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in this configuration we run daily incrementals (Monday thru Friday) to disk (Linux Repository)on Saturday Morning (just after Midnight) we start our Tape Backups job,(there is only 1 job that looks at the entire repository)  it is a GFS job that Generates synthetic full backups for Weekly / Monthly retention.  the HP Library target contains 2 LT08 Tape drive that are streaming at about 540MB/Sec.  This would probably be acceptable with the exception of one 42 TB file server (starts about 1/3 of the way through the job and grabs one tape drive for 50 Hours+.)   This causes the Overall tape Backup to run up to 76 Hours.  Spilling into the next days incremental Jobs.   I’m considering a change to the Daily’s Backups jobs  to have them Generate Weekly Full backups on the repository, and then use Tape Copy Jobs to move the Full backups to tape?  is it worth the effort?  is it Supported?

Hello. I am a single user, and I have a Windows 11 Home mid-range gaming PC with a 1 terabyte internal SSD for personal use. I presently have Veeam Agent for Windows (free edition, can do only one job at a time). It was 176 megabytes. It backs up my filesystem to an external 1 terabyte mechanical hard disk. There are no virtual machines here. I figured out how to use Agent without problems. It works like a charm. Set and forget. I want to add a second job, being a whole-volume-to-external hard disk job. But the free version of Agent can’t do two jobs for free. In fact, I wouldn’t mind a third job, which is to backup my most sensitive files more often. I would buy a license for Agent, but they’re only available in the UK in packs of 5! I downloaded Backup & Replication Community Edition, which is 17.9 gigabytes. It is said to allow up to 10 jobs at once. It is obviously much more powerful and gargantuan than Agent. I can’t figure out how to use it. I do

In the current Veeam Backup & Replication V13, a daily software updates summary is sent automatically.According to support, this can only be disabled as an “AI-powered summary” in “Veeam Intelligence Advanced mode.”Can this be disabled in all editions, please?

Hello Im very new to Veeam and i installed on a server Veeam Backup and Replication. Now i get this error message: (it never worked)  I read that the API Service needs to be started, but this is not working and an error occurs.  Also its not possible do uninstall the Veeam Software with the Error → Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item. It is the adiminstrator user. The new Update i was able to install but also after this update f

I hope this is the correct forum to ask this question. When you use VDC Vault as 3rd offsite copy for your backups, but want to write archive data for 5 year retention to Azure (same datacentre) - what costs do you incur (ingress/egress/transactional costs) when writing it off to archive storage? I have heard rumours of an archive tier coming into VDC Vault? 

Hello, I have got few vms removed from primary backup job - since these VMs are decommissioned, the copy jobs are configured with the primary job name - immediate copy , however these vms are not removed from the copy jobs even after the retention period, i can see these under backups ( disk copy ) option. Kindly advise

 Details: Files visible: Central_AD.vbm → metadata/config fileCentral_AD2026-06-01...vbk → Full backup (~73 GB ✅ normal)Central_AD2026-06-02...vib → ~2.4 GBCentral_AD2026-06-03...vib → ~2.6 GBCentral_AD2026-06-04...vib → ~2.1 GBCentral_AD2026-06-05...vib → ~2.5 GBCentral_AD2026-06-06...vib → ~2.5 GBCentral_AD2026-06-07...vib → ~1.5 GB👉 These .vib files are incremental backups (daily changes only)Hello Veeam Community,I am using Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows free for office use, with no big data exchange, and noticed that the incremental backup (.vib) files for a single machine are relatively large (around 1.5 GB to 5.6 GB per day), while the full backup is about 73 GB. Machine details: - Role: Active Directory server (Central_AD) - Backup type: Incremental (daily) I would like to understand:1. Is this increm

Hi there!I`ve been thinking a bit about this, and finally the time has come to share it with you all.After trying different apps, AI, classrooms, etc… it came to my mind,Why dont give this a shot?We are world wide, many languajes and tons of native people, with differet accents and slangs, but we do share something in common, IT and Veeam love! the idea is simple, to create different conversation groups depending on the Languaje you want to practice / learn.Im more than happy to share some of my time if somebody wants to practice some Spanish.I know we do have French, Dutch, German, English, Portuguese, Italian (😉), and many others…What do you think?Is it something you may be interested in?Summer is comming (for me) and would be a great time for sharing some experiences and give some time to others.cheers.Luis F. 

Hello,I'm hitting a wall as we do not necessarily want to configure OS credentials for each and every single VM. Sure we can pre-deploy SSH keys, play with Tag to identify the Guest OS (different types of authentication between Windows/Linux) yadda yadda, but there must be a simpler way.I have tried with a Linux VM:1. installed deployment kit, we could just predeploy it everywhere automatically2. it listens on 6160 (installer service IIRC)3. When running a job using Guest OS credentials: "Use management agent" it doesn't even talk to 6160 but claims that it's falling back to trying to connect to guest since transport service is not availableWhy isn't it just installing it using installer service? Is it possible at all to use VBR in some kind of "agent" mode (while veeam optimally takes care of updating the agents as it sees fit)?Or do we have to use it in this shady ephemeral client "access-all and install whatever I like" mode?

Dear Veeam Community,I hope you can enlighten me.We have the goal to setup endpoint backups without the use of a vpn.We installed veeam b&r & cloud gateway on a test server so far.Now whe thought we could like generate an agent for a tenant and then install that agent to endpoints of this tenant to be able to backup files of the endpoint via the cloud gateway direkcly into the configured tenant backup repository.At this point we’ve tried a lot and I doubt that this will work the way we intended.It seems like the cloud gateway is used to connect different vbr servers and save their backups in a service providers repositories. But that wouldnt solve the problem that the customer needs an own vbr and a vpn to have a connection between his endpoints and his vbr server in order to back the endpoints up to the service provider. (Endpoint → Tenants VBR Server → Cloud Gateway → Service Providers Repositories)Is

We tried accounts with local admin access to the VBR servers and VeeamOne, domain accounts with elevated privileges (plus local admin) and accounts with full admin VBR application rights and still got the permissions error. We followed this KB with no luck.  Whatever we do we get the permissions error.   https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/one/userguide/connection_to_backup_servers.html?ver=13 What rights do we need for this account to add the VBR server. Another note I was able to add the vCenter server with the vCenter Administrator account.

When I try to do this after specifying an output directory of /home/amonra I get:which doesn’t help lots.  What are you using /tmp when I explicitly gave an output directory where there’s loads of space.Now I guess I need to massively enlarge /tmp which is a problemD.

I just finished setting up our Veeam Enterprise Manager server and wanted to serve it as a website thats only accessible to our office WAN IPs. Does anyone know how one would accomplish this or if it is doable? I see the website in IIS and I do have a valid wildcard cert but support told me they could not help with design so I am unsure what the proper way to serve this webpage would be. Any assistance would be appreciated.

I am not able to replace my Veeam Backup and Replication certificate with a new .pfx. When I try to install the .pfx from the Options->Security->Install menu in the B&R Console it returns an error “Certificate’s Private Key is Empty”. I have verified I created the .pfx correctly using OpenSSL and combining the .cer with the .key. I have verified the .key is in fact a private key and not a public key. I have verified the .pfx key permissions have the appropriate read/write for the Veeam service account to access the key. The .pfx certificate is good with a valid private key. Why can’t it be installed on Veeam Backup and Replication. In order for me to upgrade Veeam B&R from version 12 to version 13 I require a certificate with the Basic Constraints extension. I now have a certificate with Basic Constraints as a .pfx but I cannot install

Hi all, I'm planning to deploy the Veeam Software Appliance and wondering — is it generally better to run it on physical hardware or as a virtual machine (e.g. on vSphere)?I know both are supported, but looking for real-world experience on pros/cons of each approach. Things like performance, reliability, and best practice recommendations would be helpful. Thanks in advance!

Ok guys, maybe I’m completely stupid.How do I upload a script file to /var/lib/veeam/scripts using console?I go to the Files tab and browse to the directory. I can edit, rename, delete files, create directories, but how do I simply upload a file!?ThanksLOL

The case product is Veeam Backup & Replication version 12.1.2.172We copied data from a main Veeam repository to a secondary offsite Veeam repository for backup copy job seeding.The previous server that held the copy jobs was replaced after it died. Copied backups are visible under Home > Backups > Disk (Imported) on repository Backup copy job Map Backup dialog shows only the repository node and no selectable imported backup chains beneath it.Regular backup job Storage > Map backup dialog shows the imported backup chains are selectable, 

Hello.I have three servers: one is EnterpriseManager, the second is VeeamBackup, and the third has the Veeam console installed. When I launch the Veeam console on the backup server, I get the error "failed to load license from backup services." I looked at the logs and see that the client versions match. I see that a connection attempt is being made, but the connection is being closed. I don't understand why. I tried TNC fqdn for the backup server - port 9392, as well as port 9396, and there were no errors..  I changed the names and IP addresses in the logs. I don't think they're needed for analysis. CODElog uploadfiles

Hi,I noticed that I have two running backup jobs since mid May and it appears they are stalled. From the same job I get success emails each day. It appears the backups job were running fine at the scheduled time. Kind of overlap.Maybe the stalled job are leftovers when I upgrade my VBR to 13. I’m not sure. I shutdown the server twice and the stalled jobs reappears. I can right click on it and press stop, but even after hours nothing happens.How can I get rid of the running instances? I enclose two screenshotsThanks,Edy

Hi All,I’m encountering an error when attempting a restore from VBR version 13.1.2064 (recently upgraded):“ResourceExhausted: Sending message exceeds the maximum configured message size.”Does anyone know if this is a known issue or bug in the newer VBR versions?

Hi community! I’m working on an architecture to implement VRO with a Clean Room. I ll be in this kind of topology :  I notice in the prerequisites, this point : “The current release of Veeam Recovery Orchestrator (v 13.0.1) requires at minimum an initial connection to the production vCenter to gather inventory and create restore plans using vSphere tags.Connection to the production VBR is optional and only required to create restore plans based on backup jobs.”The principle of a clean room is to have an envir