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 Extracted from the original blog at wcithipster.com on Nov 25 Written By Zane AllynAs a Veeam Vanguard and a longtime backup enthusiast with more than six years of experience working at Veeam. Today, I’m beyond excited to share an early look at Veeam Backup & Replication v13. This release introduces two major enhancements: a fully Linux-based backup server and an HTTPS-based web console. These updates are not just features; they’re milestones that reflect years of community feedback.This sneak peek is based on alpha code, so things may change before the final release. That said

I’m new using veeam, and our company just decided to use veeam as our backup solution. The 3rd party that setup the backup, is using application oracle agent, so it’s a managed mode as agent was deployed from the VBR.Backup job is running fine, and I saw that it’s using RMAN to backup the database. However, I don’t see a way to modify the RMAN script veeam is using. I have couple of questions:If I want to use recovery catalog, how can I put it in the backup script for the job with veeam managed mode.  How to enable GFS, if I have to retain data for longer term (our requirement is for ex 7 years to retain data)  Is it actually possible to restore from the specific veeam backup files (.vab,.vsm) from RMAN command? I tried to test this to restore specific control file not from the autobackup, as backup information has been deleted from the current control file, but it doesnot able to find it. thank you.

I’m backing up about 30TB of data in my homelab to LTO tape using Veeam 11 CE. Looking at the licensing if I upgrade to Veeam 12 CE then I will be restricted to 5TB of backup, and my jobs will fail. Am I understanding this correctly?ThanksDerek

Hello, Veeam community! Summer may be over, but the good things remain, such as the Veeam Vanguard Newsletter! I am happy to share with you the August one, which is packed with a variety of Veeam-related topics that anyone can relate to. 🤓 Take a look for yourself below and delve deeper into the following: ​@AndreTheGiant  - VMware vSphere versions supported by Veeam Backup & Replication (July 2025) - https://vinfrastructure.it/2025/08/vmware-vsphere-versions-supported-by-veeam-backup-replication-july-2025/ Veeam Backup & Replication Plug-in for Scale Computing HyperCore -

I shared with the Community last week how to get XCP-ng up and running. If you missed it, you can go review this Part 1 post. Here in Part 2 I'm going to discuss how you should begin setting up your XCP-ng environment to be centrally managed by Xen Orchestra (XO), then move on to discuss features in XO you shou

Was previously working as intended, just tried to login.On the login screen there is a popup “Application update error. Try cleaning the browser cache“ Cleaned browser cache but did not change.When logged in there is no organization showing, and as such no backup/restore jobs are showing. Under Settings>Companies I get a popup error: could not prepare statement; SQL [with t as (SELECT c.id as id, cast(c.external_id as text) as externalId, c.name as name, SUM(CASE WHEN s.org_name='production' THEN s.sf_sfdc_used_licenses ELSE 0 END) as users, SUM(CASE WHEN s.org_name='production' THEN (cast(jsonb_extract_path(s.sf_storage, 'data', 'max') as float) - cast(jsonb_extract_path(s.sf_storage, 'data', 'remaining') as float)) ELSE 0 END) as dataSize, SUM(coalesce(s.storage_used, 0)) as storageSize, SUM(coalesce(d.db_size_bytes, 0)) as dbSizeBytes, COUNT(s) as sfOrg FROM vsf_configuration.company c LEFT JOIN vsf_configuration.sf_instance as s on c.id

Hello, I recently installed B&R 12 Community Edition to backup a large file server to tape (about 36TB in one server).The disk backup is done to a QNAP NAS connected via iSCSI to the HyperV Server that hosts the VM (needed to use iSCSI as the QNAP NAS does not support files larger than 16TB).The backup to disk results in a 32TB VBK file. The tape drive is connected to another server running the Veeam Installation.Running a Backup to Tape job on the (VSS snapshotted) backup folder however behaves weirdly: right now after 48 hours the job progress is 99% with 88,9 TB of 88,9 TB transferred to tape but that number keeps on growing to 89 TB of 89 TB and so on. Yesterday it was at 99% with 50 TB of 50 TB transferred.The iSCSI target hosting the backup only has 50 TB in total disk space so reading 88 TB from that drive is rather unlikely.The job states "Continuing task for <VBK-File>" and the task.<Hostname>.performer_1.log

I am deploying the new v13 VSA using the OVA method in my lab VMware environment today and discovered when deploying you could see an SSL warning for the OVA like this -SSL Warning and Ignore option There is a fix for this but it requires that you install two CA certificates from Entrust to the vCenter Trusted Root Store which can be done from the WebUI.  Once those are installed to your vCenter then deploying the OVA will not give you the SSL warning and show a valid certificate.CA Certificates to install -Entrust CA Certificates to install in Trusted Root Store on vCenterAfter that when deploying OVA no more warning and valid certificate

I have been working with VONE 13 since it dropped yesterday and after upgrading my homelab server I found a bug within the Alarms Overview dashboard in the WebUI.  After checking with Jorge in the forums it was noted that if you assign a location to any components this causes the bug.  You need to have no locations and this will be addressed in the next release.Forum Post - (3) Possible Bug - VONE - Alarms Overview screen - R&D ForumsBug -VONE Bug on Alarms Overview screen when Locations assigned Fixed when no locations set -

Hi everyone,Veeam Community Hackathon banner for 2025. Alfred is sitting in the middle behind a desk. He is about to press a button with the text "RUN" on it. Binary code and a slider are shown on the left of Alfred. In the middle, the word “Hackathon” is shown with arrowed lines pointing to icons and text describing several aspects of the Hackathon: Development, Brainstorm, Time, Presenting, Goal, Teamwork, and Community.We are doing a 3rd Annual Veeam Community Hackathon! Dec. 8, 9 AM ET/15:00 CEST to Dec. 13, 9 AM ET/15:00 CEST Yes, you are reading this correctly, ​@JonahMay and ​I (@mkevenaar)  are organizing the 3rd Annual Veeam Community Hackathon. Just like last year, ​

Recently, I migrated our SAP HANA environment to use the Veeam backup plugin, replacing the old Commvault plugin. The process had a few challenges that I want to share for anyone doing something similar. The ProblemAfter uninstalling the Commvault plugin, I noticed that some old configurations were still on the system. This was preventing the Veeam HANA Plugin from being applied correctly. The issues were mainly caused by old configuration files and symbolic links that needed to be adjusted manually.!-->!--> How I Solved It1. Removing other plugin completelyIn SAP HANA, I used specific commands to unregiste

I’ve been googling and am about to open a support case, but I’m checking here first.  I have just built my first linux proxy servers using Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.  Super easy, works great.  Except I have two more that I’m trying to build as CDP proxy’s.  I can setup as regular VMware Proxy’s, but when I attempt to install the CDP Proxy, I get the below errors.Error    Failed to save Veeam CDP proxy: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it <IP Address>:6182Error    Infrastructure item save failed Error: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it <IP Address>:6182 This is my first time using Linux CDP proxy’s.  I did have Windows Proxy’s in place but was having an issue with starting the CDP service on those machines after upgrading to 12.1 and decided

Hi all,  i’d like to clarify a best practice scenario for SOBR with Azure Blob storage.Environment (short) Veeam B&R v12.x — SOBR: Perf = Data Domain, Capacity = Azure Blob Cool (immutability 25 d + 10 d block generation), Archive = Azure Archive. GFS: Weekly 5 weeks, Monthly 7 months (~210 d). Goal: 30 d in Cool, then ≥ 180 d in Archive (Azure minimum). Candidate options (please advise which is best practice) Option A (simple & compliant, slight extra Cool cost): Keep Monthly = 7 months and Archive-after = 30 d. Keep immutability 25 + 10 = 35 d (Capacity cleanup deferred until D+35; ~5 extra Cool days). Option B (cost-optimized, if security allows): Set immutability = 20 + 10 = 30 d to align with Archive-after = 30 d, keep Monthly = 7 months.

Hi,does anybody have experience in backup vms from elastic cloud server (ECS) in the open telekom cloud? My idea would be, installing veeam backup server inside the cloud. Backup the ECS with agents to an external storage provider AWS S3 oder WASABI for example.Greetings Hartmut

With the latest releases coming out today I took the time to upgrade my Veeam ONE server to v13 to see some of the new features and enhancements which are great.  Nice to see how they have refined things and having the Postgres DB for reporting makes things so much faster!See my blog here and below - https://just-virtualization.tech/2025/09/03/upgrading-to-veeam-one-13-0-what-you-need-to-know/ Upgrading to Veeam ONE 13.0: What You Need to KnowToday, Veeam released some major updates to the product lineup, which include –Veeam Software Appliance v13 – ISO or OVA – https://www.veeam.com/veeam_backup_13_whats_new__wn.pdf Veeam ONE v13 – 

I am facing performance speed issues with the agent backup. The server capacity is 8TB, and it takes a very long time to complete the backup. Could you please advise if there are any solutions or recommendations to increase thebackup speed?

Hi Everyone, Just sharing another great event here in Brazil, The Veeam ON Tour!It was time to refresh our knowledge, make new friends and also, meeting another Harley Davidson bikers!! :-)Below: Beth, Jean, Matheus and I, all of us are  VUG Brazil Leaders.We were beside the OOBTI booth, here the OOBTI Team.  It was amazing!!!

We are a vmware shop, being priced out.  Many factors pushing us toward Hyper-V.I understand that in the early days ReFS was bug-ridden in multiple aspects.Going forward with Windows 2025 CORE Hyper-V, with VM’s of Windows2022, RHEL 9, and a few linux-based OVA deployments, what is the community recommendation for the format of the iSCSI LUNs that the VM’s run from?  there will be sizes from a couple hundred GB to all the way to 6TB, and in a special case 20TB.Our Veeam Repos are XFS, so not a factor here.Thank you kindly

Hi All,What is the best resolution to pull Agent backup job reports configured with GFS from VAC integration with REST API or Swagger not using Veeam ONE. Thanks,

Well some good news for those that are fans of my previous three books, today I was able to get my hands on something that will allow me to start the outline and process for the fourth book on v13.  Looking forward to delivering a fresh new take of Veeam v13 with the new appliance model and the JeOS ISO servers.I will also be covering the AI pieces as well that have been put in to the latest releases along with the new VONE v13.  I will see about the Windows version upgrade path and depending how long that takes might skip it from the book and just go with the appliance since this to me is the future.So hold on to your hats and hopefully I can aim to get this out early 2026.  If there are specific topics anyone wants to see covered feel free to post them here or DM me if you like. 😎

Dear Community, If you're a Veeam Cloud & Service Provider (VCSP), support workflows is a routine part of daily operations. Traditionally, raising support tickets with Veeam support involved a manual, time consuming process, collecting logs from tenant VBR servers or Agents, navigating remote access restrictions, and uploading everything to the my.veeam.com portal for investigation. This added unnecessary delays, especially when dealing with restricted environments or needing approvals. With the Veeam Service Provider Console (VSPC), the entire process is streamlined. You can now open tickets directly from the VSPC portal, whether for your own infrastructure or tenant or a reseller and automatically attach the relevant logs. It’s a great improvement and significantly saves time creating support tickets and collecting the required log information. It also speeds up the investigation for Veeam Support Engineers, as they already have the lo

Recently I had to configure a backup on a physical Linux server that stores over half a petabyte of traffic fine images collected from speed cameras on federal highways in Brazil.   The catch: this server runs critical client applications, and any migration to another server is extremely sensitive and requires careful planning before taking action. At the moment, a full migration wasn’t feasible.Due to the urgency of the demand, it was necessary to implement a backup solution immediately, but the server cannot go down for even one minute. Any downtime would mean fines not being recorded, resulting in immediate financial loss.  The Challenge of Backing Up a Mission-Critical Environment