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Dear community, Does anyone have an idea if I can force a threat hunter signature update? I do have 2 different cases: Lab case (NFR license!)I do have a lab with a NFR license activated and my SureBackup fails on a regular base with the error message, that the Threat Hunter signature update is not possible.I already reviewed the firewall rules and updates a rule set for v12.3 so that every requirement should be done. Customer case (prod license)The SureBackup (antivirus) fails with the error message that there is no signature database available. wr already reviewed the FW rules and don’t see issues. Can I force the signature update manually somehow? If nobody has input on this I will of course open a support ticket! Thanks in advance!Lukas

Hi Community,Does anyone know if is possible to define an especifc name during the sureback job execution for vSphere?The surebackup job give a randon name to the VM that is being  tested adding a 32 hexa charecters as suffix  , like the screnshot below  

Dear Veeam community,I am using Veeam Backup & Replication to back up my data and would like to know if it is possible to add Synology NAS to the list of managed servers in Veeam Backup & Replication. I tried to configure Synology NAS as a Linux server, but I encountered an error: ‘Unable to collect hardware info. scp: /var/services/homes/adminDS/.: No such file or directory’. I have checked the path and permissions but the problem persists. Can you give me instructions or recommendations on how to properly configure the Synology NAS as a managed server in Veeam Backup & Replication? I would appreciate any help or advice. Thank you in advance for your assistance.

Hello,I’m unable to stop or disable Office 365 backup jobs, and I keep getting the error message:“Unable to complete the operation. Another job operation is in progress.”I have already tried stopping all Veeam-related services (Veeam*), as well as rebooting the Veeam Backup server, but the job remains stuck and won’t stop.Current version: Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 8.1.0.331Has anyone encountered this issue before? Any suggestions on how to forcefully stop the job? [13.02.2025 04:14:54.449]     93 (1) Error: Unable to complete the operation. Another job operation is in progress.[13.02.2025 04:14:54.449]     93 (1) Type: System.Exception[13.02.2025 04:14:54.449]     93 (1) Stack:[13.02.2025 04:14:54.449]     93 (1)    at Veeam.Archiver.Engine.Tasks.TaskDictionary.<>c__14`1.<GetTaskResult>b__14_0(Exception inner)[13.02.2025 04:14:54.449]     93 (1)    at System.AggregateException.Handle(Func`2 pred

Hello,We have a Backup Copy on S3 containing multiple backup jobs, and we have noticed that VMs removed from the jobs are not being deleted from the S3 repository, even after exceeding the defined retention period. Full and incremental backup images are still being retained.I would like to understand how retention works in this scenario. Does the fact that the backup chain is incomplete prevent the deletion of old restore points?What are the best practices to ensure the automatic expiration of obsolete backups?Thank you in advance for your help.Best regards,

Hi ​@Madi.Cristil, I have a request for a Webinar topic and ​@Pybarra in the R&D Forums suggested I reach out to you. I would -really- like to see an in-depth webinar & demo session discussing section 2.9 Hardening in the VBR Best Practices Guide (link below), with the subjects of proper segmentation (2.9.1) and “management domains” (2.9.3) being of particular interest. Seeing this in action in a demo environment where the different server & network configurations (both physical and virtual) would be absolutely invaluable since it's almost never discussed in Veeam Best Practices videos beyond the topic of Linux Hardened Repositories.https://bp.veeam.com/security/Design-an ... Hardening/

I’m using the Veeam Agent for Windows (Free Edition) and 6.3.0.177. My primary drive is a 4TB NVMe SSD (NTFS / backup source) and my backup drive is a 4TB USB 3.0 SSD (ReFS / backup target).For a long time now I see performance issues with backups. My first thread about this wasSince then, I replaced my external  USB drive (backup target) three times. I initially had a 1TB WD HDD, replaced it first with the same drive (guarantee/RMA), then with a different 1TB WD HDD and eventually moved to a 4TB SSD.From experienced I noticed three things:The drives became slower with time. With time the backup size increased and formatting or replacing the drive seemed to solve the problem, but the issue would eventually return. I suspected that the performance degradation was due to SMR, so I eventually switched from a HDD to a SSD.

As a Veeam cloud services provider, your goal is to deliver reliable, secure, and scalable solutions that protect your customers' critical data. While Veeam is already recognized as a leader in backup and disaster recovery, adding Veeam Data Cloud M365 to your service portfolio can provide your clients with a powerful cloud-based solution to safeguard their Microsoft 365 environments. In this blog post, we'll dive into why Veeam cloud services providers should embrace Veeam Data Cloud M365 and how it can benefit both your business and your clients.1. The Growing Need for Microsoft 365 BackupMicrosoft 365 has become an essential platform for businesses across the globe. With tools like Outlook, SharePoint, Teams, and OneDrive, it powers collaboration, communication, and productivity for millions of organizations. However, despite its strong cloud infrastructure, Mic

Hi All, I have this weird error happening on my Veeam server.“Host is unreachable. Unable to install backup agent: cannot connect to 192.168.0.100 Error: The parameter is incorrect.”The weird thing is, I’ve checked through all nodes of my Veeam installation and can’t find anything erroring or relating to this error (see pic).In the ‘Name’ section below, those IP addresses do not relate to anything on the LAN, they aren’t even the same subnet. I have no idea where they are coming from.  

Veeam Backup for AWS - Restore Instance or EBS Volumes Failed with timeout We are trying to restore an Ec2 instance or the EBS volume itself but we are getting a timeout error. The get id of the volume to be restored is generated, but the resource is not created.The following messages are displayed in the logs 11.02.2025 11:53:00.375] <10ac> Info         Creating temp resource: [CCloudTempResource] Id: '4c089da9-12ee-45ed-8cba-9d8e16b43d8a' ResourceId: 'vol-0a70a25fdf6e95f61' ResourceType: 'Disk' LocationId: '7111a4d7-2c16-4f08-ad44-29da76fcc61e' CloudAccountId: '5c4fd4b6-79a8-4b0b-a85d-e03ad3a6cb3a' LeaseId: '6f9cdea5-3611-4e32-902c-4eaf7d780d22'[11.02.2025 11:53:00.382] <10ac> Info         [AmazonStateAwaiter] Awaiting volume 'vol-0a70a25fdf6e95f61' for states ['Available']. Timeout: 1800 sec.[11.02.2025 11:53:00.385] <10ac> Info         [CDefaultEc2VolumesManager] Getting volumes by ID: 'vol-0a70a25fdf6e95f61'.[11.02.2025 1

Our Veeam Backup and Enterprise Manager were both hosted on the same server, but I've now relocated the Enterprise Manager to a different server. Should I keep the guest catalog folder (VBRCatalog) on the old server?I know VBRCatalog uses Backup server and it replicates to EM ( if it is, any additional steps required ). Please advise   

Dear Community,Did anyone achieve the below task from Google by Using Veeam Backup?Question:Do we have a solution to take backup from Data stored in GCP Filestore? 

Hello Community and good day,bringing the conversation here as well to further discuss on this topic. First of all, apologies for the long thread but I wanted to provide as much context as possible.I totally agree that using physical boxes exclusively as VHRs and putting the VBR server role alone somewhere else (as long as backup data is physically separated from the VBR server itself) should be the way to go from now on.Looking at our install base, we still have some customers using physical Windows boxes hosting both the primary backup repository and the VBR server role at the same time. To be completely honest, in a scenario where backup data is not physically separated from the VBR server itself I see little point to enabling two-factor authentication for Veeam Backup and Replication users without applying some hardening on these boxes, such as preventing some users from logging onto the operating system.Although the first goal should be to put the VB

I have a fairly simple site, where I have vCenter, 2 ESXi’s, a baremetal veeam backup server and 2 QNAPs for backups storage, also 2 proxies each residing on one of the ESXi (for hot-add).Up until now, when proxies were windows ones and we didn’t use the hardened setup we had the QNAPs attached via iscsi to the proxies, where the proxies would be 1:1 nated via a linux firewall, so they would have a production reachable IP but then translated into non-production network, with different vlans and the traffic would be heavily filtered - this worked very well.I’m redesigning this and moving the repos to linux hardened repositories now, also want to switch over the proxies to run on linux. Is there a way, to keep the repos unreachable for the backup server itself? So the repos would be reachable only by the proxies? I imagine proxies having 2 nics, one towards the backup server and the other in the backup storage network. The backup server needs to be within t

We have a VMware backup tag which contains 16 servers, is there a way to configure the order in which they are backed up?

Can we migrate VM from VMware to Azure Stack HCI/ Azure Local using VBR?Is the steps same with migrating VMware to Hyper-V?

I have one job that started failing to create synthetic fulls on weekends.   The job runs just fine M-F creating incremental backups. I have another job that also creates synthetic full backups over the weekend.  And that job finishes with no errors.  So I know it’s not my NAS (Qnap) that is having issues.So why is it doing this for only the one job?   Error log below. 02.02.2025 16:57:48.444]    <43>   Error (3)    Failed to execute full transform task[02.02.2025 16:57:48.444]    <43>   Error (3)    Agent: Failed to process method {Transform.CompileFIB}: The semaphore timeout period has expired.[02.02.2025 16:57:48.444]    <43>   Error (3)    Asynchronous request operation has failed. [requestsize = 700416] [offset = 1242582327296][02.02.2025 16:57:48.444]    <43>   Error (3)    The semaphore timeout period has expired.[02.02.2025 16:57:48.444]    <43>   Error (3)    Async

In a world where cyberattacks are becoming increasingly sophisticated, trust in our backups has become a constant concern. Is having immutable backups enough? Is storing them offline sufficient? The reality is that while these are good practices, attackers have evolved and now seek to compromise not only production environments but also backup systems. Therefore, backup security should not be seen as a fixed state but as an ongoing process.Aware of this challenge, Veeam® Software and Sophos have joined forces in a strategic partnership to take backup security to the next level.A Partnership to Protect Critical BackupsOn October 24, 2023, Veeam and Sophos announced their collaboration to enhance enterprise cyber resilience. This integration combines the Veeam Data Platform with Sophos Managed Detection and Response (MDR), providing an additional layer of managed detection and r

I would like to verify the data in my backup copy job from my Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 however I cannot find a place where I can select restoring from the copy job instead of the backup job itself. Is it possible to select the data to be restore from the Backup Copy Job?

I’ve been using Veeam for a while now. I was under the impression that I was performing a full backup every week. The way I have been doing this is I have 4 USB hard drives which I rotate. I plug one in on a Friday, wipe it, it backs up over the weekend (no errors), then Monday I unplug it. Friday I plug in the next one and repeat the process.I’ve just had need to restore from a backup, I wanted to restore the entire VM, and it’s errored saying the .vib file is missing. Having had a Google, everything seems to say this is a file for incrementals. Have I rendered all my backups useless up to this point by wiping the disk each week? The backup files it is creating are always a similar size to the VM I’m backing up so I’d assumed it was indeed “Full”. Is there anything I can do to restore my back up, and which setting have I missed in the backup job to make it do actual, proper, full backups?Thank youStuart

Hello,I am looking to recover some files of interest that were backed up to tape over a year ago.  The files were on a Hyper V VM running windows server.  The files were part of a backup job that was run on VEEAM at that time.  I obtained the tapes and imported the entire tape job to our backup server, which is a 5 tape media set around 50 TB.  When I attempt to "Restore guest files" from the imported tape, I get an error message that some of the files are missing and then get the following errors, indicating that "Mount wasn't found".  Of note, the previous backup/tape job was on a different domain that has been since decommissioned, so we are now running our backups under a new domain controller.  Would the old domain be the mount it is looking for?  I'm wondering if it is unable to mount because it is trying to do so on the old domain (which doesn't exist)?  Of note, I utilized the same process in the past to recover files on tape with no issue, but that was on the previou

Sizing for NAS/file share backup can appear difficult initially, but with the help of the unofficial NAS Calculator by Hal Yaman it definitely will be a bit easier.As you can see from the screenshot below you need to know roughly how much source data in TB your file share(s) contain, how many files and directories. In case you are wondering what is primary vs secondary repository? Primary is for your short term retention (newest version) and secondary is for long term retention (older versions than newest).The user guide has some good info on the secondary copy settings.

Hi all,I would like to use Quantum DXi V5000 as deduplication storage appliance  Unfortunately, when adding deduplication storage appliance, there is an error message, that there is no Veeam Data Mover service enabled on the virtual storage appliance To enable Veeam Data Mover service I need to install Veeam Data Mover on the appliance…. The issue is that I do not know default root password for Quantum DXi V5000 and adding non-root user to sudoers file didnt help.Is there any option to manually install Veeam Data Mover on linux based machine? 

 Extracted from original blog at wcithipster.com on Dec 2 Written By Zane AllynManaging datacenters is no small feat. From ensuring backups are reliable to monitoring virtual environments for potential issues, the demands on IT professionals are relentless. During my time as a Veeam customer and datacenter manager, Veeam One was my go-to tool for maintaining visibility and control. It wasn’t just a monitoring solution; it was an operational ally, helping my team and me proactively address challenges, optimize resources, and deliver consistent performance across our environments.Now, with the release of Veeam One V13, the tool I once rel