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jackg3New Here
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VEEAM Instant recovery migrate to production issue

I did an instant recovery of 2 servers, these servers were from a different location and restored to a new location. Instant recovery went fine. When I migrate to production it creates a whole new server with the name -migrate. Never had this issue doin this to the same location.

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coolsport00
3 months ago
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mjkelleriiNew Here
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Long term storage for Decommissioned servers

I have a customer that would like to have a way to save decommissioned server backups for 7 years.  Their normal retention for backup jobs is 1 year.  They use Data Domain for archive storage.  When they decommission a server they would like to keep the backup for 7 years.  My thought was to create a second repository on the Data Domain, move the backups there and then remove the server from the backup job.  Would this effectively exclude those backups from retention policies?

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3 months ago
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ArinComes here often
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NAS File share backup Copy job keeps restarting ?

Source backup job that runs daily (1:00AM to 4:00AM (3hrs long)) is 1 TB in size on Mondays and then short 100GB increments (1:00AM to 1:30AM) each day for the rest of the week.My WAN link to the Offsite can copy 500GB per day.Copy backup will transfer about 500 GB on Monday but automatically stops after Source job runs again -“Failed to process NAS backup copy task Error: Stopped by job SourceX”After Source job finishes, the Copy job automatically starts again. It copies another 500 GB and gets interrupted when the Source job runs again. My question is the copy job restarting each time or resuming from where it got interrupted? Today is Saturday and it hasn’t finished copy the large Monday restore point..  

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coolsport00
3 months ago
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SupportEngineer32Not a newbie anymore
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Veeam for M365 OneNote Backup Fails with 'changed during the backup'

This is in regard to Veeam for Microsoft 365. Starting in June, Veeam for Microsoft 365 can no longer backup OneNote files (extension is .one) on the first attempt, but succeeds on the second. The reason is always "Item has been changed during the backup." I’m not seeing this with any other Microsoft Office type of document. The backup is through iLand/11:11 - I opened a ticket with their support and they're working with Veeam, however no luck so far. I can confirm the OneNote notebooks were open during the time of the backup, however this has never been an issue, where now we see it almost every day. As this is only .one files, I suspect a change was made to OneNote by Microsoft, or perhaps in the underlying database infrastructure of Microsoft 365. I'm willing to say the problem is in our tenant, but I can't imagine what change we made that would only affect .one files.Any help is appreciated. 

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3 months ago
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Steve BlairComes here often
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Windows Stand Alone Back Up Failures

I had the Windows Stand Alone version installed on my Windows 10 PC. The external hard drive it was backing up to failed. I purchased a new external hard drive and had to reinstall the Veeam software. Now backups fail indicating an application error. There are no other details and no log files are being created. Any suggestions on getting backups up and running again would be appreciated. 

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3 months ago
NemanjaJanicic
NemanjaJanicicInfluencer
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Sure Backup - Best Practices

Hello forum,What are the “Best Practices” for configuring Sure Backup?On which configuration’s I should take care, how often do you recommend to do it etc.I have a dedicated physical server, a Tower server that will be in use for this purpose.12 Core Processor, 128 GB of RAM and around 10TB of free space. Our largest VM is more than 10TB but it will be okay if SureBackup can use instant restore etcPlease advise :)

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Nico Losschaert
3 months ago
HunterLAFR
HunterLAFRVeeam Legend
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Better than Just VPN for the Home Lab

Hi everyone!I wanted to write today about a tool that happily surprised me and now has made my life easier, related to VPN and connectivity, its called TailscaleThe main slogan says :Secure remote access to shared resourcesTailscale connects your team's devices and development environments for easy access to remote resources.I’ll try to put it on my own words, in my use case, I’ve been using it at the beginning to connect to my Home Lab remotely from my house to my “Jump Station” over RDP, then, I started to use some advanced features:VPN Access to a single client VPN to Remote Site, to access other devices not capable to install the Client Proxy / Traffic router when Im out of the house or in a untrusted network Web central console for configurations, users creation and management. Easy to use client for Linux, Windows, Android, OSX, iOS, etc.The client is very neat, clean and easy to use, also the documentation is great!Im gong to post a few screenshots and will make a future entry w

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3 months ago
CarySun
CarySunVeeam Vanguard, Veeam Legend
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VB365 v7a OneDrive backup finished with warning: Failed to backup item version:xxxxxxx

Does someone have the same experience? What’s the root cause and how can it be solved?The detailed warning message is below:1/29/2024 2:23:06 PM :: Processing OneDrive Username (https://xxxx-my.sharepoint.com/personal/xxxx) finished with warning: Failed to backup item version: /xxx/xxx/Documents/Microsoft Teams Chat Files/Deposit.pdf, version: 1.0, Download request retry timeout exceeded. :: 0:31:50

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CarySun
3 months ago
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EddieZimbabweComes here often
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The VMware VM is appearing as 0 Kb when creating a job . How to do fix this in order for the VM to show the correct size.

 

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3 months ago
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AreadnzNew Here
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Two Physical Linux Servers added to inventory will not coexist

I’m trying to add two Physical Computers (Linux 20.04) into inventory to backup.Both are in the same protection group.When adding the servers and clicking “Test Now” the test is successful.After applying the Protection Group changes, I briefly see both servers, then one always disappears.It seems random as to which server remains. I see different fingerprints for each server.I’ve tried using separate protection groups, but the issue is the same. I initially added the computers as part of a backup job creation, but when adding the second server and job, the job always failed. We have uninstalled the agent from both servers, and repeated the process, always with the same result.Veeam Enterprise Plus 11All the other backed up servers are VM’s.Any suggestions? 

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MicoolPaul
3 months ago
MarkBoothman
MarkBoothmanVeeam Legend
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Windows Server Can It Continue to Evolve and Innovate?

The below are just the thoughts that I've been having over the weekend now that Server 2025 has been announced. This is a long-term view that I believe after seeing how the industry has changed especially over the last 5 - 10 years.For those of us who like myself can remember the joy that DosKey and MemMaker brought to the DOS days, given the ways Windows Server evolved from Windows NT 3.5 days, I have to wonder Can Windows Server still evolve and innovate?With today's drive towards XaaS, serverless & micro-services, the infra landscape is starting to change. The rise of DevOps etc in the past few years shows how the landscape is changing. With this in mind, I wonder just how much can Windows Server continue to innovate.I also think that given the VMware/ Brodcam debacle if Microsoft can't seize a lion's share of the virtualization market to all the up-and-coming contenders then just how long will M/S continue to try and develop more features if the market share isn't there? 

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Chris.Childerhose
3 months ago
dloseke
dlosekeVeeam Legend
posted in Discussion Boards

Issues replying to topics in the Community Hub

Curious if anyone else is running into issues when replying in the hub.  I tend to get a lot of emails to catch up on topics and open tabs for them and then come back.  However, there’s a been a lot lately where I open a tab, come back to it 15-30 minutes later, reply, but when I go to post my reply I get the below error.  Usually refreshing the tab and then posting works, but in the meantime, I’ve lost what I typed.  Curious if anyone else has been running into this issue as of late.  Seems like the past week or so I’ve been having this issue.  

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NZ_BenThomas
3 months ago
Geoff Burke
Geoff BurkeVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Discussion Boards

Nutanix ideas?

Hi Everyone,Looking for advice. I have never really looked at Nutanix, except for at one time setting up Veeam with it but relying entirely on the Veeam docs. For those Nutanix superstars out there, what recommendations/tips/tricks do you have for learning it? Free resources? Community Edition?A lot of this I could google or go to their site but I find asking folks who have walked the path before saves you a lot of time not taking turns onto dead ends!  

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leduardoserrano
3 months ago
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dario72Comes here often
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Synthetic Full Backup for 30 Day Jobs yes or no

I have a virtual Backup Server and the Repository is a SMB NAS repository and I keep the backup there for 30 days, does it make sense to activate Synthetic Full Backup in such an environment or is forever incremental better?

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Chris.Childerhose
3 months ago
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Danyang007Comes here often
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Onboarded server on VeeamOne appears greyed out and shows error "Uncaught exception thrown by method called Reflection""

Onboarded server on VeeamOne appears greyed out and shows error "Uncaught exception thrown by method called Reflection""

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dloseke
3 months ago
Geoff Burke
Geoff BurkeVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
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Another VMWARE alternative verge.io?

Hi Folks, I just saw on LinkedIn @michaelcade reply in a post about another platform that I had not heard of? Anyone using this or have any input? https://www.verge.io/

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Scott
3 months ago
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spider32Comes here often
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Backup job doing NBD instead of SAN Direct

We just moved a couple of servers to a new volume in NetApp using its new large file/volume feature. Nothing has changed on the backup job except the volume that it is backing up. The smaller server around 3TB was able to be backed up using SAN but the other server that is approximately 43 TB is being backed up using NBD. Prior to the move, both servers are doing SAN direct.  I would think that since these are both on the same volume is one has been successfully backed up using SAN the other should as well. Both servers are also in the same compute cluster and both are using the same proxies. What is causing this behavior?

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Scott
3 months ago
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yanni4iwxNot a newbie anymore
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M365 Backup - Backup of OneNote Items fails

Good morning guys,I recently noticed that some of our M365 backup jobs (various tenants and various backup VMs) always complete with warnings. We are having this problem for about a week or so. The messages always look like this:Failed to backup item: /personal/testuser_testdomain_com/Documents/Todo.one, Download request retry timeout exceeded. Has anybody of you noticed similar problems when trying to backup OneNote-Files? Thank you very much best regardsyanni4iwx

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Chris.Childerhose
3 months ago
Michael Melter
Michael MelterVeeam Legend
posted in Discussion Boards

Veeam plugins - check VBR version compatibility BEFORE upgrading - it's not as it seems

Just a heads up for those of you using Veeam plugins. Especially, if they are unmanaged by VBR, which we see quite often for the large line of business applications.Today we have plugins for SAP-HANA, SAP on Oracle (Linux only), Oracle RMAN (Windows and Linux), IBM Db2 and MS-SQL.Having done quite a few upgrades for larger customers recently, I had to learn some non-obvious peculiarities about plugin compatibility:First, you might think (as I did), that VBR always supports the plugin of the major release below the one you’re upgrading to. In fact, it says so in the help center: “Veeam Backup & Replication supports the latest two major versions of Veeam Plug-ins.” (System Requirements - Veeam Plug-ins for Enterprise Applications).The challange is in the term “major version”. To me, that would have meant the number before the decimal point. For example, 12 for 12.x, 11 for 11.x. As it turns out, this is not the case. The next sentence in the help center link above already invalidates

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marco_s
3 months ago
Stabz
StabzVeeam Legend
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[V12] Migrate MS SQL to PostgreSQL issue

Hello guys, I wanted to create a topic on how migrate from MS SQL to PostgreSQL but I’m facing to an issue.I m following the procedure : https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/vbr_config_migrate_to_postgresql.html?ver=120At the “Target Database” step I choose “Database: PostgreSQL”Then I click to connect and I obtain the following message : For me I don’t have to create a database first, right? For me Veeam should proprose to create the database like this:Did someone else have try the migration process ?

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Iams3le
3 months ago
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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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coolsport00
3 months ago
Chris.Childerhose
Chris.ChilderhoseVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Discussion Boards

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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Michael Melter
3 months ago
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Jenes hooshangiComes here often
asked in Discussion Boards

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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Geoff Burke
3 months ago
dloseke
dlosekeVeeam Legend
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Hardened repo access after upgrading to v12

I just got all of our systems upgraded to v12.  With that said, I have two clients using hardened repo’s and two different people set them up, neither of them were me, and the system I’m working on now - the engineer that set that up left the company and moved on a couple months ago.  I planned on dipping into these a while ago but never had the time and am now thrust into it.  And my linux skills are still fairly basic, maybe intermediate at best.So here’s what I have:The configuration, not that I think it matters, but is a Ubuntu VM running on a Synology NAS with a virtual disk mounted to the VM.  I upgraded from v11 to v12 but the repository became unavailable during this process.  Single-use credentials are in place and I think I’ve mostly got around the learning curve on this, but can’t quite make connections on things.There are two accounts, I’ll call them “repouser” and “admin”.  Repouser is the account that should have permissions to the repo at /mnt/veeamrepo/backups.  Admin i

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3 months ago
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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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Chris.Childerhose
3 months ago

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