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This is probably a relatively complicated one, but also not a critical issue for us as there’s sufficient workarounds. Not something I want to go through the trouble of a support ticket with at this time. Hoping a community member can make the seemingly complicated uncomplicated. Veeam 12.1. We have a number of systems in our environment that we use the Veeam Agent for Windows to back up. We are primarily on Nutanix AHV for our virtualization. The backups seem to work just fine. When doing some recent restore testing, we noticed something. The goal of the restore testing was to test restoring these agent backups to our Nutanix AHV cluster. When using “Restore entire VM to Nutanix AHV...” option, during the wizard when I get to the storage container page, it shows the computer, but with no disks. What I then found was that this “no disk” symptom also occurs if I use the “Instant Recovery to Nutanix AHV”, but it actually gives an error message of “The following machines have no disks, us

Good day team,Is there way to connect more than Veeam B&R server/software on different servers across both wan sites and/or locally? How can this be achieved?It is recommended that i install Veeam Enterprise Manager on the first server and/or site then start the  connecting. If so, is this free/does this require a license? Any other method?

I have single veeam backup policy with contains of 10 VMs.How we can get backup status for each VM to knowing the VM is backup is successful or not using powershell? 

Inspired by the post by @MicoolPaul:I wanted to ask the community, how many of you are running MS SQL corruption checks using DBCC? How often do you do it? Can you share some examples of issues that was discovered using DBCC?

Hello Veeam Community, maybe someone can Help me.I have an Virtual Machine that i need to backup. Before i do that, i need to shutdown the VM,create Backup and then Run the Vm again. I thought i can do that with Powershell script, but i run in an error.Script finished execution with exit code -1.When the Job starts, i can see that the VM shut down, then Veeam take 10 minutes to try to backup and run in the error.As i understood, Veeam should  run the PS Script before the Job and when he´s done do it again. If i Run the Script in the Powershell console, then i have no problems.Did someone have an idea? Thanks and greetings

Hi Veeam Community, Please let us know what topics you want covered in Veeam University training? 

We are running a VMWare environment.We created a new iSCSI datastore for some of our VMs due to the previous Fastclass Fibrechannel datastore having issues.All of our VMs are running well on this new datastore but every Veeam backup job fails for VMs housed on it. All backups for VMs running on other datastores are fine. The VMs show up in Veeam and are able to be added to jobs and show their file sizes, but fail when the job is run.Any ideas? I’ve pasted the typical error message below that we get, with some of our info redacted. Note that some of the files do actually back up, namely the smaller files like the .vmx, .vmxf, and .nvram, but the .vmdk file seems to be where the error occurs. 10/1/2025 3:18:59 PM :: Processing ******** Error: Failed to open VDDK disk [[***NAME OF ISCSI DATASTORE***] ***NAMEOFVM***.vmdk] ( is read-only mode - [true] )Logon attempt with parameters [VC/ESX: [***VMWare HOST IP***];Port: 443;Login: [***USERNAME***];VMX Spec: [moref=9];Snapshot mor: [9-snapsho

I'm running Server 2022 Definitely in 64 bit (Do they make 32 bit even????) and whenever I try to create a VMWare proxy or any other proxy I get the error "VMware backup proxy requires 64-bit operating system" I have no idea why, and I haven't found anywhere leading me to anyone else having this exact issue either. Any idea what might cause it?

Today we updated our cloud connect server to v12. Once that was complete we upgraded two of our managed clients running Veeam backup and replication to v12.My issue is once the Tenant side was updated to v12 I am no longer able to connect to the service provider. I believe this is the related log…[14.03.2023 16:07:00.582] <117> Error        A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respondBut this is only happening from tenants that updated to v12, all other tenants running v11 are able to connect without issue.We have a support case open, Case # 05943021

I’m running 11a on an Enterprise sub on Server 2016. Initially, I was trying to upgrade 11a (11.0.1.1261 P20230227) to the latest 12.1.2 via ISO, but later I updated to 11.0.1.1261 P20240304 just to see if the 12.1.2 upgrade would work.Everything is fine until after I select my license. At that point, I get the error that “Version string portion was too short or too long. (Parameter 'input')” and the installer crashes out. I’ve got a support case open, but it’s been a week and we aren’t making any progress. I’m wondering if anyone else has come across this? Should I just uninstall everything and then hope the existing DB will update successfully when I install 12.1.2 and point it to the DB?[ERROR] System.ArgumentException: Version string portion was too short or too long. (Parameter 'input')   at System.Version.ParseVersion(ReadOnlySpan`1 input, Boolean throwOnFailure)   at System.Version.Parse(String input)   at System.Version..ctor(String version)   at Veeam.Setup.PrereqEngine.Prereq

I'm trying to set up a job to backup my Windows 11 laptop.I'm using the Community edition of Veeam Backup and Replication 12, and I'm running the job as  admin. Everything fails, but the Rescan fails first. I’ve set up the job on my laptop as follows: The Job Mode is Server/Managed by Agent, the computer is localhost, I chose File level backup to backup a single folder as a test, but eventually it will be the entire laptop. The backup destination is a shared folder on my NAS that the backup user can fully access. What am I doing wrong? I’m backing up a simple laptop, not a VM. I see reference to an agent, but I don’t see where to download or configure it.I really do like using Veeam. It was working fine for years on the previous Windows 10 laptop, and version 6.3.1.1074 is working fine on my other Windows 10 laptop. I hope that you can help me with my issues.

I try to restore my bare metal server using veeam recovery media to VMware esxi.When i try to restore i got warning ‘OS disk in backup uses MBR disk’, then i check the created VM using EFI.I try change from EFI to BIOS then do same thing, then the recovery media say different warning. The waring now say ‘OS disk in backup use GPT disk.So why with same backup file, the warning message is different?

Hi all, I want to keep my backups for a year.Storage disks are expensive, so I can't keep this daily, and I gonna use GFS. If I want to keep 1 recovery point per week for 1 year, should I set it to “48 weeks” (4 weeks * 12 months) in the 'Configure GFS' wizard?? Does it make sense to assign a Monthly GFS flag if I assign a 48 Weekly GFS flags?I'm still not sure of the best practice on how to use GFS ! ; ( Please, any advice would be appreciated.Thank you.​

Can someone please explain the relationship between this Community Hub and what’s now called Veeam R&D Forums? The email from there said “all of your existing forum posts will be counted towards your Veeam Legends score as soon as the corresponding integrations are put in place”. How will the two accounts be linked to do that?When I first logged in here, some saved credentials were in the username and password. Same username I use for the main website, so I clicked to log in, and it worked. But I use different credentials for the forum.And if my main website credentials worked here, are they actually linked? If I change the main website password, does that change it for here? 

Hey guys, I watched this video on WAN accelerator and the instructor has told to not specify C drive as the cache location, but in helpcenter documents they have not specified anything like that. Is not setting cache location on C drive a good recommendation? Please refer the video and for more details of what I described jump to 6:27 of the video  

Hi all and thanks for reading!!I have a socket liscencing in a host called “roma6-1”. Now, i updated the esxi and the new name of the host is “roma-linux-1”. Well, i revoke the liscence of the host “roma-1” but when i run a job, it still appears with the old name “roma6-1”, i dont know why doesnt appear the new hostname “roma-linux-1” as appears in the inventory of veeam for example. I have searched in my dns, esxi conf, idrac conf, etc. and all is fine. Id should be something cached in veem, i suppouse, but i dont know where looking for.¿Can you help me please?

Hi,  I have one VBR Server 11 wherein I have created the SOBR having capacity tier of azure blob.  While creating SOBR I have defined move policy with 0 days.  My retention policy is 7 days with 1 full and 6 incremental.  My requirement is to move the data onto azure blob automatically as soon as it reaches to performance tier.  In my case data is not offloading to azure blob and veeam is taking its default counter of every 4 hours with 0bytes of data offloaded to azure. Can anybody help? Regards,Sunny 

Hello all, I have been looking in the forum but I have not found information. In my job we are using Nutanix objects, one of the  buckets shows  450 TB of usage space on Nutanix, but when I review on veeam the backup software it only shows  90 TB. Is there an issue with this space not being reclaimed?, on a  previous post, I found ReFS takes some time to free up space and show the proper amount.I hope you can shed some light on. 

Today, @NikolaPejkova sent announcements out for the 2022 Class of the Veeam Vanguard program. So happy to share I was approved for renewal. Hoping everyone else who applied was approved. Along with the Legends program, this is an amazing vCommunity program to be a part of. So thankful to be included for a 5th year.Cheers all & hope everyone has a great week!

Customer has 3TB (500GB x 6 CPU) from VUL. They need to add additional 2TB. Capacity is a lot cheaper then VUL but I don't know is this going to be stacked or is it doable to combine these licenses ?This is essentials version of the Veeam.

Final week of March is here!  We had previously committed to organizing a poll to determine the top blog of the month that is going to be featured on the homepage in the first week of April.Our selection comprises of three blogs that were featured in the weekly recap, as well as three additional blogs that were not mentioned. Please help us determine the best by voting on your favorite one by the end of the week (31st of March) .Good luck to all participants! 😊  @Michael Melter , @mkevenaar , @marcofabbri , @regnor , @Martin Weber , @wolff.mateus   please feel free to share it on your social media platforms and encourage your network to vote for you!Best, Madi  

Patched VBO to the latest version; installed windows updates recently; tested console restore and backups and both were fine. however, notcied the next day that portal is not functional.  The portal appears, you input credentials, it takes you to azure portal; you input credentials again and url chanegs to the portal again and it just stays thereLogs show14.03.2024 09:30:11.727]   55 (19664) Authorization started (grant type: OperatorAccessTokenResponse)[14.03.2024 09:30:12.260]   55 (19664)  Authorization succeeded 14.03.2024 09:30:12.261]   55 (19664) Error: IDX10634: Unable to create the SignatureProvider.Algorithm: 'RS256', SecurityKey: 55 (19664) Type: System.NotSupportedException this algo is supported in Windows already checked  We are using the same self-signed certificate when restorng using the VBO console which works fine and the backups have been runnig as well;  I have already tried a new self-signed certificate for restore app; still the same issue.  Veeam support advised

Hi! This is a notice for Veeam´s VCSP Partners. Veeam asks service provider partners using supported versions (v7 & v8) of the Veeam Service Provider Console to apply the latest cumulative patches. While no confirmed cases of CVE-2024-29212 are being exploited, the advisory emphasizes the urgency of patching the vulnerability.The following paths fix this vulnerability and do not affect any other Veeam product (e.g., Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows, Veeam ONE, etc.).· Veeam Service Provider Console 7.0.0.18899· Veeam Service Provider Console 8.0.0.19236Refer to the KB4575:https://www.veeam.com/kb4575