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 Hi Veeam Team,I'm using the Veeam Backup Plug-in for Microsoft SQL Server and trying to offload SQL full backups to Azure Blob Storage (Cool tier) via SOBR, but I don't see any offload happening.Here's my setup:- Veeam B&R: Latest Version - SQL Plug-in installed and working on SSMS.- Full backup (not Copy Only) created from the SQL plug-in.- The backup target is a SOBR that includes:   - Performance Tier: Data Domain   - Capacity Tier: Azure Blob (Cool)   - Archive Tier: Azure Archive- The SOBR has "Copy backups to object storage as soon as they are created" enabled- I verified the job runs and stores the backup on the Performance Tier (Data Domain), but **nothing appears in Azure Blob**- No entries under History > System > Capacity Tier I checked the Azure container and can't find any `.vbk` files. I also can't confirm if Veeam is sending anything to Azure

Hi guys, I have a question regarding the immutability in the data domain, I have a Job ( 7 days (short retention policy) and weekly for 7 weeks) I configured the retention lock with 6 days min and 14 day max and on Veeam side I set the immutability to 7 days What is going to happen in that case for both short retention backup and GFS backup ?

An X8M-2 Exadata system hosting an Oracle database environment has an issue with some of its database backups.During the backup of very large databases and after many hours of it running, the RMAN plugin detects a socket timeout on the connection between the client and Veeam's Backup and Replication server (VBR), on its management port 10006, and throws the following exceptionRMAN-00571: ===========================================================RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============RMAN-00571: ===========================================================RMAN-03009: failure of backup command on ch1 channel at 09/06/2024 14:25:53ORA-19506: failed to create sequential file, name="28045ae9-146a-42fd-837a-d32b1ac4a4bc/RMAN_2044054831_TPIIP_20240906_pv34bjb7_1_1.vab", parms=""ORA-27028: skgfqcre: sbtbackup returned errorORA-19511: Error received from media manager layer

Hi Community,I'm trying to implement a Veeam backup strategy for unstructured data stored on a file share (SMB or NFS). The goal is to: Back up the file share to a local repository, and Offload or copy the same data to Azure Blob Storage for offsite/cloud retention. I understand that Scale-Out Backup Repository (SOBR) is not supported for NAS backup jobs, so I’m looking for an alternative way to achieve dual-target backup for unstructured data.Has anyone here set up such a workflow?Would you recommend scripting the offload, using a post-job action, or integrating a third-party sync tool? Any best practices would be highly appreciated.

Hello Dear Community,Is it correct that with the Veeam Windows Agent free edition I can only create one job?I already have one job to USB disk attached to the computer I want to create another job to a VBR server which is icensePlease confirm even the VBR is license, the Windows Agent free edition is strictly limited to one job?Thanks,Edy

Hello,I have a question regarding how Veeam uploads backup files to Azure Blob Storage, and I’m a bit confused by the behavior. I believe the documentation might not be fully accurate or clear on this point.Here’s the scenario: I created an Azure Storage Account and set the default access tier to Hot. I also created a container inside that storage account. On the Veeam side, I configured an Azure object storage repository, and I left the "Use cool blob storage tier (may result in higher cost)" checkbox unchecked. Use cool blob storage tier  My First question is: In this case, what access tier does Veeam use when uploadin

I upgrade my VBR then when try to upgrade the component for my hyper-v i got error the destination file already exists.How we can solve this? 

Hello,i would like to know if regkey for updating automatically thread hunter is workingKey Location: HKLM\ SOFTWARE\Veeam\Veeam Threat Hunter\Value Name: VTHInternetProxyValue Type: String Value (REG_SZ)Value Data: <proxy>:<port> could you please advise how to check easily that is working update of signatures? thank you

I was trying to open a case. First, “I need support for:” is just a spinning circle. “Product Version” doesn’t have any entries. It seemed to let me go through the rest of the form, but when I hit submit, I get: Something went wrong.We're having technical issues.Stay calm - our IT team is already solving the problem.I’m not sure if there’s really a problem, or if the issue is that I’m asking for support for the community edition (which I read can happen on a best effort basis). Is this supposed to work? Thanks

Some of my virtual Linux Server are unabel to backup. The job ends with the following error: Error: The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error.Asynchronous request operation has failed. [requestsize = 327680] [offset = 2509897728]Failed to download disk '<SERVER>.vmdk'.Shared memory connection was closed.Failed to upload disk '>'Agent failed to process method {DataTransfer.SyncDisk}.and:Processing <SERVER> Error: The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error.Asynchronous request operation has failed. [requestsize = 327680] [offset = 2509897728]Failed to download disk '<SERVER>-flat.vmdk'.Shared memory connection was closed.Failed to upload disk '>'Agent failed to process method {DataTransfer.SyncDisk}.  Windows works fine. ESXi and Vcenter are on the latest version.  

I’m trying to do my first backup with the Windows Agent, but it fails several hours in.After the first failure, I ran chkdsk on the target, and no errors were found; the second attempt failed in the same way. I have 2 drives in the system: It recorded success for the first one.I tried to open a case for this, but no luck so far.7/6/2025 12:14:22 AM :: Error: Shared memory connection was closed. Failed to upload disk. Skipped arguments: [EmulatedDiskSpec>]; Agent failed to process method {DataTransfer.SyncDisk}. Exception from server: The requested operation could not be completed due to a file system limitation Failed to write data to the file [E:\VeeamBackup\greatful\Job greatful\Job greatful2025-07-05T172307.vbk].Failed to download disk '251db751-6938-460c-8b6d-c34dc909537e'  7/6/2025 10:08

Hi all,We have recently moved from VMWare to Hyper-V.We use Veeam B&R V12 and have encrypted offsite backups going to a remote backups repository via a site-to-site VPN connection to a third party. On VMWare, we used VMs as backups proxies and included only those VM addresses in the site to site VPN.When we moved to Hyper-V, because of the on-host backups proxy architecture, we needed to add the Hyper-V host IPs into the VPN profile.  On any given day, I’m happy that the remote team follow best practice in terms of security but I’m not willing to expect that to always be the case.  I’m really not comfortable having our host IPs being directly accessible from a third party location, when they have control over the remote IP scheme.Is there any way to introduce a VM as a backups proxy as per the VMWare architecture to remove the Hyper-V host from the VPN?If not, is there any reason why I can’t just block all inbound access from the third p

Hello,We currently have backup jobs configured in Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 (VBM365) with a retention period of 6 months.We would like to stop some of these backup jobs, while retaining the existing backup data for a period of one year.We have a few questions: If we change the retention policy of a job to one year and run a final backup, will the new retention period be applied to the previously backed-up data? If we disable the job after modifying the retention, will the new retention still be applied to the existing backups? Finally, could you please advise on the best way to ensure that our existing data is retained for one year, even after the backup jobs are stopped?Thank you in advance for your feedback.

Installed Windows agent on my new Windows 11 machine, then went into “Create Recovery Media”.I could not complete it without giving Veeam precise location access, which seems really...odd.And it does not appear that it actually did access my location.Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows 6.3.2.1205 - Free Edition

Hello All,I learned to install VBR on a physical standalone machine on premises without being a member of a domain which totally makes sense. However is it okay to install the VBR components of VBR on a VM in a Proxmox environment, but have the repository on a separate standalone computer. So the backup are not stored in the same environments as the production data. What are the Pros and Cons?Thanks!  

Hi,I wonder how I could relocate the PostgreSQL database simply to another drive.The installation performed the default installation on the Windows C-drive.Because we also create an SMB file share backup of a large share, the database grows quickly and we need to enlarge the C-drive often.So we would like to relocate from the default location to simply another drive (not another computer).Is this also with the configuration backup migrate method?Is there something we need to do before?Can we use the psql tool to do this easier?regardsSteven

Hi(Veeam version 12.2.0.334)I want to move the PostGreSQL database from drive C to drive D.Following my steps, the PostgreSQL service starts correctly. However, the Veeam service doesn't start.I haven't found a clear procedure for this. Do you have any idea what's missing?Here are the steps I followed:I stopped all "Veeam" services and the "postgresql-x64-15" service.I performed a robocopy.From : C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\15\dataMove to : D:\PostgreSQL\15\dataMy script :for /f "tokens=1-5 delims=:" %%d in ("%time%") do set tmptime2=%%dh%%eset tmpTimeHeureMinute=%tmptime2: =0%for /f "tokens=1-5 delims=/ " %%d in ("%date%") do set tmpDate=%%d-%%e-%%frobocopy "C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\15\data" "D:\PostgreSQL\15\data" /MIR /SEC /NP /ETA /LOG:C:\Robocopy\Log\MovePostGreSQL%tmpDate%-%tmpTimeHeureMinute%.log /R:1 /W:1No errors, all files have been copiedI renamed

Hello,I understand that Veeam supports immutability on Dell Data Domain deduplication storage appliances.Here is my current setup:Backup job targeting a ReFS repositoryBackup copy job to a primary Data Domain with immutability enabledMTree replication to a secondary Data Domain not managed by VeeamMy question is: will the data replicated to the secondary Data Domain also be immutable?The Data Domain OS version is 8.3.Thank you in advance for your insights.

Hi,When try add new Hyper-V server for backup, I receive this error :Installer    The directory name is invalid.Cannot create folder. Folder path: [\\192.168.10.3\ADMIN$\Veeam].Cannot create folder. Folder path: [\\192.168.10.3\ADMIN$\Veeam\Backup]..I have use account with full administrator privileges. RegardsJaroslav

Hi teamI need to update the AWS user in Veeam Backup and Restore v12 for a scale out repository Archive to AWS Glacier - however we no longer have access to create an “Archive Applicance” due to new security restrictions in our AWS environments.We only need to restore from this Glacier S3 archive - we are no longer writing to it.Is there a way to update the SOBR account credentials without using the wizard which forces the “Archive Appliance” setup?I think it may be failing on that step when I try to finish the wizard.ThanksAaron

We have an existing Veeam environment as a service provider and using Cloud Connect.  With this we currently host cloud backups and replication for tenants, which works fine.  We also have VMware vCloud Director integrated. We are just now implementing CDP into this same environment.  When CDP is installed into the environment, Veeam creates a new storage policy in vSphere named “Veeam CDP Replication”.  This storage policy has a requirement defined to “enable host based rules”, and the single rule that is enabled is “Replication” and Provider veecdp, which is the I/O filter name. For reasons I cannot work out as of yet, this storage policy will only see one of our datastores as compatible, and this datastore happens to be the local direct attached storage of one of the ESXi hosts in the cluster, not storage on both hosts.  All other datastores show as incompatible.  Our other datastores that I would like to use are NFS volumes on Linux hosts.  I have set

Hi all,I have a request to back up several Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines hosting SQL Server and Oracle databases using Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure (VBAz).I’m looking for a clear summary of what can and can’t be done when using VBAz for these workloads, ideally in a concise, bullet-point format.Specifically:Can application-aware processing fully protect SQL and Oracle databases?Is transaction log backup and point-in-time restore supported for SQL?Can individual databases be restored without restoring the entire VM?Are there scenarios where Veeam Agent for Windows or Linux is required instead?Any guidance, best practices, or references would be greatly appreciated.Thanks in advance!

Hi, I’d like to know if there is anything on Veeam’s roadmap regarding official support or a new plugin for direct integration with Huawei's hypervisor (FusionSphere) and storage solutions like OceanStor — especially considering the improvements in Veeam v12 and the use of the Universal Storage API?

Hello,since veeam 12.1 version there is a conflict to use VAL for backup OS of backup repository due certificate of transport service. You can use transport service for repository purpose or use it for backup of root disk.Do you use some solution related to Veeam how to backup OS of physical repositories?For example with an issue after patching how to recover it. I have use script to install redhat from scratch from cobbler, but if someone has better solution, i will be happy to share it 

Hi All,Can Veeam B&R and Veeam Cloud Connect servers access the same Repository?I am a service provider, and offer Cloud Backup Repositories to customers. To test backups for customers, i used to make a copy of the backup files to another drive on the server, import it on the Cloud Connect server, instant recover the VM, login via console and check, then stop publishing, remove from configuration and delete the copy of the files.Now i see the “import” option is grayed out.So i want to know if it is possible:to add the Repository to my Veeam B&R server, Import the backup of the VM i want to test, Test instant recovery, then remove from configuration DB on Veeam B&R only (not delete) remove the repository from the Veeam B&R server.As this been done by anyone, is there another way to test, would this cause any problems?RegardsNolzzz