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once i try to install VeeamBackup&Replication the setup refuse to complete it just once started it gives  that The error "unknown exception occurred vmaGetpropertiesFromRegistry"and close the setup and refuse to continue i am sure that happes related to uncorrect uninstalled veeam application is that mean i look for another application ?

Hello Everone, what is the default retention policy applied by Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365 Flex? I noticed this was not covered during the onboarding process or while configuring the backup policy. Is there a default retention period that is applied automatically? Where can we find or view this default setting in the interface or documentation? How can we modify or override it if needed? Thanks in advance for your assistance.

Hello Everyone,We are using Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365 Flex with a license for 250 users.During the initial setup, we tested with 1 user to validate the configuration. After confirming everything was working properly, we deleted this backup job and created a new policy to protect the actual 250 production users.However, we are still seeing the backup for the original test user, and the license usage shows 251 users consumed, even though our license count is 250.I have a few questions regarding this situation: How can we delete or revoke this test user so that it no longer consumes a license? If we keep the test user without removing it, will this impact production users (e.g., only 249 users protected)? Is there any automatic cleanup or retention process that eventually removes old test accounts from the license count, or must it always be handled manually? Any guidance on how to properly handle this case would be greatly appreciated.Thanks in advance for your support. 

Hi there,Veeam B&R 12 is installed on a Windows 2022 Server, which is installed on VMWare ESXi 6.5 U3. From there I backup our produtvie Server, which is a VMWare ESXi 6.7 with a Windows Server 2016 and a Windows Server 2012 R2 (Exchange Server) installed on it. Everything works fine, exept the backup of the Windows 2012 R2 Server. It does backup, but I receive the Warning “Failed to index guest file system. VSS Control: Index failed". Is there any way to fix this, except disabling the file indexing?

Backup for vmsrv0 on hyper v host1 worked always before, but for hyper v host1 i forgot that i turned off vmsrv0 vm LOL, so veeam was backing up a turned off vm. I went into host1 and switched from vmsrv0 to vmsrv1 running the same/replica (OS-Suse Linux Enterprise 12), did not continue backup chain, i just created a new backup to drive. Now i get vmsrv1 Processing vmsrv1 Error: Error: The requested operation could not be completed due to a file system limitation Asynchronous request operation has failed. [requestsize = 1056768] [offset = 240544063488] Failed to download disk 'drive_1_backup.vhdx'. Reconnectable protocol device was closed. Failed to upload disk 'shadowSpec>' Agent failed to process method {DataTransfer.SyncDisk}. Hard disk 2 (4 TB) Error: The requested operation could not be completed due to a file system limitation Asynchronous request operation has failed. [requestsize = 1056768] [offset = 240544063488] Failed to download disk 'drive_1_backup.vhdx'. Reconnectable

Hi, I’m trying to make room in my backup repository for new backups.  My previous retention was set to 90 days and the oldest backup is from 45 days ago.  I changed the retention to 30 days, thinking that Veeam will then delete the backups between 31 and 45 days ago to make room, but it’s not doing that.  Is there a way to prompt it to do that?  I’ve tried to rescan the repository and also re-running the Backup Job, but neither seems to work.  Thank you!

Does Veeam VBR 12.1 cover Server 2008 and 2008 R2 Virtual guests…? Thanks in advance.

Object First storage is used in our main data center.Regional backups are first stored locally, then copied to Object First at the main site using a forever incremental job (using Scale Out repo and Object First configured as capacity tier)Now If full backup data needs to be sent to AWS (e.g., when decommissioning a regional application server), it can be done from the main site through a secondary copy—without using the regional office’s primary copy.

Hey Everyone, wanted to share a few things with the community about Virtualisation or Virtual Machines on Kubernetes, in the field and with the overall Hypervisor Hunger Games all options are on the table it seems. I have made my feelings quite clear around vSphere being the best hypervisor and ultimately today still the best ecosystem but this is not stopping the exploration of alternatives. ​@Geoff Burke and I did a live stream at the end of August touching on a project called Kubevirt, this is the mechanism to run Virtual Machines on Kubernetes, either as an alternative hypervisor and / or alongside your containers. This is also what we find being used in the enterprise products such as Red Hat OpenShift and SUSE Harvester. Every month me and Geoff jump on the live stream and cover something cloudy, DevOpsy or just something interesting.   From this episode and the release of the Veeam Software Appliance, I had an idea lets show the apples to oranges comparison here between say some

Hey Folks, I wanted to share my discovery of Veeam v13 beta with you. ​@Michael Melter  made an excellent post on the installation.I had undertaken the same work so I'm sharing my version with you. On my side, in this first post I go a bit further by presenting the Host Management part. I wish you a good read! 1. Veeam Software ApplianceOne of the flagship announcements at VeeamON was the release of the Linux appliance version - yes, Veeam Backup & Replication is switching to Linux. (The Windows version is not deprecated for now, so don't worry).Objective: we want a product that performs backups without having to worry about maintaining operating systems.In this first article, we will cover the installation process of this new appliance, based on Rocky Linux, and the use of management consoles.⚠️Reminder: We are testing a beta version here. Some features are still missing, incomplete, or might not even make it to the final version.Deployment: In this Beta version, to deploy V13 as

HotAdd Manual Testing (kb1184) only works when VM is powered off. I did this test but only works if I turn off the VM. There is no text in the article saying that the VM has to be powered down in order to attach the snapshot vmdk but I would think this is normal where the snapshot vmdks are locked thus can not be attached to another VM. What did I miss in the KB?  

HPE and Veeam jointly validated HPE Alletra Storage MP X10000 as an S3-compatible, immutable backup repository for Veeam Kasten v8. The team confirmed successful backup and restore behavior, Object Lock immutability enforcement, and post-retention cleanup. CSI-assisted local snapshot restore testing was performed with HPE CSI Driver 2.5.2. Reference Architecture (at a glance)  Kubernetes cluster running Kasten K10 v8  Repository configuration: HPE Alletra MP X10000 S3 endpoint with Object Lock (immutability) enabled  Policies: App-aware backups with defined retention and periodic export plus restore validation  CSI for local snapshot flows: HPE CSI Driver 2.5.2  What HPE Validated HPE configured the repository settings in Kasten to use the HPE Alletra MP X10000 S3 endpoint with Object Lock enabled, then ran immutable backups governed by policy-based retention. HPE performed restores from the repository and observed expected behavior end to end. After the retention window elapsed, th

I’m working with Veeam SureBackup and I have 5 Virtual Lab running on one ESXi host. Now I need to move it to a different ESXi host.Is there a way to change the assigned host for the existing Virtual Lab, or do I need to create a new Virtual Lab on the new host and reconfigure everything?

Hello. I have a request to restore files from a specific host from a tape made earlier this year (2025-01-01). And I am not sure how to determine which tape it is that I need. Here’s the problem. At the time, the VM I need files from was running on vSphere. Since then, we’ve moved to Nutanix. If I try and do a Restore, choose VMware, I don’t see the jobs from that long ago. (which I kinda expected). But what I don’t know, is how to determine which tape made on (or around) 2025-01-01 has the backups from this VM. So I can recall the tape from offsite storage and do the restore.I realize this is probably a silly question, but I’ve never had to do a restore from so far back, it’s only on tape, and not still on disk storage.I tried to do a Restore,  If I select “Files and folders”, I can scroll down to my server, and I can see the VM I want, but the backups listed only go back about 60 days. I need longer than that. Which means I’m looking in the wrong area. But I don’t know what the right

Hands-On with Scale Computing  At Veeam on, Scale hinted to me they were at the event for a reason. As we are a large user of Veeam, this excited me as there is no chance of my installing VM’s I can’t backup. Things have progressed quickly in this area since and I’ll be testing these features out in the near future. Hypervisors have been such a hot topic this past year, with lots of discussion around cost, complexity, and future direction. I have been testing all options as the future is still unknown and there are a lot of new options available. Scale demoed how you could run a highly available cluster on just a few Intel NUCs, compact, inexpensive hardware that still delivers solid performance. That got me thinking: could this work in my environment too? I wanted to see firsthand how their platform performs, and I was especially curious about their Fleet Manager Platform, which makes it easier to manage multiple clusters from a single dashboard. Fleet Manager DashboardThe Dashboard i

Most of us love and embrace SOBRs as well as hardened Linux repos for obvious reasons.Once in a while a SOBRs shifts out of balance because VBR cannot predict sizes of VMs and especially chains with changes.Therefore, for a non-immutable repo we have ways to rebalance the SOBR: KB3100: Manually moving backup files between Scale-Out Backup Repository extents (veeam.com)V12 will even bring us the conservation of space optimizations here: New in VBR v12: True per-machine backup files - vNote42This though is and will not be an easy task for the hardened Linux repo, as it will prevent files from being moved between the extents. I e.g. currently face a customers SOBR with one extent having 0% free while the others all have more than 80% free...Question is: Did you ever face this challange? How did you solve it? (Build chains from scratch? Disable immutability, reorg files, enable immutabilty?)

Question about VEEAM licensing in the context of a storage/server migration project:Old VEEAM server license:Veeam Backup & Replication v12 Build 12.3 Subscription license for Enterprise Plus 110 Instances (76 Used: 75 VM + 1 Server)The new VEEAM server is not connected to the old storage or old server.So the VM backup migration has to follow the VM server + storage migration: activate new backup for a VM when VM is migrated to new storage/servers. Whole process expected to take 2 months max.Can we license the new VEEAM server with the same subscription without deactivating the old VEEAM server? Can we do it without deploying an Enterprise Server?We will never pass above the number of currently used instances because a VM cannot be backed up on old and new at the same time.Thanks,Francis

Hi All,I’m working with Veeam Backup & Replication and need some guidance on replaying SQL Server transaction logs after restoring a database.Here’s my scenario:I’ve restored a SQL Server database using Veeam. I want to replay the transaction logs to bring the database to a specific point in time. I’m not sure about the correct steps or best practices to do this within Veeam or SQL Server.Could someone please guide me on:How to properly replay transaction logs after a restore? Whether this can be done directly through Veeam or needs to be handled manually in SQL Server? Any precautions or tips to ensure consistency and avoid data loss?  

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? 

Hi, Good evening.I am analyzing different Veeam Backup & Replication instances and I would like take all parameters for every backup job present on every VB&R instances that I am analyzing.I would like to know if is possible launch one powershell script  for retrieve these values for example: start time for every schedule job, servers involved, backup modality (full, incremental, reverse incremental, etc) aware setting if exist, etc.Thanks in advance.Best regardsRicardo

BackgroundWe have Veeam Backup & Replication (12.3.2.3617) server installed at our Head Office, where physical and virtual machines on the 192.168.ABC.0/24 network are backed up to Veeam Backup Repositories.Some physical devices are sometimes on Branch Office 192.168.XYZ.0/24 networks (where the XYZ is provided by local Branch Office DHCP servers). These devices can roam between the Head office and a number of (i.e. several) Branch Offices.The ABC is never equal to XYZ, and no two Branch Office XYZs are the same.Situation SummaryI want to be able to backup these roaming physical devices to either the Head Office Backup Repositories when the device is there, or to a local NAS in the Branch Office when it is there. For bandwidth reasons, we can’t reliably backup from Branch Office to Head Office over the VPNs during business hours. We can, however, replicate from Branch repo to Head repo over the VPNs overnight, which is when the endpoints tend to be disconnected from the LANs and wi

Hello,would you like to receive digital badges for your VMSP, VMTSP, VMCE or VMCA certification - e.g via Acclaim?I think this would be great, you can show your achievement, clients and employers can verify your certifcation online on the Badge Website.An example of an digital badge can be found here:https://www.youracclaim.com/badges/e08d2837-6862-43a1-a57e-44246ab432e3 What do you think? Good idea or nonsense?

Long time listener, first time caller!I work for a company that maintains a laboratory for a US government agency. The agency as part of our requirements keep the servers air-gapped. Will this prevent us from transitioning to Veeam 13?

 Hello Community ! Subscriptions to Veeam Universy PRO, new learning platform for professionals, are now open.Special thanks to ​@Federica !  Currently, these courses are available, with two more to be added over the course of the next year:  This type of subscription is very advantageous and economical as it allows 4 people from the same company to access the courses.For more information, please visit https://veeamuniversity-pro.com/