume it as-a-Service, or utilize a Service Provider to help them manage data protection operations. With the latest news from Veeam, now you can utilize the Veeam Software A

​ Oracle Retention for RMAN and Veeam Plugin Backup   When it comes to RMAN, Veeam acts as a storage location utilized by the Oracle SBT interface. Therefore, it is RMAN retention settings that are utilized to manage the backups generated when using the Veeam Plugin backup protection.Typical retention for application aware backup will focus on the most recent restore points and mark backups to be pruned per familiar Veeam retention policies and retention methods.With Oracle, an incremental strategy employs a combination of incremental level 0, incremental level 1 and incremental level 1 with cumulative incremental or stand alone full. Each of these backup types dictate what data RMAN will identify and capture to create backup sets.Data captured during any one of these types can be manipulated as desired by the user. Typically, an incremental level 0 backup will capture all files necessary to restore and recover a database including the Initialization or SPFILE, Control File, all databa

Hi All, With the latest release of the Linux appliance for Veeam Backup: KB4738: Release Information for Veeam Backup & Replication 13 Virtual Appliance can we install some of the management agent to perform: EDR - Endpoint Detection and Response (for anti malware or detecting malicious activity) Infra monitoring (DiskSpace, Utilization and Uptime). Software deployment and Vulnerability or patching agent. Is this possible without affecting the software’s supportability?

The Veeam SAP HANA Plugin is an SAP-certified backup tool that connects directly to SAP HANA through the Backint interface and lets you store transaction-consistent database backups and log files in Veeam backup repositories. It acts as an intermediary between the SAP HANA server and Veeam, compresses the backups, transfers them to the Veeam repository via Data Mover, and allows backup and restore operations using native SAP tools such as SAP HANA Studio, Cockpit, and HDBSQL.As the plug-in only establishes the interface to Veeam, all further configuration is carried out via SAP, and SAP administrators are free to configure this as they wish.Installing the plugin is quite simple, but there are a few things to consider beforehand. Preparations / Basic InformationOS and HANA VersionThe OS and SAP HANA version must be compatible with the currently used Veeam version.https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/plugins/system_requirements_saphana_64.html?ver=120 Firewall RulesFirewall rules mus

Backing up a postgresql database path on a suse linux enterprise vm, using  Backup Job: Backup → Linux Computer -Error received: 9/10/2025 5:05:53 AM :: Processing suseprod Error: Failed to execute agent management command print. Failed to find the agent certificate. Possible reason: a recent change of hardware could cause the HWID to change as well. Changes i made, i had changed the vm hyperv config version for this vm from 10 to 8, thus changing vm name. I ran this same backup job, got error above, created a brand new backup job/chain  same error, at the manage credentials section i used same root password. This backup worked for me earlier this year and last, but with both success and error due based on reports. Sometimes errors, other times success. right now it fails within 1 minute of trying to backup: Any fix/workaround please, Can Veeam 12 backup postgresql directly from my suse linux server, if so what are the steps?

With the release of Veeam Software Appliance and JeOS, deployment processes have become significantly more streamlined. In Europe, the prevalence of multiple languages naturally results in a variety of keyboard layouts, such as Azerty for French users, Qwertz for German users, and a Danish variant of Qwerty to accommodate specific characters like Å, Æ, and Ø. However, the rapid installation process does not provide the opportunity to configure keyboard settings during setup.There is, however, an effective solution. JeOS is an optimised and secure edition of Rocky Linux, and its installation is managed through an automated kickstart script. Settings such as keyboard layout, timezone, timesource, and network configuration are all specified within this script. To ensure every installation includes your preferred configurations, you can update or remaster the ISO and integrate these settings directly. For this purpose, I have developed a custom script, ksmod.py, which is available at https

I’d like to setup Veeam Windows Backup and Recovery for 1 physical PC. What software and license are required to set this up?

​In the first part of this three part blogpost we’ve discussed why to use gMSAs to achieve application consistency before backing up our workloads with Veeam Backup and Replication (VBR).In this part I will show you, how easy it can be implemented with VBR and how the process differs from the official manual.  (1) Ensure your forest schema is updated to (at least) Windows 2012 (Version 56+)First, check your version of the forest schema and increase it, if needed, beforehand. You might well go all the way up to the maximum possible level for your most legacy domain controller. Check for compatibility with other domain related services like Exchange servers etc. first, to make sure you don’t break other things. (2) Make sure you have created a KDS root keyThe KDS root key is a crucial component of the Microsoft Group Key Distribution Service (KdsSvc). It is used to generate group keys that are distributed within an Active Directory environment. This root key is essential for creating gro

When it comes to Veeam Hardened Repository Server, we hopefully talk about a dedicated hardware server. Because of the high secure implementation of this feature it makes perfect sense to disable any additional attack surface. So it is highly recommended to disable platforms like HPE ilO and Dell iDRAC.On the other side, it is essential to monitor this piece of hardware. IMHO it is important not to open any incoming network ports for monitoring. Means, monitoring (agent, script, deamon, ...) should open a port from within the host to in external instance like mail-server, SNMP-host, syslog-server, … and closes it afterwards. Otherwise a service - most probably with root-permissions - is running and open for external access.So how did you implement hardware monitoring?

After four years away from Veeam (now a Pure Storage Principal Technologist), v13 represents the evolution I always hoped to see. This isn't just another release. v13 is Veeam's comprehensive answer to modern infrastructure challenges. Key Transformations:Web UI Revolution: Complete backup management in-browser, eliminating dedicated management workstations Security-First Foundation: STIG-compliant hardened Linux with enforced MFA and dual admin model from deployment Hybrid Infrastructure Ready: Modern foundation while maintaining full backward compatibility Appliance Simplicity: OVA deployment with wizard-driven hardening, without being stuck In The Box.The Linux foundation isn't just OS modernization it is in reality an infrastructure alignment; strongly catering to security-conscious hybrid environments. Having seen customer challenges from both the backup and storage sides, v13 addresses every major adoption barrier I encountered as a SE.Bottom Line: This is Veeam's strategic reset

A previous post (https://community.veeam.com/blogs-and-podcasts-57/veeamsoftwareappliance-on-fedora-42-11241) covered how to set up the software appliance on a Fedora 42 host, including network configuration for direct bridging. This post provides information on setting up a Veeam Hardened Repository.While this documentation is intended for lab use, it may also be relevant for SMB customers seeking guidance on configuring an all-in-one appliance. Security considerations were not a primary focus, so additional safety measures may be necessary. For instance, it may be advisable not to bridge the host itself to prevent external access after installation.First, install virt-install to quickly set up new virtual machines.sudo dnf install virt-install -yIf you want the disks on another drive set (eg /dev/sdb mounted to /mnt/backup), we can create a subdirectory for the user on it and add as a pool. sudo mkdir /mnt/backup/$USERsudo chown $USER:$USER /mnt/backup/$USERmkdir /mnt/backup/$USER/da