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I actually wanted to present AsBuiltReport.Veeam.VBR in a recap article on my blog, but in the last few days I had the opportunity to use the package again in another productive infrastructure and came to the decision that a complete article must be provided here! Because this product is simply awesome! The subtitle on AsBuiltReport "Document Your Datacenter With PowerShell" says it all, but see for yourself… A few months ago I reported on the Veeam.Diagrammer (also included in the AsBuiltReport.VBR) in my Recap #4, which was also provided by Jonathan Colon. In my opinion, Jonathan and his team have brought a masterpiece onto the market with the AsBuiltReport product.There is a large selection of modules, including for various products from Veeam, VMware, Microsoft, NetApp and others. Be sure to check out the other solutions too. The provision of the PowerShell module and how to use the tool are described in detail on the websites linked above and in GitHub. I will still show the step-

Hi,I am getting this error:Failed to prepare guest for hot backup. Error: VSSControl: -2147212522 Backup job failed. Discovery phase failed. Cannot start empty snapshot set. VSS error: VSS_E_SNAPSHOT_SET_IN_PROGRESS. Code:0x80042316.I’m aware this is a VSS related error and have been trying to work with this for a while. It happens on one of our servers every 3 or 4 days. It seems something is using the VSS service at the same time as the backup. The Veeam tech article about it so helpfully recommends ensuring your backup is not running at the same time as other backup or VSS related services. Yeah, got that!There aren’t, at least as far as I’m aware. The server does run shadow copies but this is at 7am and 12pm, backup is at 8pm. I’ve set up a scheduled task to stop the VSS service just before backups run but whatever is using it, restarts it.Any ideas about how to detect what process is using the VSS service?Thanks.

We observed our monthly back ups were deleted earlier than the 3 month retention set in the jobs . Short term retention is 35 restore pointsGFS is 3 months Repo is SOBR extents - Exagrid GFS Policy: Enabled, monthly backups kept for 3 months. Active full backup: Scheduled last monday of every month. Transform to synthetic full: Scheduled first sunday of every month. VSS settings: Application aware processing is enabled.  We need to understand why the retention policy is not working as expected. Could you please provide a checklist of items to investigate, and explain whether the current settings would result in this behavior?

For those sharped eyed you may have noticed the recent release Veeam Backup for AWS and Azure.Summary and links to the release notes below: Veeam Backup for AWS v9Veeam Backup for AWS delivers AWS-native backup and disaster recovery that’s easy, cost-effective, and secure. Quickly recover from any cloud data loss scenario — whether due to outages, accidental deletion, malware, and more — in minutes.Amazon Redshift Serverless protection — manage your Redshift Serverless protection alongside other AWS workloads you’re protecting with Veeam. Benefit from flexible policy-based scheduling and experience seamless Redshift Serverless recovery in case of a disaster.AWS Organizations support — simplify data protection by integrating directly with AWS Organizations and create scopes to easily protect multiple accounts within a policy.New Web UI design — enjoy the updated design that offers a cleaner, more modern interface with improved accessibility for a better user experience.File-level recove

I migrate Redhat VM from vmware to Hyper-v using VBR and the redhat can’t boot and stuck in dracut. Anyone know how to fix this?  

I am currently running Veeam Backup & Replication (VBR) version 12.3.0 and encountering the error "Permission denied (public key)" when trying to add a component server running Ubuntu 22 using SSH keys.Upon reviewing the logs on the Ubuntu 22 component server, I repeatedly see the following error:"Unable to negotiate with 10.0.0.8 port 64513: no matching key exchange method found. Their offer: diffie-hellman-group1-sha1 [preauth]."It appears the VBR backuo server is offering outdated or non-compliant algorithms, such as diffie-hellman-group1-sha1, hmac-sha1, and also requires the deprecated ssh-rsa for public key authentication.As a result, my SSH connection from the backup server (10.0.0.8) to the component server fails, and I see the "Permission denied (public key)" error in the VBR console.I prefer to use SSH keys for authentication, and the SSH configuration (sshd_config) on the component server includes the following settings:GSSAPI Key Exchange Algorithms: gss-group14-sha256-

Veeam newbie and first-time poster here (go easy on me!) … I am trying to attach an Ubuntu Linux 24.04 “minimal” server to a VBR13 test environment.  This server is only intended to provide backup storage for VBR. While attempting to add the host as a managed server, I get the following error: “Setting backup server certificate Error: Remote failed with message:  /opt/veeam/deployment/veeamdeploymentsvc: boost::filesystem::copy_file: Invalid cross-device link: "/tmp/VeeamUpload_20250328T170010Z/ServerCertificate", "/etc/veeam/certs/cert.p12"--tr:Failed to install server certificate” /tmp and / (where /opt and /etc reside) are separate logical volumes. Any ideas on how to troubleshoot this? VBR13 imported OVA (VMware), Console (Windows Server 2019), and Ubuntu server all on local LAN.  Managed credentials for Ubuntu added in VBR Console seem to work. Thanks in advance!

Since we added Linux Repositories to our Veeam Backup environment in my post from last week, why not add some Linux Proxies as well? I will show you how in this post. And trust me…this one will be far less painful. But adding Repositories wasn’t so bad, was it? 😏 System RequirementsThe first thing you need to do is check what OS's, hardware, and software are supported. Supported Linux OS's are exactly the same as with Repositories and are listed below:Linux Proxy RequirementsAs far as hardware goes, your server should have a minimum 2-core CPU, plus 1 core per 2 concurrent tasks (take note, this is a peformance enhancement since v12, up from 1 core per 1 concurrent task); and minimum 2GB RAM, plus 500MB per concurrent task. But for best performance and to run multiple Jobs and tasks, you should have much more Cores and RAM than the minimum. As with the Veeam Repository, look to the Veeam Best Practice Guide for actual Proxy sizing guidelines.The remaining requirements depend on the Ba

Hello,I keep receiving the following error:07.09.2023 10:22:46 :: Error: The network is at full capacityAsynchronous request operation has failed. [requestsize = 4202496] [offset = 28447543296]Failed to open storage for read access. Storage: [SRV0.0b687652-e276-468d-ae11-5752ee60952cD2023-09-06T073613_7D94.vbk].Failed to restore file from local backup. VFS link: [summary.xml].Target file: [MemFs://frontend::CDataTransferCommandSet::RestoreText_{24f4ff8c-0dfa-4529-af7b-0d2e742d953b}]. CHMOD mask: [0].Agent failed to process method {DataTransfer.RestoreText}.I create a backup copy from the backup as a secondary target and want to store it on a NAS (Synology SMB3 share).I have a second hardware server that I can back up to a second Synology with completely the same settings in an SMB3 share without any problem. The only difference is that NAS1 uses ext4 and NAS2 uses btrfs.What can I change to make things work again?

Hello Veeam Community,I am reaching out with a concern regarding our Veeam version 12.1, as we are consistently receiving malware detection alerts on our VMs. The notifications specifically indicate:Potential malware activity detected: Too many files have had their names changed since the last backup; ensure they were not encrypted by ransomware. Potential malware activity detected: *.ttt (TeslaCrypt 3.0): 40 instances. Potential malware activity detected: *..txt: 2 instances.I have conducted thorough scans on both the VM and the backup, and no malicious activity was found. Could you please provide insights or guidance on whether this is a matter of concern, and if there are additional steps I should take to address this issue?Your assistance in resolving this matter is highly appreciated. Thank you in advance for your support.

Sorry for the simple question, that’s no doubt been asked and answered before…Today we have VCC for our off-site cloud backups, and the immutability is provided by the “Insider protection” which in short means we pay for the privilege but we do not need to worry about disk space consumption over and above our actual backups.For lower cost we’re considering object storage, probably Wasabi, and we’ll want immutability there also. The thing I need to be sure of, is the disk space required. I am not sure if the copy jobs would have a specific backup mode, but with incremental, if they’re immutable, you’re previously overwritten backups are kept for longer? Disk space could be double what you have before?Thanks in advance for any insight on real world disk space requirements. Today, 27TB approx. is our VCC repo and as I say, the immutable data is retained at a fixed additional cost so we don’t know the size of that.

We would like to upgrade the Veeam 12.3.1 but we could not find the Veeam one 12.3.1 Version .Could you please suggest us, If we upgrade VBR 12.3.1  then Veeam one will allow to monitor the jobs ?

I was installing the VBR Console on my PC, and when connecting to the backup server, there was a version mismatch that the Veeam User Guide (HelpCenter) spelt out correctly. Here is the guide on how to “Install Veeam Backup Console on a Jump Server for Secure Access”, discussing all the prerequisites, installation steps, limitations and workaround.I searched through the community but could not find any post discussing the upgrade process for the latest version of VBR. Therefore, I will be discussing these steps below.Two months ago, December 3, 2024 to be precise. Veeam launched Veeam Data Platform v12.3, introducing powerful enhancements that significantly strengthen data resilience.  This release introduces advanced capabilities that strengthen enterprise data resilience and security, as discussed in this blog post. Therefore, I will not be discussing these as there are tons of articles in the community discussing the features/capabilities as referenced below. https://community.veeam

Hello everyone! I have a SQL environment where the error below started appearing after migrating between repositories: With this error it won't let me:Delete the jobs; Enable the job; Finalize the job configuration summary;Nothing about that specific job has worked again!! Background: Previously we needed to move the backup file and then map them to their target repository.Today we have the “Move backup” option: After clicking move, it tells me that it needs to move all the cluster backups:In addition to enabling Move via console, we can also choose which Job it will be linked to:That's awesome!Now let's get back to troubleshooting! I executed the sequence below to solve the problem:Clone the current job; Move the backups to the repository and cloned job; Run full backup; Continue transaction log;After that my job is working perfectly! Remembering that I am using Windows Agents within a protection group as good practices for Always ON protection

Back at the beginning of March was the Veeam Vanguard 2025 class announcement which I was part of for the 8th year in a row.  I wrote a blog about this which can be found at the URL below.  If you want more information on the program check out the V100 section on the community or feel free to reach out.Veeam Vanguard 2025 – Year 8!

Hi Community,a customer has the following requirements:some Windows Notebooks have confidential data on it, this data should be backup’d the only person who should have access to this backed data, is the owner of the specific notebook no Administrator should have access to this backup’d data My approach would be:Install VAW on the machine (not deployed/managed by VBR) configure a Backup Job directly on this system Repository can be an Object Storage or a Shared folder  a Veeam backup repository would be managed by VBR and so the Backup Data and Encryption Settings could be accessible by the Veeam Administrator set Encryption within the Job (only the owner of this device has the Key) What do you think about it? Am I’m missing something here? Would there be a better approach?

Just information for the Veeam community members.If your Scan Backup Job with Veeam Threat Hunter ends with the error "Unable to perform scan: threat signatures database is missing" and your Veeam Mount server is behind an internet HTTP proxy, wait for the next minor version of VBR, or contact support, they have a temporary workaround.Statement from supportAt the moment, signature updates do not work properly when an HTTP proxy is used - this is a confirmed issue that was found recently, and it is planned to be addressed in the next minor patch 12.3.1.

In the ongoing fight against ransomware, companies are becoming increasingly resilient. Reports from Coveware by Veeam highlight a notable decrease in ransomware payments during Q4 of 2024. This progress is credited to several key factors, such as enhanced federal regulations, successful takedowns of major cybercriminal groups, and, most importantly, organizations' improved preparedness and resilience in responding to and recovering from encryption-based malware attacks.Data protection has undergone significant changes in recent years. Conversations have moved beyond topics like inline vs. post-process deduplication to focus more on security-driven areas such as workload immutability, incident response, and malware detection. Scanning backups for malware was never intended to replace traditional endpoint or extended detection and response tools. Instead, it serves as an additional layer of detection, enhancing a defense-in-depth strategy for identifying malware. Veeam offers the most p

Hello guy,When i use veeam backup & replication 12 has error Selected server is unavailable.How do i fix it ?Thank you

The weather in Ontario has just started to consistently stay above freezing temperatures, even some days spiking up to 18 degrees (64F for my American counterparts). This has me thinking about one thing only; getting back on my motorcycle as soon as possible and enjoying the open road. However, as a new rider as of last year, I have prioritized safety and learning from others experiences. I do this by watching a Youtube Channel called "DanDanTheFireman". On this channel, Dan promotes motorcycle safety by reviewing footage of motorcycle incidents and providing after-action analysis of what went wrong, and would go have been done better. One of the methods/concepts that Dan teaches is called "MTC (Motorcycle Training Concepts) Awareness Stages". These 5 stages refer to the frame of mind a rider may be in at any given point in their ride. Later in this post I will look at these stages from a data protection mindset  White Stage (Unaware) – The rider is completely unaware of their surround

I am trying to clean up my Veeam Backup environment. Since they launched the Malware detection many of my backup sets are marked as containing files that Veeam thinks are malware. Most file extensions are not and some are files that have been created from our internal Applications Development team. I am either deleting non-relevant files or adding the extension to the Trusted Objects list.One extension that Veeam marked as Malware is *.kill . It found 2 files on our file server with this extension. Confusingly, I have not been able to find these files when I search the file server.  Can anyone point me to an application or process that could locate these files?

I have a backup copy job for OneDrive that has been running for over 60 hrs. and I am attempting to stop the job.  I stopped it in the GUI however the job still shows running with a status of “Queued” and the details show “Operation pending”.  The job status has not changed for 30-60 minutes.   I have also attempted to stop the copy job with the Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 Powershell Toolkit but I am running into syntax errors.

VDC for M365 & EntraIDJoin us on 16 April 2025 for our next Solutions Webinar, where we’ll explore the powerful capabilities of Veeam Data Cloud with a focus on Data Resiliency for Microsoft 365 and EntraID. Registration link:https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/8009225772953864800Look forward to seeing online. Craig