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I think part of the confusion around high availability comes from how universally we try to apply it.Once it works well at the application layer, the instinct is to push the same thinking everywhere else. If something matters, it should be highly available. Reduce downtime, remove single points of failure, make everything seamless.That logic starts to break down when you look at systems that aren’t serving users directly, like backup systems.There’s a discussion in the Veeam community where someone asked a straightforward question: how do you make Veeam for AWS highly available?One of the answers pointed in a different direction. Instead of treating it as something that must always stay up, the focus was on backing up its configuration and, if needed, redeploying a new instance and restoring it.At first, that feels counterintuitive. If everything else is designed for high availability, why not this as well?But it makes more sense once you th

 In this guide, we will discuss the steps to Update Veeam Backup & Replication to Build 13.0.1.2067 due to the following security Vulnerabilities. Veeam Backup & Replication 13.0.1.2067 delivers critical updates focused on strengthening security, improving platform stability, and enhancing integration across backup, cloud, and storage environments.If you have still not patched your VBR yet, you will find this guide very useful: https://techdirectarchive.com/2026/05/19/how-to-patch-vbr-server/

This article is intentionally for one specific scenario: upgrading an existing Windows-based Veeam Backup & Replication installation from v12.x to v13—including the issues that can come up in real-world upgrades.I already wrote a general blog post about patches/upgrades that serves as a guideline for practically all Veeam updates (pre-checks, order of operations, typical pitfalls, rollback strategy, change window, etc.). That guidance is still fully valid.   What about the VSA (Veeam Software/Server Appliance)?If you can/want to move directly to the VSA

Hi Community! If you use Veeam Backup & Replication to protect Linux environments, you may have encountered the strict requirements of its kernel modules. I recently had an interesting problem with a Oracle Linux 8.9 system running Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (UEK).SituationThe plan was simple: use the Veeam Agent for Linux (VAL) in managed mode to backup some Folders and a PostgreSQL database. I needed something called "Application-Aware Processing" (AAP) to make sure the database was consistent, so I couldn't use 'nosnap mode' (which doesn't require the kernel module).TaskHere is what the environment looked like: Veeam Agent for Linux (VAL): 6.3.2 OS: Oracle Linux 8.9 Kernel (UEK): 5.15.0-205.149.5.1.el8uek.x86_64 Veeam module status: veeamsnap, 6.3.2.1207: added (via dkms status)IssueWhen starting th

Hello everyone,I need some help with an issue and hope I won’t have to contact support.  I’m seeing several failures on a file backup with the following error message:Failed to perform repair backup Error: Agent: Failed to process method {NasMaster.TransformMeta}: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.Error: Agent: Failed to process method {NasMaster.TransformMeta}: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.Processing finished with errors  I checked the logs, and the only thing that stands out are warnings like:Masks are not applicable for the server pathSo I understand that my exclusions cannot be taken into account. I can’t seem to find a solution; I ran a Backup health check which returned the error:Failed to perform repairing backup Error: Agent: Failed to process method {NasMaster.TransformMeta}: The process cannot a

I want the Hyper-V VMs backed up to restore each of the 6  (600GB+)I want the Windows 2022 Standard Server to be bare metal recoveredWhat is the best way of doing it? 

 In this post, I intend to explore key concepts of Agentic AI, outline the risks posed by autonomous agents, and discuss mitigation strategies and emerging global standards that shape responsible agent deployment.This is a fascinating topic that goes beyond the traditional borders of IT cybersecurity.For each concept, threat, and mitigation strategy presented in the text, a practical example will simulate a customer interacting with an airline AI agent to manage a seat.Most of the content below is based on the “State of Agentic AI Security and Governance” and “Agentic AI – Threats and Mitigations” reports from the OWASP GenAI Security Project – Agentic Security Initiative (ASI).You can also get access to this article on my blog: 

Hello!I look through logs, and see this texttransport mode: [hotadd], max sectors to read/write: [8192], async I/O: [unsupported]The backup operation ends successfully, but why could possibly async I/O be unsupported for hotadd? I've changed VBR VM (it's a Default Proxy) SCSI Controller type to VMware Paravirtual and it didn't help and sincerely I'm out of options to guess. Can you suggest me a direction to dig?

 In this article, we will discuss how to Leverage Azure Blob Storage as an Object Storage Repo in Veeam. Azure Storage Accounts provide the foundational management layer for storing cloud data in Microsoft Azure. For the entire blogpost, please see https://techdirectarchive.com/2026/05/16/leverage-azure-blob-storage-as-an-object-storage-repo-in-veeam/They create a unique, secure, highly scalable, and globally accessible namespace for your data. Azure Storage Account give you access to Azure’s core storage services. Such as the Blob Storage (object storage), Azure Files (SMB file shares), Queue Storage (messaging), and Table Storage (NoSQL key-value data).

I have been recently reading a great book on German philosophy and hit upon a debate on language that can be easily time travelled to today with all the questions surrounding AI. After all they are not called Large Language Models for nothing.  Yesterday evening when reading about Johann Gottfried (ha that is my first name in German Geoffrey 😁)Herder and Johann Georg Hamman both born in the 17 hundreds it suddenly struck me the debates going on back then have taken on a whole new meaning with LLMS. Do LLMs think? I asked AI about Herder and Hamann’s views:“Philosophers like Herder and Hamann argued that meaning is rooted in embodied, social, historical experience you can't separate words from the life lived around them. On this view, LLMs produce the shape of language without the substance.”This i

Hi community! I’m working on an architecture to implement VRO with a Clean Room. I ll be in this kind of topology :  I notice in the prerequisites, this point : “The current release of Veeam Recovery Orchestrator (v 13.0.1) requires at minimum an initial connection to the production vCenter to gather inventory and create restore plans using vSphere tags.Connection to the production VBR is optional and only required to create restore plans based on backup jobs.”The principle of a clean room is to have an envir

Digital Sovereignty  A few weeks ago, I was at the Women in Tech Global Summit in Cape Town, and one topic kept coming up in almost every conversation: digital sovereignty.I went into it expecting the usual conversations—compliance, regulations, cloud regions. And yeah, those came up.But that’s not really what people leaned into.The discussion felt different. It was less about frameworks and more about control.It felt more like a question than a concept: if you don’t control your data and infrastructure, do you really control your future?What made it even more interesting is that this wasn’t just coming from one event. Around the same time, the TDGI Africa Symposium was bringing together p

hello, i am running veeam agent 13 standalone free editon, the latest version. i know it is the latest version, as about dialog box shows that.i getting the following error and i do know understand what the exact issue is?please, my first question is did veeam actually complete the backup?this has been going on for several weeks.the full backup is done each week and it completes without error.what does `Agent failed to process method {Signature.FullRecheckBackup}` means and perhaps how to fix it?the destination is a smb share on a synology device. tho, in this case, as mentioned, the client is running standalone veeam agent 13note: that same synology device, has been a backup repository for veeam backup and replication for many years, never had any issues. thanks much, david  

Hi,we have Veeam Backup and Replication v13, Community Edition, Build 2067 on Microsoft Windows Server 2019 with Hyper-V.When I try to add a Veeam Data Cloud Vault from the Austria East Region I get the following error:The error occurs during authorization of the backup server after I login using Microsoft, including MFA and after I answer the question if I want to stay signed in (Yes or No has the same effect).If I add the same VDCV Repo on another installation of Veeam (different customer, paid version) it works.I installed the Veeam Console on the only VM of the server and I got the same error.AI suggested to check the version of a specific DLL, which is 2067.I installed a trial license, same error.I disabled all security filtering on the firewall temporarily and checked the logs.Any

Greetings from Puerto Rico,The AsBuiltReport for Backup for Microsoft 365 has received significant community contributions and now supports documentation for version 8.4. This update represents a major milestone in the ongoing development of this reporting tool.In addition to these enhancements, we updated the diagram to incorporate Veeam's latest infrastructure icons, providing a more modern and visually consistent representation of your backup environment. We also added a new chart to visualize backup repository space utilization, along with improvements to several existing charts, offering better insights into your backup infrastructure performance and resource allocation.

With Veeam Backup & Replication v13, we’re not only getting a new version number and plenty of new features — we’re also seeing a deliberate clean-up of the product: some capabilities are now deprecated (no longer available for new configurations), while others have been discontinued (removed completely). That’s not unusual for a major release, but in practice it can affect the areas where environments have “organically” grown over many years: job designs, repository settings, restore habits, and legacy workflows that somehow always worked.So this article is not an upgrade how-to. Instead, it focuses specifically on these features: What changes? What did the feature do? Why might you still run into it operationally? And what’s the modern

I upgraded to Veeam 13 a few weeks ago.   I finished adding my 2.5G network and VLANs on Thursday.   My Ubuntu 24.04 servers are backing up fine.   Veeam 13 in my workgroup wants certificates now.  I had to spin up a Windows 2022 Standalone CA to create certificates for all Windows 10 and 11 workstations.   I will be creating the workstation certs from it today and installing them.   Any suggestions on getting Windows 11 to backup?  I hope the cert does the trick.  2.5G network is much faster.  I will post numbers tonight.  

Hi there,After the first part of this topic, now is time to jump into the good stuff, the main thing here is to be notified every time something changes or goes "wrong".Lets follow u the screenshots, from Setup, to Notifications setup, to finally monitor a couple servers and services.As I said before, this is basic "alive" monitoring, not statistics and deep monitoring, there are other cool tools for that, the topic here is first line, quick and easy! lets go:This is my Uptime-Kuma Dashboard, after install, lets go to Settings, click on your name up right, and click settings, under Settings, we will find an easy and clear menu to config the tool, f

Could you please help with the script in powershell to fetch the backup health check / maintenance schedule for backup jobs and the status or can this be fetched from Veeam ONE ?

Hi Everyone, Last Tuesday I was lucky enough to attend VeeamON in NYC. This time I had to be on the best Burke behavior since I would be at the bar. Before you are shocked, this was the experts bar so no worries about Geoff’s infamously bad bartending skills for those who might have heard about them.I flew into Kennedy airport on an extra early flight to make sure that nothing went wrong. Flights and airports are not immutable unlike good backups so you never know when they will hit you with Delayware or even worse Cancelware! Flying in over the city I saw down below the Verrazzano bridge and it occurred to me that I had never seen it up close. I packed light (Vanguard Backpack!) so took the subway to Bay Ridge station in Brooklyn. Since joining marketing I have changed from the introvert, photo shy personality to a more extravert nature and I am always thinking of that perfect marketing shot (which can then be lowered somewhat in quality by my selfie!).

What are the essential ports required for windows agent based backup in veeam between windows server and backup server ( windows ) , the protection group is already existing and few servers backups are running successfully, new servers are being added to protection group and agent installation / rescan is getting failed 

I am trying to add a Microsoft Azure Stack Hub account to Veeam Backup & Replication v13, but I do not see any option to add Azure Stack Hub under Cloud Infrastructure or Add Server.I also could not find any official Veeam v13 documentation related to Azure Stack Hub integration or support.Has anyone successfully configured Azure Stack Hub with Veeam v13?Is Azure Stack Hub still supported in version 13, or has the feature been removed/changed?Any guidance or documentation would be appreciated.

If the backup jobs fail and show an error message is “Unable to allocate processing resources. Error: Unable to find Hyper-V hosts where VM 'xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx' is registered: Failed to connect to Hyper-V Integration Service on host, port 6163”. I tried to review the settings, and all of them look fine, but the backup jobs failed always. I have run into these issues sometimes, it’s easy to solve, you just need to reboot the Veeam management server or restart the Veeam services of the Veeam management server.

IntroductionMy Veeam Report v13, maintained and extended by L1nkState, is a modernized PowerShell reporting solution for Veeam Backup & Replication v12 and v13.Originally created by Shawn Masterson and later expanded by the community (notably marcohorstmann), this project transforms raw Veeam data into a clean, structured, and highly configurable HTML report designed for both operational teams and MSP environments. Download:L1nkState/My-Veeam-Report-v.13 Origin and EvolutionThe project has an interesting lifecycle:🧱 Original script: created by Shawn Masterson (pre-2018) 🧑‍💻 Community revival: modernized by contributors including marcohorstmann