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Hi all,I've written and tested a PowerShell script to harden a standalone Windows Server 2025 machine running Veeam Backup & Replication, based on the CIS Benchmarks (Level 1 & 2). I’m sharing it here in case it helps others — feedback is welcome!What the Script DoesThis script configures the server securely without breaking core Veeam functionality. It includes: Account Policies: Max password age, complexity, and lockout thresholds (CIS 1.1.x, 1.2.x) Guest & Anonymous Access: Disabled for better baseline security Audit Policy: Enabled for all major categories (CIS 17.x) Unneeded Services: Disabled (safe defaults — e.g., Print Spooler, Xbox services) Windows Defender: Hardened settings with MAPS Advanced, PUA protection, etc. Firewall Configuration: Enables Windows Firewall with a default deny-inbound policy Allows Veeam ports: TCP 6160–6162, 445 (SMB), 135–139 (RPC) Blocks inbound RDP (port 3389) entirely (as this is often a target surface) SMB Pr

Hi All,If we keep our Veeam VBR on V12.3.2.4165 and we upgrade the Veeam backup for AWS appliance from V9 to V10 what has integration with this VBR. Will that break the integration. Is there only integration with VBR V13?I did request this question in a case and got the following answer backRegarding Veeam Backup for AWS, upgrading from version 9.1.0.45 to version 10 will not impact integration with VBR 12.3.2.4165. There are no documented version dependencies or incompatibilities between these specific versions.However on a Reddit forum I found a topic where customers told that the upgrade did break the connection with there VBR on V12.3.2.4165Veeam Backup for AWS 10 : r/VeeamOr is there a newer version of the plugin that repairs this connection if it gets broken.Counting on your experienceThanks,Benny

Customer has Wasabi for M365 backups -- needs to migrate to on-premise S3-compatible storage -- what is the best and fastest (if not the same) options do I have

I try to migrate my vmware VM to hyper-v using veeam and i always got ‘failed to modify disks”. Anyone know how to fix this? 

Object First OOTBI (Out-of-the-Box Immutability) is a purpose-built, secure, and immutable backup storage solution engineered specifically for Veeam Backup & Replication. By combining storage performance, immutability, and simplicity, OOTBI helps IT teams achieve reliable data protection while reducing operational overhead.Also, OOTBI eliminates the complexity associated with traditional backup storage by offering an appliance that you can deploy, configure, and integrate with Veeam in minutes. Below are some article relating to Object First OOTBI.Steps to configure Object First OOTBI Appliance | Veeam Community Resource Hub Enable Honeypot on Object First | Veeam Community Resource Hub  Steps to integrate OOTBI with Veeam Backup and Replication and Perform Backup and Restore | Veeam Community Resource Hub Comparing OOTBI by ObjectFirst to VHR | Veeam Community Resource Hub Object First Appliance Setup and Remote Connection Options | Veeam Community Resource HubRole-Based Access Co

Hi everybody, currently we’re working with a customer who has build already 5yrs of retention with AvePoint. Migrating the backupchain from one to another product is in most cases not possible. Is anybody aware of the existence of ‘standby’ licenses where the customer pays less but has the ability to restore for a certain period without adding new points ? This gives him then the time to build op the retention on Veeam Backup for M365. It would be nice if we could create here a list of products / vendors who have such and option. (mostly not public available on their website) Then we can already now during onboarding what route we have to go.

I have been using BackBlaze for cloud storage for about 5 years with Veeam12. I am now moving to Veeam 13 and want to attach to a new bucket. I created the bucket and attached to BB using a new application key. The problem I am having is when I got to ‘Select Folder’ I can see the bucket but cannot list any folders under the bucket. Since I cannot list the folders I cannot select a folder which means I cannot continue. There are no errors generated. Any ideas aside from open a support ticket?

Good evening, wonderful community!I'm not very active anymore, but you’ve always stayed close to my heart. To my fellow Windows users: I revisited some code, updated a topic from last year and completely rebuilt it for the 2025 version.I'm talking about: https://community.veeam.com/blogs-and-podcasts-57/direct-to-windows-object-storage-on-premise-with-minio-6055Are you still looking to test direct-to-Object Storage in an on-prem Windows Server environment? Well…This time, I used a simple internal setup, used purely for testing and educational purposes, yet fully on-prem and Windows compatible:Proxmox VE 8.4 Veeam Backup & Replication 12.3.2.3617 MinIO Server Community Edition 2025Note: as before, this setup is intended strictly for internal testing and educational use.Prepare your Object Storage Windows ServerI set up and updated a Windows Server 2025 for MinIO Community, keeping it in a Workgroup.This time, the VM had a single disk with 100GB allocated for both the OS and data.The

Hi folks, as of today, V13.0.1 for Veeam Backup & Replication is generally available! This release also supports Windows Server versions of VBR.In addition, Veeam Recovery Orchestrator (VRO) v13.0.0 and some other products like Veeam ONE v13.0.1 and Veeam Service Provider Console v9.1 have also been released today. So I went into my lab and just started the upgrade procedure from my Veeam Recovery Orchestrator Environment / VRO 7.2.1 → 13.0.0.See the steps below and hopefully no issues… Download the binaries from: Discover the Latest Version of Veeam Solutions. And make sure you have a backup of your current installation 😀 Step-by-step in Screenshots: If nothing special mentioned, it’s in my case a Next, Next, Finish process... Goodbye old icons?                         oops, let’s see… I just copied the mentioned warning in the clipboard: Mostly deprecated features (within VBR), wh

Hi all,We have been using veeam backup and replication for some time with no issues, test restores work every time. Our licence on B&R shows enterprise plus, and the package shows as essentials. We have always renewed through an MSP.They have just quoted for renewal and i noticed the price had doubled and they had moved to monthly billing, so i queried it and was told they were offering a different package now called ‘Data platform advanced’ - hence the higher pricing.I am a bit confused about what actual licence we need to carry on as we are with the software which we are happy with? On the actual software the licence says ‘Edition enterprise plus, package essentials’When logging into veeam the licences say we currently have ‘Veeam Data Platform Essentials Universal’  And our MSP want to sell us ‘Data platforms advanced’ Are ‘edition enterprise plus, package essentials’ and ‘veeam data platform essentials universal’ the same thing?If i accept the MSP ofer of ‘data platforms advanc

Hey everyone,Let’s kick this off by highlighting that as of this moment, Microsoft SQL Server 2025 has not yet been validated for the Veeam Data Platform, as it was only made GA yesterday the 18th November 2025, so the information I’m providing here is in preparation for the inevitable support when it’s passed through Veeam’s QA.Microsoft have now released Microsoft SQL Server 2025 and in reviewing the changes, I stumbled upon some insights that I thought would be worth highlighting to those still using Microsoft SQL Server to power their Veeam Data Platform installations.Starting with Microsoft SQL Server 2025 Standard Edition, Microsoft are making two key changes that will impact scalability; an increased CPU core count, and increased maximum RAM limits. Now they are:CPU Socket Count: This is unchanged and still a maximum of 4x CPU Sockets. If you’re finding idle cores a lot with your SQL Server instance, make sure this isn’t your limit! CPU Core Count: This is increasing 50% from a

I have setup a new server on our network. Connected to domain, network, hyper-v installed and I am unable to add this server to the Virtual Infrastructure > Microsoft Hyper-V > Standalone Hosts > (server).  I have my Veeam server trying to contact our new server and there seems to be a road block. I am running Veeam V11a trying to setup a new 2019 windows server. During the hyper-v setup process I have added the name and/or IP address, I have selected the last option (standalone) which matches the description of the new server.  My credentials do work because I ran a test to setup a VM running server 2019 and I was able to set that up right away. For some reason the physical server is blocking the Veeam connection.  Is there a firewall exception I need to add?  I did attempt to manually add the physical server to Veeam so the agent might create its own firewall exceptions. I was unsuccessful at that as well.

When trying to add a Hyper-V host to VBR 13 from either the web console or GUI, we receive the error ‘Samba failed with error: NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED - Can’t load /etc/samba/smb.conf.  The same error occurs when trying to add MS Server 2022 and 2025.  The MS server has it’s firewall disabled.Anyone else experienced this issue?Dave 

Boosting Resilience in Bare-Metal Active Active Clusters: 4 and 5 Node Control Plane Architecture (4.17 ⬆ Version)  Organizations running active-active deployments across two locations—especially those hosting stateful workloads like OpenShift Virtualization VMs that run only a single instance—depend heavily on the underlying infrastructure to guarantee availability.While traditional virtualization platforms handle this natively, running these workloads on OpenShift bare metal introduces new architectural considerations. The Challenge: What Happens When the Primary Site Fails? ⚠️In typical stretched OpenShift clusters, the control plane is often deployed in a 2+1 or 1+1+1 topology.But if the data center hosting the majority of control-plane nodes goes down: The surviving control-plane node becomes the only source of truth for the cluster. That single node must switch to read-write mode and act as the exclusive etcd copy. If that node fails… recovery becomes catastrophic, especially

Hello All, Can I use the new linux based appliance as a community version like the on-premise windows edition?Has anybody tried using it?I am very curious about the experience of it.

I was trying to configure a VBR location profile for my OpenShift cluster, but it says ‘Repository not found’.When I runcurl -v -k -u Administrator:<password> https://<vbr-ip>:9419/api/v1/repositories, it doesn’t return any value.

Hello,I have a problem with configuring the Backup Job.We have one server hosted on Hetzner and I need to backup it just once and restore it.I don’t know what could be the prerequisites for this, do I need to expose our VBR ports to the Hetzner?Currently I manage to create protection group, added Hetzner server without any problems, rescaning is working, but when I try to create a backup job using Veeam agent it fails with the following error message:3/4/2024 14:03:40 :: Failed to send backup job configuration to X Error: Failed to update backup job Managed by agent job name: Agent Backup Policy 3.Invalid job configuration.Connection problems.Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.Failed to establish connection: no valid IP addresses were found.A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond VBR IP Addres:10005   

Hi, my backup is showing this error, can someone please help me? Both machines are VMs in Hyper-V.  

Hello Veeam People,I have problems with opening Guest File Restore from Backups.I’m trying to configure some restores for our Revit Server scenarios.The problem is that I choose which point I want, proced to browse the files and then I’m stuck with the following popup window: What can be the issue here, I checked the Mount Server, it’s the VMs where our Repos are connected via iSCSi.Windows Server VMsThank you in advance.

Hi Community,  I just keep getting this error on one of my esxii and I am stuck in here. we already tried to troubleshoot the esxii by restarting every servicies and the esxii itself but it is not working. We have 3 other esxii that are just working fine but this one just show this error.NB: We gave an account with max privilege to try the backup Error: Failed to open VDDK disk [[Datastore_DELL_PowerEdge_120] VM-DNS1/VM-DNS1-1-000001.vmdk] ( is read-only mode - [true] ) Logon attempt with parameters [VC/ESX: [192.168.1.170];Port: 443;Login: [xxx];VMX Spec: [moref=vm-32];Snapshot mor: [snapshot-135];Transports: [nbd];Read Only: [true]] failed because of the following errors: Failed to open disk for read. Failed to upload disk 'vddkConnSpec>' Agent failed to process method {DataTransfer.SyncDisk}.

I am currently working on my first larger V13 deployment outside of my lab. There are a few stumbling blocks here, because the procedure is slightly different from V12 and the Help Center is unfortunately not yet complete at this point in time (Veeam is working hard to change this quickly and have it complete soon).One of these stumbling blocks was connecting the Veeam VBR V13 server to the Veeam ONE V13 server, which I would like to describe to you in this post. First off, my problem was a user/login issue.Firewall PoliciesIf the servers are located in separate networks, the appropriate firewall policies must always be configured.https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/one/userguide/ports.html?ver=13Access to host managementAccess to host management via port “10443” on the VBR server must be available, and the login details for “veeamso” and “veeamadmin” or an other Host Admin and Security Officer must be provided.Creating usersWhen creating users, I made a crucial mistake that cost me a lo

I’m testing several On-Prem S3 Object Backups ( Backing up Object Storage in 12.1) no matter which of the 4 systems I try I get the attached error. All of the systems have “buckets” that Veeam 12.1 has written to, and they have data in them, and are set as repo’s in VBR that I am using for this test. Suggestions? Error is attached - I get it on all of them. 

I am having trouble accessing the remaining 3 workstations I don't know where they are I only have 4 workstations here. I am here at the VBR.

Hi, I have a protection group of 8 windows machines.  The machines were added to the protection group using their host names.  The machines get their ip from a DHCP server.  I see that one of the machines, originally with ip 192.168.1.151, is not 192.168.1.155 and is not being backed up.  Is there a way to update the protection group for the new ip?  Unfortunately, I cannot revert back to the original ip because that ip is now being used by another machine (that’s not part of the protection group).