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Hi all,I’m currently running Ubuntu 20.04.6 in a Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V VM. Veeam B&R CE 12 is installed on the VM host, which is scheduled to backup the VM every so often. I’ve been struggling for quite awhile now trying to troubleshoot some instability in the VM. It appears that applications start crashing following a Veeam backup opeartion on the VM. Multiple different applications will seg fault, including systemd. In doing this troubleshooting, while watching journalctl, I see several I/O related errors scroll by during a Veeam backup:Oct 16 16:12:43 ubuntush multipathd[600]: sdc: path already removedOct 16 16:12:42 ubuntush multipathd[600]: uevent trigger errorOct 16 16:12:20 ubuntush multipath[16675]: sdc: can't store path infoOct 16 16:12:19 ubuntush kernel: sd 0:0:1:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI diskOct 16 16:12:19 ubuntush kernel: sdc: detected capacity change from 167772160 to 0Oct 16 16:12:19 ubuntush kernel: sd 0:0:1:0: [sdc] 4096-byte physical blocksOct 16 16:12:19 ubuntush

Hi All,Occasionally there are a few Windows replica VMs that come up 169.x on NIC 0 during boot. They are VCD enabled replicas. We are using VLAN direct mapping without NSX in this case. Job network mappings are set and functional. 95% of them boot as they should. The few that come up with an APIPPA address will obtain the correct IP *if* I go to the NIC config in VCD for the VM and disable NIC 0, add NIC 1 and set to static pool along with the VLAN. (connected, primary). This has been tested as repeatable across reboots once it’s been changed in VCD. I took a look at the VMX and the Veeam statements look correct as far as I can tell. PCI ID also matches. This doesn’t seem to be limited to a single VCD Org. Troubleshooting I’ve tried so far, Update VM tools to the latest.  Review device manager for ghosted adapters.  Add a second NIC (works)I’m wondering if anyone else has bumped into this and what the findings were if so. TIA

Hello,I am trying to do a bare metal recovery of a physical windows server 2019.First, I have created a recovery media from the agent backup, then mounted that .iso on the Dell Idrac9 and tried to boot form virtual CD/DVD/ISO, but it’s getting stuck at the windows logo screen.I have also tried to boot from the same iso on a VM just to test. This time, it worked, the veeam console came up and  I got all the options for restoration. But on the physical server, it’s not working.Please let me know where I am going wrong. I have attached the screenshot of the stuck screen. Thank you.

One of my customer wants to take backup there 40 Oracle Cloud VMs using Veeam. Is it possible to take the backup using Veeam? Thank youShaokat

We have facing issue with exchange server backup with AAIP. Disabling AAIP , backup will work Error :Failed to inventory guest system: Veeam Guest Agent is not startedFailed to prepare guest for hot backup. Error: Cannot connect to remote SCM database. Machine Logs:Error Veeam Guest Agent is not started (System.Exception) Error Failed to inventory guest system: Veeam Guest Agent is not started Error Failed to invoke guest call Error Cannot connect to remote SCM database. Machine. Requested rights: [0x8000000]. Error Win32 error: Access is denied. Code: 5 (System.UnauthorizedAccessException) VBR v12Proxy servers are LinuxGIP server is linux server and is not a backup proxy and credential test passedVBR server and other proxy servers are not in domain Please advise. 

Since a few weeks, my backup of my Windows disk (that used to work seamlessly) fails with:Error: Shared memory connection was closed. Failed to upload disk. Skipped arguments: [EmulatedDiskSpec>]; Agent failed to process method {DataTransfer.SyncDisk}. Exception from server: The size of the internal FIB block (58368) cannot be less then the default block size (1048576). Failed to download disk 'a289c469-b376-11ec-83e5-68545a920099'I could not find this particular error message online. How can I get it to work again?I use Veeam Agent for Windows 6.2.0.121.

I want to ask that anyone has tested that  Veeam Backup and Replication Software Version 12 Supports IBM Spectrum Scale GPFS File system ?If any one has tested it on this version, guide me please.

I have a customer who is using Veeam to migrate some VMs from one Vcenter environment to another.  He has set up two virtual proxies, one on the source Vcenter and a second on the Destination Vcenter.   Each Proxy VM has 24GB of RAM and 16 vCPU’s.   He has set Max concurrent tasks to 20 on both proxies and has a green check mark on that.   He set up a job with multiple VM’s with each VM having 2 disks.   The job is only processing a max of 4 VM’s at at time.   I am thinking it should be able to do at least 10 VM’s (10 x 2 disks = 20 concurrent tasks).   Do VM replication jobs use more concurrent tasks than a single task per disk?  

Being new to VEEAM, I might be troubleshooting problem that's trivial for VEEAM experts.On Veeam 12.2 and vCenter 8.0.3, my problem is ESXi hosts having multiple networks which causes Veeam's confusion. There's management network and there's vMotion network. The hosts in vCenter are defined as follows:The problem is, Veeam isn't able to back up a single VM. The log is full of these errors:22.10.2024 11:17:51.481] < 1436> vdl | [vddk] CnxOpenTCPSocket: Cannot connect to server 172.16.0.13:902: 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 respond[22.10.2024 11:17:51.481] < 1436> vdl | [vddk] CnxAuthdConnect: Returning false because CnxAuthdConnectTCP failed[22.10.2024 11:17:51.481] < 1436> vdl | [vddk] CnxConnectAuthd: Returning false because CnxAuthdConnect failed[22.10.2024 11:17:51.481] < 1436> vdl | [vddk] Cn

running a lab to test veeam v12.2 with storeonce VSAs. No firewalls, flat network etc. Simple stuff.Backup test works then the copy (storeonce stores copies) fails with:Backup copy was cancelled: ServerIncorrectAddressOrProtocolIts all IP based, single NIC, all options allowed for storeonce NICs too….any ideas?? Odd one if you ask me

Hello; I have a question.I installed a new version of VBR 12.2 3 days ago.I registered a tape server to use a tape device (IBM 3573-TL 1610).This device contains 15 LTO9 devices. I registered the tape server for the first time, and I did an inventory.But 2 LTO devices failed to inventory. The error message is as follows.2024-10-24 오후 5:56:37 Error    Failed to inventory tape A00091L9 Error: Failed to call RPC function 'GetDriveActivity': Access is denied. Problem with CreateFile by path \\.\Tape0.2024-10-24 오후 5:56:37 Error    Tape initialization is in progress. Backup job will continue after the initialization has been completed. Drive 1 (Server: DR-S4-VEEAM, Library: IBM 3573-TL 1610, Drive ID: Tape0)2024-10-24 오후 6:06:16 Error    Tape initialization is in progress. Backup job will continue after the initialization has been completed. Drive 2 (Server: DR-S4-VEEAM, Library: IBM 3573-TL 1610, Drive ID: Tape1) I redo inventory the 2 failed devices and now I see them as normal.What I'm c

Hello guys,I need your help to find the best way to configure longterm retention for a NAS backup.Job selection different folders (Around 10TB of datas)Target Repository : ReFSCurrent retention keep all version for the last : 30 days No Archive Secondary Repository : Dell DataDomain, same retention as sourceMy customer want a bigger retention like 6 months ​​or more.I looking the best way to do this with the less impact on the repository space. Unfortunately we can’t create GFS point for NAS BackupSolution 1 : Set the primary retention to 6 month or more, impact I will have an increment every day for the time periodSolution 2: Create a second job with the same selection but schedule it once a month, impact I ll have two full backups and I have no idea if it could work porperly.I take every idea 😁I forgot ! We currently export this backup to tape once a week too, so we could keep certain tapes as a monthly but the process to restore take a lot of time, tape management … you know 

I have a Synology NAS with about 10 TB of data, and I need to set up a real-time replication that runs every 15 minutes to my own server (no cloud solutions involved). Additionally, I need to implement a failover and failback mechanism in case the NAS goes down or needs maintenance.I want to ensure that:The data is replicated every 15 minutes. I can perform a failover to my server if the NAS is unavailable. I can easily failback to the NAS once it's back online, keeping data consistent.Can someone guide me through the best practices or the proper steps to configure this using Veeam Backup & Replication? If there are any other recommended Veeam tools or methods that fit this scenario, I'd appreciate the advice!Thanks in advance!

Hello everyone,I am looking for advice on how to manage a migration from a VMWare host to a Hyper-V host while maintaining backups continuity under Veeam B&R 12.2 with only 2 sockets licensed. BackgroundWe have decided to move from VMWare to Hyper-V.  Our environment is small and it makes solid economic sense over the lifetime of the current Windows Server edition.  The Windows Server licensing was bought before Veeam expanded support to other hypervisors, so Proxmox VE was not in scope for this move.  We have timed our migration to coincide with a hardware refresh, so we will move from a two-host ESXi setup (VMWare VSphere Essentials with Veeam managing replication to the second host) to a two-host Hyper-V setup.  Again, we intend to use Veeam to manage replication because Windows Server Hyper-V Replication is constrictive compared to the options we have under Veeam, for our risk profile.There are 18 VMs in scope for the move.  The bulk of the data is approximately 50TB of data fr

Hello,I was wondering if some of you have already try to play with immutable repository for backup job in Veeam for M365 v8.I want to try the governance mode but I not sure how to test it properly…I use a Wasabi bucket set with versioning and immuability. In Veeam I created my repository with the following parameters My backup worked properly Now I want to test the immutability. But I'm not sure to how to proceed.In wasabi console I tried to delete the bucket directly, I got the message: Okay, I decided to delete the Veeam folder and tadammm the folder has been deletedThe bucket should be empty so I relaunch my job, I though to have a new Full backup, but no. Veeam create an incremental… Strange….Now I want to try to delete some data from Veeam but except with powershell it’s not possible.I’m looking a cmdlet to delete all sites in my repository.​​​​​​​

Hi everyone,I think I’m one of the first to receive the 2024 swag package. Most likely it wasn’t intended to arrive so early that’s why I will keep it secret what I have gotten.  Anyways I wannted to say a big “thank you” for this appreciation, it makes me smile :).Thanks so much!

How can I back up our Proxmox Ve cluster environment to Cloud Connect Service Provider storage? With VMWARE and Hyper-V I can choose from the Cloud Connect repository that has been created, but when I create a backup job for Proxmox this is not available to me. Does anyone know why? Is there a solution?

Hi Guys, I wonder if I can get some help on this one. I have the Veeam One report showing VM Snapshots older than 3 days which is showing snapshots that have long been deleted. Does anyone know if there is a way to kick Veeam One into recognising that they have been deleted ?I’m thinking a SQL query to clear a table in the DB that has got stuck or something like that ?Any help greatly appreciated.ThanksPhil

Hi, I’m running Veeam B&R CE on my home server and plan to upgrade from Server 2022 to 2025 when that come out.  I would like to do a clean install of 2025 and was wondering if there’s a way to backup my install of Veeam so I can reinstall it on my upgrader Server 2025 (eg., the configurations, databases etc.  The backup repositories are on separate disks and so will be directly accessible). Thank you

Sanity check!On our Exagrid we have a single 1GB NIC and two 10GB NICs. From the beginning we configured the Linux Managed Server/Repository to point to the 1GB NIC assuming that the Veeam Datamover magically knew about and utilized the 10GB NICS for backups. Considering how slow our backups are Im wondering if our network is misconfigured and we should be pointing to the 10GB. 

We want to restore a SQL Server database within a small window, so that there is minimal downtime for transferring usage from the old database to the new database. With our previous backup software (Backup Exec), we used to restore the full backup and leave the database in recovery mode, then restore the differential backup on top of that, still leaving the database in recovery mode, then restore the transaction logs up to just before the downtime period, still leaving the database in recovery mode, so that, once the downtime commenced, we would only have to restore a couple more transaction log backups to bring the database up-to-date with the source database.We are struggling to find a similar option in Veeam. We have 2 support calls open, one attempting to see if we can use a similar method to the above, and one attempting to see if Instant Recovery is the solution to this.- for the first option, it appears that Veeam cannot append any restores to the original restore - it simply of

Hi, all. I have question about how to perform large backups on a slow network. My current infrastructure is : headquarters and the IDC where the physical servers(119 TB) are located are more than 100km apart, connected by a 1Gbps network. (This network is for business, and I don't have any plans to set up a backup network yet.) Initially, I wanted to have the backup server and repository server at headquarters so that I don't mind if the initial full backup takes a long time, but if I need to recovery backups, it will take too long. (Single largest server is over 7TB). The second way I thought of is to install the backup server and repository server in IDC and make a backup copy to HQ.However, the backup copy is also downloaded at 1Gbps, so I think the business network will be disrupted on the day of copying the full backup data. How would be the best way to configure it in my situation?Will the 'WAN Accelerator' feature help?Also, does this work on a local network? I need your advice.

Hey guys,I tried to install I/O filters on vCenter for CDP and it showing the error “ the operation is not allowed in current state” . Can anyone tell why it is showing like this and suggest what needs to be done. Please refer the screenshot for more details. 

Hi, I’m trying to understand SB mainly the networking side of things. In short I want to be able to ulitise SB as a sandbox to spin up a SQL server, however only spin up the OS of the SQL server - I then want to test attaching the databse to this SQL OS to see how it would perform in a reallife DR scenario. So I need to ensure that it is fully isolated from the existing environment but then I would like the SB VM to be accessible from an RDP session if possible but then to see network shares so we can attach the DB. Any ideas if this is possible and could someone maybe give me some information on the following as there really isn’t much learning material out there to understand this:  

Hello All, I am trying to backup a windows 10 pc and and restore it on a different machine so I have a backup PC ready to rock if something happens to the current one, the first PC has the windows files etc on a 1TB SSD but it only has 100GB used on it and I want to restore that onto the new PC but only onto a 256GB SSD so I don’t have wasted space, but in doing the back up the veeam software backs up the whole 1TB drive and when trying to install on the new 256GB SSD I get a VDS storage error and it doesn’t restore.