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Hey There!I shared few days ago on the VMCA Study Hall Community some news regarding VMCA.After many successful years, we are bidding farewell to the Veeam Backup & Replication: Architecture and Design (VMCA) certification, with the training officially retiring on July 31st. If you have already completed your training, you can still take the certification, however hurry up as the VMCA exam will be retired on November 30th 😱 do not wait until the last minute, no exceptions will be done!As one era ends, another begins. Stay tuned for the new (very) exciting certification opportunities coming soon! 

Hello,we have VMs on VMware platform.During VM restore they are removed from affinity rule from cluster level like host rule “should run” or “separate VM”. So in case A side is down is switched into side B and like proxy servers they cannot be 2 on the same esx host, so there is rule separate.As far as i know, only vSphere tags are restore.Is there any option how to restore these rules as well?thank you

When discussing Azure App Registrations backup and recovery, one question that often comes up is, “How does Veeam handle secrets and certificates that are embedded within these registrations?”. It is a great question and I wanted to take the opportunity to double click on this.Client Secrets:Client secrets in App Registrations are treated similarly to passwords. Once a secret is created, its value is only displayed once and is never retrievable again. This behaviour is by design, enforced by Azure and Microsoft Graph to maintain strong security hygiene.It is because of this that:Veeam does not back up or restore the actual secret values as that data is not exposed by the Microsoft Graph API. Veeam does capture metadata such as secret names, creation dates, expiration dates, and ke

Hi Folks, My name is Geoff Burke. I am Community Manager at Object First. I am a Veeam Vanguard and Veeam Legend. I was asked to write something about the Veeam Community and do a short video for the Spotlight series.  Being part of the Veeam 100 Community has been truly a transformative experience for me. I was accepted into the Veeam Community as a member of the inaugural Veeam Legends in 2021. Since then I have been lucky enough to renewed numerous times and was also accepted into the Veeam Vanguards.Make no mistake, the Veeam Community is not about you or me, it is about us! The people you engage with in these communities are top professionals and are very generous when sharing their knowledge. They help you become a better data protection expert and grow. You make friends around the globe and these relationships really to enrich your life.Most importantly the Veeam 100 community is fun! The yearly summits in either Prague or Berlin are

Out-of-the-Box Immutability (Ootbi) is a purpose-built backup storage appliance developed by the founders of Veeam, specifically for Veeam!OOTBI delivers secure, simple, and powerful on-premises backup storage without requiring any security expertise. It will interest you to know that we have discussed extensively the steps to set up, configure and integrate OOTBI with Veeam. Please refer to the following links on the steps to set up and configure a physical appliance.

I’m trying to investigate the levels of Veeam dedup/compression thats typically seen when using a non deduplication appliance. Is it really between 2:1 and 3:1? Again I’m thinking about typical VM workloads.Also if using XFS and fast clone it works in a similar fashion to dedup.Be interested if anyone has any data on data reduction thats “real world”thanks

Since WindowsServerBackup does not support backups of drives over 16TB, I thought I give Veeam Backup Agent for Windows.  Unfortunately it only works for some days and then fails. But let’s start from the beginning. Host is Windows Server 2025 Bare metal File level backup to an external 3.5” HDD set to run dailyNow, let’s look at what happened: 9 days ago we created the job. This worked well until 5 days ago For some reasons, nothing happened 5 days ago 4 days ago, I got this error: this is rather starnge, since I was able to look at the drive E: that hosts the disk.

I just setup a new Windows 2025 Standard server and tried to install VeeamAgentWindows_6.3.1.1074. Unfortunately after accepting EULA the installation starts, shows “migrating previous configuration” (which is a little bit strange, since this is a new Windows machine) and is then stuck at "Installing Veeam agent for Microsoft Windows".  C:\ProgramData\Veeam\Endpoint\DatabaseMigrationLog shows: [27.04.2025 22:25:03] <01> Info     [Migration] SQL CONFIGURATION PARAMETERS:[27.04.2025 22:25:03] <01> Info     [Migration] > Server=(local)[27.04.2025 22:25:03] <01> Info     [Migration] > ServerInstanceName=VeeamEndPoint[27.04.2025 22:25:03] <01> Info     [Migration] > ServerInstancePipeName=[27.04.2025 22:25:03] <01> Info     [Migration] > ServerInstancePort=-1[27.04.2025 22:25:03] <01> Info     [Migration] > DatabaseName=VeeamBackup[27.04.2025 22:25:03] <01> Info

 We need to analyze why the error message is appearing during the backup window. The alerts are being triggered due to the replication process between the T and O servers. Specifically, these alerts occur during the backup window of the T server, which runs from 9:00 PM to 10:00 PM PST. During this period, replication from T to O is paused, resulting in theError 9036: "Paused for backup or restore."However, the alerts are only seen on alternate days, not consistently every day, which requires further investigation. T Server – File1 O Server – File2 Primary Concern:The question raised is why the production server experiences impact—such as replication delays or user access issues—during the backup window. While domain controller replication is standard ac

We are getting an application that runs on MySQL and I need to know if & how Veeam can backup MySQL. So far I’ve found documentation on how to do this in Linux but not Windows. Im running VBR 12.3

How can I add new transactions to a DB without doing a full DB restore? Our DBA are trying to restore a DB to a new server. The DB is huge and the restore process takes several hours. Within those hours, there are new transactions coming in and being backed up using transaction logging. How can we add or restore those new transactions on top of the previously restored DB without doing another full restore using Veeam SQL Explorer? I tried several options but I always end up with the message below. Thanks again for your suggestions.

Hi All, I am trying to configure backup alerts for the Nutanix backups same as VMware in the Nutanix proxies using Azure by creating the App registration process, we have configured everting as per Veeam article but now while sending test email we are getting some SSL error also it is showing not authorized with Microsoft even though it is showing authorized during configuration. In Azure app registration for the same we have selected platform as single page application only, is that correct or we need to select platform as web? please help to resolve this issue as I am not getting much support from Veeam support. Need your help and advice for the same as for Mail configuration we are using Microsoft with modern authentication using port 587. 

I need to migrate a bunch of Hyper-V VMs to a new Windows server for the first time. While researching different options I have seen some info online that Veeam can do this, but I can’t find clear instructions for VBR. Does anyone have any info or links on a guide? Or does this require additional Veeam software? I see various methods are available, but I’m getting into VBR and VBO and want to see what other tasks I can do with Veeam. Plus it seems like it may be an easy task with Veeam since we are already backing these up with VBR.

Hi, In a customer’s VBR 12.3.1.1139 server (free license) we are having some trouble achieving reliable backup times. It’s a big deduplicated file server (11TB of disks total) running on a Hyper-V VM. The software is installed on the host (WS 2022) and it backs up both host and vms. The backup repository is a QNAP NAS with 30TB of space connected via NFS with 10GB/s network. We tried having a job with periodic synthetic fulls and sometimes it took “only” 10 hours, but more often than not it would take more than 2 days.When this happens it seems to get “stuck” at a certain percentage so we cancel the job to leave room for it to continue making its daily backups.Same when merging backups in a forever incremental situation, sometimes it merges data in 3 hours, sometimes it takes 30, for the (presumably) same reason. The console says bottleneck is Target, but the NAS is pretty much new and it’s DEDICATED to backups only, there is n

升级到 veeam v12.3.1.113，但此客户端更新界面无法关闭。我该怎么办？

When updating a vcenter server appliance, part of the process is to replace the old vcenter VM with a new VM that has the same name.The problem I encounter is that the Veeam backup job fails because it seems like it’s trying to continue to backup the old VM which was deleted.…Processing vcenter Error: Cannot find Linux guest credentialsUnable to connect to guest OS for guest processing. Cannot find Linux guest credentialsError: Cannot find Linux guest credentials …Keep in mind that this VM was previously excluded from guest processing and indexing. I even removed the vcenter exclusions and re-added them to the job but when you run the guest credentials test, vcenter is listed twice and fails the tests even though its excluded. That VM shouldn’t even be tested since guest processing and indexing are disabled for Windows and Linux.Below are the errors from the guest credentials test:…6/5/2025 5:03:47 AM F

I have veeam latest version v12.3 and an existing redhat 9.3 server which I want to convert to a hardened repo. I know there are steps to setup a new server but this is an existing OS with the storage mounted already. I need to add all the STIG hardening etc so can someone share these steps before I add it as a hardened repo.thanks.

当前的 VBR 版本是 v12.1.156，我需要升级到最新版本的 veeam，即 v12.3.1.113，但它提示备份任务正在运行。我该怎么办？ 

Dear Community,My recommendations: before upgrading the VBR Application, first upgrade the connected appliance.Upgrading the Veeam Backup for Google Cloud (VBGC) appliance from version 5 to version 6 is a significant process that involves an automated sequence of steps. This upgrade not only updates the VBGC software but also transitions the underlying operating system and database to newer versions. In this article, I share my firsthand experience with the upgrade, detailing each step and highlighting important considerations to ensure a smooth transition. Prerequisites before initiating the upgrade:Green Highlighted is very Important Part and all upgrade depend on it.Verify Compatibility: Ensure that your current VBGC version is 3.0 or later. Backup Configurations: Although the upgrade process creates a snapshot, it's advisable to manually back up your configurations. Check Permissions: Confirm that

Hello.  Looking for feedback on installing the Veeam Windows agent on a desktop machine that’s managed by Microsoft CoPilot We have a service account with a known good password.  VBR requires that the credential be entered as “DOMAIN\username” .  But since the target machine is managed with CoPilot, it seems to need logins to use “username@DOMAIN” When we try to use the “DOMAIN\username” credentials to push the agent, we are getting a “invalid username or password” error from the VBR console, even though we’ve tested the account and we know the password is good Is there any way around this account format issue? we did try entering the credentials in VBR as “user@DOMAIN” but that didn’t work either.

Result of my attempted backupHello again, As you can see from the image above, there was an issue with my backup and none of it saved, the rest of the error info that I could copy is: 22/05/2025 10:45:03 :: Error: Cannot process pending I/O request (offset: 598344892416, size: 65536): async reader terminated Corrupted block processing thread failed unexpectedly Failed to upload disk. Skipped arguments: [EmulatedDiskSpec>]; Agent failed to process method {DataTransfer.SyncDisk}. Exception from server: Cannot process pending I/O request (offset: 598344892416, size: 65536): async reader terminated Unable to retrieve next block transmission command. Number of already processed blocks: [453602]. Failed to download disk 'FA96EA97' Any advice on how to proceed? Thanks!

We have created a backup job for SQL Server, to generate Full + Incremental backup and transaction log backups, and configured GFS for all the database backups (physical servers with GFS policies as well).In the environment there are three SQL Servers as part of an Always On Availability Group cluster.The backup of the DB run and then finishes OK.The Transaction Logs portion, says that all the 44 DB has been skipped.What could be the posible causes that makes the transaction logs not been backed up?On the documentation I've found that to became subject to log backups there are some conditions:    - Databases in the Always On Availability Groups for this node were successfully backed up for the last two processing intervals.The backups has been executed for the last 10 days, and no transaction logs has been backed up.Does the backups and transaction logs has to be run on the primary SQL Server?

Replication Job issues, unable to replicate virtual machine from the source to destination host.   Error: VDDK error: 1 (Unknown error). Value: 0x0000000000000001 Failed to download disk 'VDDK:vddk://[Datastore-Replication] GTBHELP01_replica02/GTBHELP01.vmdk'. Shared memory connection was closed. Failed to upload disk 'vddkConnSpec>' Agent failed to process method {DataTransfer.SyncDisk}.  

Hey guys,I have the same random problem with my Proxies (Windows), VMDK are still attached to my proxies randomly once the job finish. The proxies are not backuped during the different backup jobs. The Vms that Veeam processed is found to require consolidation.On the vmware side I found a log " Unable to access file since it is locked An error occurred while consolidating disks: Failed to lock the file. Consolidation failed for disk node 'scsi0:0': Failed to lock the file." at the end of the backup job.But I don’t find the root cause. Have any of you ever encountered this problem?