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CRDPNot a newbie anymore
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After upgrade to V12 and DB migration to Postgresql get error when trying to show job report

Good dayHave anyone perhaps had this problem that I am experiencing now post upgrade to V12.1 and migrating DB to PostgreSQL 15.5-1.DB migration showed all tasks successful.When trying to open any job report it gives this error“invalid XML content” Thanks

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Chris.Childerhose
Chris.ChilderhoseVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
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exFAT Filesystem may corrupt Veeam backup files

Hopefully no one uses exFAT but if you do check out this KB referencing corrupted files that are possible.KB4233: exFAT Filesystem may corrupt Veeam backup files

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Jenes hooshangiComes here often
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Document backup jobs

I want to document all jobs.Is there a solution for this?First, how can these data be obtained, and secondly, is there a ready-made Excell template for this?I want to document all the jobs and if there is a solution that also documents the entire veeam backup structure, that would be great.Please provide any suggestions you have.

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HamBurgerComes here often
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Gateway Server deployment

Hi everyone, I am planning to add new SOBR for existing environment (x2 Hyper-V host actually) connecting to the tape library with simple deployment scenario. While we plan to add a new HPE StoreOnce to the infrastructure, is it possible to install the gateway server on the host?Or should it be installed on the backup server?       

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dario72Comes here often
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Veeam with vSan How many Proxy

I have a Vsan Cluster with 3 ESXi (25Gb Network) and a vm with Veeam 12 and a physical Windows Repository connected with 20 Gb20 VMs must be backup , 3TB ca I am planning how much proxy I need, I am not sure if the proxy installed in the VM where B&R is installed is enough or should I install an additional proxy per Esxi?      

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Rick Vanover
Rick VanoverRICKATRON
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Backup copies, YARA and Pac-Man
Backup copies, YARA and Pac-ManVeeam Community Recap #150

This week we have a slight switcheroo! @Madi.Cristil is taking some well-deserved time off so Rickatron and @safiya are up with the recap, and this is episode #150! Watch this week’s episode here:The Linksvia @BelongsinaMuseum via @leduardoserrano (2 from Luis this week!) Special Department NewsProduct Update: Veeam KB 4510 is updated with the cumulative patch 1 for V12.1: https://www.veeam.com/kb4510via @allynz via @MarcoLuvisi Who’s NewWe are happy to welcome +90 new members into the Veeam Community! The coolest usernames are @Never Give Up, @Bumsy, @bugbunty785 and @sitsilencer!And Alfred’s pick this week is @BelongsinaMuseum! Welcome everyone and have a great weekend. 

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dloseke
dlosekeVeeam Vanguard
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Immutability flag for copy to S3-compatible (Wasabi) is much longer than what is set in the Repository

I’ve come across this twice now, and I’m curious if any of you have seen it.  I have a relatively new client that we setup backups for with a copy job to run to a Wasabi bucket.  I have set the repo for 30 days of immutability.  I’m having issues with one of the VM’s being backed up and decided to just blow it away.  Backups are fine, but the copy job has failed on this VM for a couple of months (the newest restore point is from the end of November) due to an odd error when Application Aware Processing is enabled.  Since AAP isn’t really needed for this VM, my plan was to  work around this error and move this VM to a separate backup and copy job where AAP is not enabled but moving to the new job failed.  So I tried to delete the data, and that also failed.  I get the error that the data is immutable until October.  What am I missing here?   

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dloseke
dlosekeVeeam Vanguard
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Service Provider Console Management Agent Access to VBR with MFA Enabled

I have a newer client that I recently deployed VBR for that is managed by our Service Provider Console.  At some point in time I stopped getting reports from VBR in the SPC.  The Management Agent was talking to the SPC, but I was getting no information from VBR.  After opening a case with support and uploading logs (kudo’s to the Veeam team for making it so easy to create cases and upload logs within the SPC), support noted the below error found in the logs. 2024-01-22 22:00:19.9095 [ERROR ] 5684 [__21] BackupServerDiscovery: Exception thrown in method CollectBackupServerFromWMISafe from BackupServerDiscovery Exception: System.Management.ManagementException: Access denied2024-01-22 22:00:19.9095 [ERROR ] 5684 [__21] BackupServerDiscovery: Exception thrown in method CollectBackupServerFromWMISafe from BackupServerDiscovery Exception: System.Management.ManagementException: Access denied Support listed two possible fixes, the first of which is making sure the Service Provider entry is set

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BelongsinaMuseumComes here often
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Duplicating a full backup (not a backup copy)

Hi everyone,We’re using Veeam B&R 11 standard edition.  We are a small museum with a large repository of information of digitised versions of the collections - essentially a file server with multiple disks.  We had an issue whereby our largest server had to be reimported to VSphere and was picked up as a new VM by Veeam.  I’m looking for options to minimise WAN usage to seed our offsite backups of the large VM.Can I copy a new full backup of VM to a second site, scan the second site repo and start a parallel backup strategy there?  Essentially, the same full backup would be the first backup in two parallel backup trees.  The backup source is a single VM of approximately 40TB, so I would rather not run a full backup across our VPN.  I’m worried that Veeam will not like two repositories starting with the same data, if they ultimately diverge.Why would I not just run a copy job instead of backing up the same data twice?  The two sites have vastly different retention strategies, one be

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marcel123456Not a newbie anymore
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Restore job failed Error: Cannot complete file creation operation.

Hey guysWe’re doing some VeeamZIPs and directly restore VMs them to a backup-NAS which is added in Veeam via SMB. Since beginning of the year (or even before. The last restore was made on the 30th November 2023) we’re not able to do this operation anymore. We’re getting the following error message: “Restore job failed Error: Cannot complete file creation operation.” The logs show the following: [05.01.2024 11:16:02.757] <01> Error Restore job has been failed[05.01.2024 11:16:02.757] <01> Error Make datastore directory failed, datacenter ref = datacenter-2, directory name = "[backupnas] backup20240103-xxx" (System.Exception)[05.01.2024 11:16:02.757] <01> Error bei Veeam.Backup.ViSoap.CSoapConnection.CreateDatastoreDirectory(String datacenterRef, String dirName)[05.01.2024 11:16:02.757] <01> Error bei Veeam.Backup.ViSoap.CSoapDatastore25.CreateDirectory(CSoapDatastoreDirectory parent, String relativePath)[05.01.2024 11:16:02.757]

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ArinComes here often
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Are Folder exclusions in NAS file share backup jobs case sensitive?

Are Folder exclusions in NAS file share backup jobs case sensitive?

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ArinComes here often
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Restore to offsite server

So I am attempting to restore files from offsite backup copy to a ServerB at the offsite.From the VBR console I choose to guest files restore from the backup Copy. Then I entered \\ServerB\x$ as the target location. However the restore is happening over the WAN. Any ideas?

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leduardoserrano
leduardoserranoOn the path to Greatness
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Dozens of VMware perpetual solutions/licenses are end-of-sale

Hi team! Just announced today. I believe you already know about these changes, but the amount of changes and at once is impressive. VMware End of Availability of perpetual licensing and associated products (96168)  VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus VMware vSphere+ VMware vSphere Standard (excluding subscription) VMware vSphere ROBO VMware vSphere Scale Out VMware vSphere Desktop VMware vSphere Acceleration Kits VMware vSphere Essentials Kit VMware vSphere Essentials Plus Kit (excluding new subscription offering) VMware vSphere Starter/Foundation VMware vSphere with Operations Management VMware vSphere Basic VMware vSphere Advanced VMware vSphere Storage Appliance VMware vSphere Hypervisor VMware Cloud Foundation (excluding new VCF subscription offering) VMware Cloud Foundation for VDI VMware Cloud Foundation for ROBO VMware SDDC Manager VMware vCenter Stan

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actualcNot a newbie anymore
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Failed to modify guest OS settings hyper-v

Hello,I'm posting for the first time.Here is my production configuration: Windows server 2019 on an Intel 10900KF platform in Raid 1.I create my image with Veeam Agent for windows (6.0.2.1090)on a USB HDD. everything works fineThen I want to remount my Veeam backup on a test server.Installation on a test server Intel 12100 platform in non-raid, Veeam B&R 12.1.0.21.31 installation, Hyper-v role installation.When I want to do an instant recovery of my Veeam backup,here's the error message :Failed to modify guest OS settingsA 'System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException' has been thrownhere's the screenshotThanks in advance for your help

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wolff.mateus
wolff.mateusVeeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
Monitoring Veeam Backup Server with Checkmk

Frequently I'm ask in how to monitor backup jobs of Veeam externally Veeam servers.I know that we can do this easy with Veeam One. But here I’m going to show you a solution to monitor backup jobs having only a Veeam Backup Server (without VEM or VONE).So, the application I’m talking about is Checkmk. Checkmk is a monitoring software usually used on NOC (Network Operations Center) environments. However, this is an easy tool to deploy and very light to hav in our backup environment. VersionsCheckmk has a free and commercial version:Checkmk Raw Edition (CRE) – Free and 100% Open Source. It even incorporates Nagios into its core. You can use it to monitor entire environments. Support for this release is available through the Checkmk community forum.Checkmk Enterprise Free Edition (CFE) – version already based on the standard edition, with Checkmk Micro Core (CMC), which means that it is no longer based on Nagios and is aimed at small IT environments with a single site and up to 25 monitore

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dloseke
dlosekeVeeam Vanguard
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Service Providers, are you placing any devices on premise?

Hey all, my company is using Veeam mostly for our medium-sized clients, but some of our smaller clients with only a few VM’s generally are using something else.  A couple with old Datto Siris or Alto appliances, quite a few with Barracuda backup appliances, and even an Intronis client.  Most of these clients are paying for more of a BaaS service on a monthly or yearly agreement, though I think a couple actually own their the Barracuda appliance that we sold them in the past.With that said, we’re pretty invested with Datto despite the Kaseya attachment, and they caught the ear of my boss about leasing out Datto Siris 4 appliances to replace all of those non-Veeam clients.  That said, I’d rather move them over the the Service Provider side of things and get everything moved into the Veeam house.Here’s what I was thinking.  We historically don’t like hosting customer data, and so somewhat in parallel with my developing a VB365 solution for our clients (as most are using Barracuda Cloud-to

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Jenes hooshangiComes here often
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Enterprise Manager Server error No such host is known

Hello to allI removed the veeam B&R server from the domain, the enterprise manager server was also installed on the same server, and now I have this error in the enterprise manager.Thank you for your guidance.I also changed the iis settings but it didn't work 

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amilazzoNot a newbie anymore
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Veeam Backup for AWS - Can't select a repository for Configuration Backups

I’ve created a repository per the instructions from the documentation, but cannot select it for scheduled Configuration Backups. It’s displayed in the Repository list. Encryption, and immutability is enabled.Is there something else missing?

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phil123456789Not a newbie anymore
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PKi Cert has expired on Vcenter Server and Veeam can't connect to backup VMs.

Hi, Our PKI cert has expired on our VCS server, and as a result the backups of the VMs are failing as Veeam can’t connect to the VCS.  Its going to take us a few days to get another cert generated and installed on the VCS - but is there any workaround we can do in the meantime to get the Veeam Backup and Replication software to backup our VMs?  I’m assuming not really - as that’s the point of certificates!Any suggestions most welcome.Thanks... 

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TippersComes here often
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File explorer: Access is denied

In B&R console I want to browse the contents of a Linux repository.  I go to Files and expand the repository but a message appears “Access is denied.”The backup and replication jobs which are assigned to the repo work fine and I can rescan the repo so I know the stored credentials are working but I can’t browse the files.Is it a limitation of the Community edition?

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bulganNew Here
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Implementation of veeam master slave

There are two cores in the network.It is necessary to implement veeam availability in case of failure of one of them.The Windows cluster is not suitable. Because you cannot implement fault-tolerant shared storage.Option 1Two veeam servers, one is on, the other is off. If the master server fails, turn on the slave server and restore the necessary virtual machines. (it is unclear if the veeam subordinate server will see the backup storage)Option 2is mysql replication.There will be no copy jobs in the first veeam. It will only be used to restore virtual machines.What problems might arise?How can this be implemented in another way?

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leduardoserrano
leduardoserranoOn the path to Greatness
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Demo: simulation of Ransomware remediation with Veeam ONE. Special participation: Teddy Bear!

  Hi! This demonstration shows how to use IO Meter, PowerShell scripts, Veeam Backup & Replication, and the Veeam One alarm remediation action to simulate a Ransomware attack response!The Secure Restore operation is performed with Veeam Instant Recovery associated with Windows Defender antivirus scan, and the backup files are stored in an immutable Linux Hardened Repository!The clickbait is a Teddy Bear icon 😃This is a Hyper-V test environment.Below we have the PowerShell script for the compromised VM. It just changes the wallpaper and blocks the keyboard and mouse input for some time.It is necessary to have the IO Meter running in the background. Change the wallpaper name per your desired simulation.Start-Sleep -Seconds 5#Change Desktop$MyWallpaper="C:\skull-virus-malware.png"$code = @' using System.Runtime.InteropServices; namespace Win32{ public class Wallpaper{ [DllImport("user32.dll", CharSet=CharSet.Auto)] static extern int SystemParametersInfo (int

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Moustafa_Hindawi
Moustafa_HindawiInfluencer
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SureBackup Lite mode for AHV

Hello everyone,Regarding v12.1 new feature Surebackup lite mode, does it support AHV?

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CWKeithPNew Here
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I wrote a C# tool so you can move VBO (365) config to a new host, or rename the host

The main issue is the config.edb file has 3-4 values that are hard-coded with the VBO proxy settings, so if you move to a new server, VBO backups will start to fail. Thus, the official recommendation is to move the data, but manually re-create all orgs and backup jobs. That HURTS. Same goes with the "failed to retrieve licenses for X users" error if you rename the server, or change domain.This is tested in production over the last few weeks, fully open source, Veeam support know about it and were glad it resolved a bug for us (upgrading from V5 to V7 triggered an issue to do with the hostname).Repo: https://github.com/platima/veeam-host-rename-or-move/Reddit Thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Veeam/comments/19cmkrr/i_wrote_a_c_tool_so_you_can_move_vbo_365_config/Screenshot:Enjoy!

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Cragdoo
CragdooVeeam Vanguard
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VBO repo migration

Can anyone point me in the direction of a best practices/recommended process for doing maintenance on VBO repos, for example doing hardware maintenance on the VBO repo server, and want to move the data to another storage location, either temporarily or permanent migration?Seem to be running into a lot of Jetdb errors, after we tried to figure out the best process

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