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Recently I installed Fedora 42 using Gnome Boxes, which serves as a lightweight graphical interface for KVM/QEMU, comparable to VMware Workstation.Since Gnome Boxes functions primarily as a front-end for KVM, it is possible to leverage virsh for automation purposes, making it particularly suitable for laboratory environments. For graphical access, users may utilize either virt-viewer or the Boxes GUI.These commands are generally compatible with other KVM-based platforms such as Proxmox, although networking configurations may vary. This setup is recommended for home lab use; it should not be deployed in production environments unless its appropriateness has been thoroughly evaluated, and you know exactly what you are doing Setting up networkFirst, set up a bridged network. This step is optional, and much of the configuration can be skipped if it is not performed. With this setup, VBR will be accessible on the network (think VBR HA for example)Use nmcli to display your current network ad

Hi,I’m using a GFS tape job to store my backup jobs. It contains 12 monthly and 5 yearly jobs. If I want to show all restore points, I only see until may 2025. All restore points before are not showed. When I’m searching my emails, I’m able to find the tape which contains the not shown backups. On the tape I will find the monthly backup, I’m searching for.I few months ago, I do not know how many, I changed the name of the tape job. He seems to work.What can I do? When I catalog the tape an error appears. “Error: Violation fo primary key constraint…...”I opened a ticket, but it still works slowly. “Case-Nr.07791336 Restore Points werden nicht angezeigt”Can anyone help?Kind regards Gunter

I wanted to solicite the community as I am working on an outline to see if there were a few topics that people feel strongly about should be something covered for v13?If you have some topics you would like to see please post them in this thread as it is easier than a DM to me and they may get lost in the shuffle.I am working on the outline this week to get it submitted for approval so will probably give this until Wednesday before I stop taking ideas.  I will have a chapter on VONE too in this book.Let me know what you want to see covered and I will do my best to get it in this book. 😁

 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, there’s plenty here to get excited about. Let’s get into it.A Fully Linux-Based Backup Server: No Windows NeededOne of the most significant changes in v13 is the move to a fully Linux-based backup server. For years, Veeam relied on Windows to power its core services. With v13, that dependency is gone. Instead, you’ll deploy the server using an OVA file, making the process faster, more secure, and platform-

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 - https://vinfrastructure.it/2025/08/veeam-backup-replication/ Why could be a wrong idea using a dedup appliance as primary repository in Veeam? - https://vinfrastructure.it/2025/08/why-could-be-wrong-idea-using-a-dedup-appliance-as-primary-repository-in-veeam/​@WorkingHardInIT - The rejuvenated push for excellence by Veeam for Hyper-V customers - https://blog.workinghardinit.work/2025/08/04/the-rejuvenated-pu

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 should be interested in knowing about & configuring if you're looking at this hypervisor to transition to away from VMware. Add Users and XCP-NG Hosts  Adding UsersAfter creating your Xen Orchestra (XO) server, the first thing you should do is configure your user base. As shared in my Part1 post, take note of the default username/password needed to login to XO after the XO installation completes. In my test environment, I only use local users, but XO does provide the ability to configure your environment for LDAP/S, e.g. using Open LDAP or Active Directory. If you want to create local users, it's as easy as navigating to Settings > Users in XO, providing a username, role (only

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 = s.company_id LEFT JOIN vsf_configuration

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 gives me the line after the last tape swap on the au

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 -Trusted Certificate for OVA deployment of VSAHopefully this helps those that are keen on testing things in your lab environments.

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 -Alarm overview showing alarms now 

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, ​@jos.maliepaard and ​@Mayhem are assisting us again. Just like previous years, teams will be working together to enhance one of the Veeam products. Just like last year, teams geographical location will determent the team they will join. New this year is that the teams will decide their own leader! And yes, this ye

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 unregister the old backint and make sure nothing was left behind. 2. Adjusting configuration filesSome Backint files needed to be renamed or edited to make room for Veeam.Examplemv hdbbackint hdbbackint.old !-->!--> 3. Setting Up VeeamOnce everything was ready, I ran the SapBackintConfigTool to register the databases in Veeam:SapBackintConfigTool --wizard During the wizard, I prov

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 to just remove those VM’s because they were 2012 R2 and are being replaced/retired anyway.  Unfortunately, I’m not super well-versed in Linux so I’m learning here.  T

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. Option C (if keeping immutability 35 d and/or Archive-after 35 d): Increase Monthly = 8 months (~240 d) to stay ≥ 180 d in Archive in all cases. Question: Which option would you recommend as best practice (co

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 – https://www.veeam.com/veeam_one_13_whats_new_wn.pdf Veeam Service Provider Console v9 – https://www.veeam.com/veeam_console_9_0_whats_new_wn.pdfThe latest release of Veeam ONE, version 13.0, is now generally available, introducing numerous new features and enhancements that promise to enhance your data protection and reporting capabilities. Whether you’re

I hope by now you all are aware of the latest v13 VSA GA release. This is available now via the download section of my.veeam.comKey features of the new Veeam Software Appliance include:Veeam’s first prebuilt, pre-hardened software appliance for rapid deployment and reduced risk Hardware-agnostic design for maximum flexibility enables customers to deploy on their preferred hardware Veeam-managed Linux OS (JeOS) as a secure foundation Delivery as bootable ISO and OVA for maximum deployment flexibility Built-in immutability and Zero Trust controls to protect against ransomware Automated patching of JeOS and backup software Modern web UI with SAML single sign-onFor further details, see the press release here:https://www.veeam.com/company/press-release/veeam-launches-first-ever-software-appliance-instant-secure-data-protection-without-hardware-lock-in.html?utm_source=bambu&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=advocacy 

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!!!

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,