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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

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.

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?

I know I have heard from others about some times having issues posting within the community where you want to create a blog post or any other kind which does not work.I had this happen to me today trying to post a blog which I wrote and came across the same issue where I tried - Chrome, Edge, and Firefox to create my post but after clicking the CREATE button at the bottom it just sat there with the three dots circling.So I decided to investigate what might be causing this issue and found that it was an add-on within my browsers that is common to all of them - Night Eye.  This extension turns sites to dark mode by default, but it was causing havoc with the community site and my posting.I disabled the extension and tested posting two blogs, which worked almost instantly.  So this in turn told me that this add-on is the problem.  I have since replaced it with Dark Reader for those that like to have dark mode for all sites which does not conflict with posting.Therefore, if you are one of t

es triit folgender Fehler auf :An error occurred trying to start process`X:\Windows\system32\bmrrui.exe`with working Directory`X:\Windows\system32\bmrrui.exe`.The System cannot find the file specified.

Hi. I have a mid-range gaming PC. It has a 1 terabyte internal SSD. 510 gigs are used, of which Steam games are 230 gigs (easily redownloadable), hyberfil.sys is 13 gigs, pagefile.sys is 8 gigs and my VRChat cache is 32 gigs (easily rebuildable). Experiments have shown that this filesystem, when these items are excluded, compresses to 185 gigs and that an incremental each day comes to about 20 gigabytes.I have a 1 terabyte external disk drive that I want to leave permanently plugged in. Obviously I’d like to keep as many days’ backup as possible, while allowing for reliable backup.What settings do people suggest I use?  Keep backups for _ days, and in the Advanced tab, what should I put for: Synthetic full backup, Active full backup, Defrag and compact full backup file. For the advanced tab, I don’t quite understand them. 

I currently have a Veeam Backup & Replication v12 environment running on Windows Server. I have acquired a new server and plan to migrate my backup infrastructure to Veeam Software Appliance (VSA) v13 in order to benefit from immutability and the enhanced security features provided by the appliance.I would appreciate it if you could share your experience and best practices regarding this migration.Specifically, I am looking for guidance on the recommended procedure to migrate from Veeam Backup & Replication v12 on Windows Server to Veeam Software Appliance (VSA) v13, while preserving existing backup jobs, repositories, configuration, and historical backups.Any feedback, lessons learned, or official migration steps would be greatly appreciated.Thank you in advance for your support.

Hi, We’re about to implement Veeam Backup for Microsoft365 (VBO on premises), we already have VBR. We want this M365 backups to go to tape drives (regulatory requirements) so we were thinking on having a repository that is shared accross VBO and VBR, where we deposit VBO backup files, that is readable from VBR to do file to tape jobs. Is it possible? do you have a better architecture?

hello, using VBAR, i exported an agent backup to .vhdx.now, i need to take .vhdx and create a hyper-v virtual machine, so i can boot the image.i checked the veeam docs, this forum and the internet, but i could not find a clear answer.please advice, thanks much, david

Attempts to back up a Wallix Access Manager virtual machine recently deployed at a customer's site on HyperV result in the following error:Processing Acces Manager V5 Error: VHDx:CVhdxDisk.InitialValidation: Incorrect bitmap entry type (PAYLOAD_BLOCK_ZERO): See [MS-VHDX-v1.00-20160128] specification section 3.4.1.2. Agent failed to process method {VHDX.GetDiskInformation}.I edit the virtual disk to made a conversion from vhdx to vhdx from Hyper-v panel, but it doesn’t work.Do you have any ideas on how to fix this problem?Many thanks,Morgan

Hello Veeam Support Team / Community members I am experiencing an issue with Veeam Agent for Windows that prevents it from starting on my server.- Product: Veeam Agent for Windows (installed via .exe)- OS: Windows Server 2016- Hosting: Virtual Private Server (VPS) on Hetzner Cloud- Virtualization: Managed by Hetzner (type unknown to tenant)**Error message:**"Failed to restore client id. WMI method call failed. Object reference not set to an instance of an object."**Troubleshooting steps already performed:**1. Verified WMI service is running — no errors found2. Ran `winmgmt /resetrepository` and `winmgmt /salvagerepository` — issue persists3. Checked Win32_ComputerSystemProduct UUID via PowerShell — returns empty/null value4. Fully uninstalled Veeam Agent, cleaned registry and program folders, reinstalled — same errorThe Hetzner VPS environment does not expose hardware identifiers (UUID) to the guest OS. The WMI query `(Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_ComputerSystemProduct).UUID` returns no

 I  have 1 backup that is unable to scan, I’m getting the error : 5/27/2026 11:18:04 AM Failed : Scanning for viruses fuse: mountpoint is not empty fuse: if you are sure this is safe, use the 'nonempty' mount option Unable to mount device [/dev/loop26] with filesystem [ext4] to mount point [/run/media/Veeam.Mount.FS/9bb20087-b8ef-47b7-8fe3-ffd91c43c73b/vg_root_0-lv_root_0/storage/core]. Agent failed to process method {Mount.GenericMount}.  (fuse: mountpoint is not empty) (fuse: if you are sure this is safe, use the 'nonempty' mount option) (Unable to mount device [/dev/loop26] with filesystem [ext4] to mount point [/run/media/Veeam.Mount.FS/9bb20087-b8ef-47b7-8fe3-ffd91c43c73b/vg_root_0-lv_root_0/storage/core].) (Agent failed to process method {Mount.GenericMount}.) (0:00:09)” The backup in question is a vcenter backup which is a linux backup, the backup repositories already have the new linux mount server I made as the default mount server. I don’t have any other available option to u

Hello,Updating the windows console to 13.0.1.2067 is systematically failing with the error “Failed to update the backup console: Failed to deliver update specification to backup server.”I’am using a VSA - current build 13.0.1.2067Even when downloading directly the 13.0.1.2067 ISO, i get the same issueAnyone had the same problem and could fix it ?RgdsJIhad

Hi Community.  I am unable to resolve the above referenced issue.  This happened after an update to v13.  After the install, it worked for 2-3 days. I then started to configure my tape infrastructure and when I finished, I was prompted to reboot the server.  Now I can’t get back into the console.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

VB365 Exchange Online backup is failing for 1 mailbox out of 600. Initially received EWS ErrorMailboxStoreUnavailable (“The mailbox database is temporarily unavailable. Cannot open mailbox”). After reruns, 2 affected mailboxes succeeded but 1 mailbox continues to fail with HTTP 403 Forbidden.The O365 team confirmed the user account is disabled, the Exchange license has been removed and the mailbox was converted to a shared mailbox.Has anyone seen this behavior with recently converted shared mailboxes? Can VB365 back up an unlicensed shared mailbox or are there specific mailbox attributes that should be verified? VB0365 Exchange Online backup is failing for 1 mailbox out of 600. Initially received EWS ErrorMailboxStoreUnavailable (“The mailbox database is temporarily unavailable. Cannot open mailbox”). After reruns, 2 affected mailboxes succeeded, but 1 mailbox continues to fail with “Failed to access mailbox, the request failed with  HTTP 403 Forbidden.The O365 team confirmed the user

Hello Expert, I am getting below error during windows agent backup. Basically job was in hung stat on VBR so i stopped the job and restarted the services on agent servers. we tried to recover the backup but its failed with error "Job unexpected failed" in error log i could see below error. These nodes backup was running fine since last few years. Since this node belongs to DB we cant reboot it. Any suggestion or guidance is highly appreciated.Info (3)    [RPC] RPC confirm session has been created. Id: {7a87b}Info (3)    [RPC] Destroying RPC confirm session. Id: {7a87b}Info (3)    [RPC] RPC confirm session has been created. Id: {52fb05}Info (3)    [RPC] Destroying RPC confirm session. Id: {52fb05}Info (3)    [RPC] RPC confirm session has been created. Id: {898fab}Info (3)    [RPC] RPC confirm session has been created. Id: {0fc04}Info (3)    [RPC] Destroying RPC confirm session. Id: {0fc04}

Hi guys, Yesterday we attempted to upgrade our VBR server from V12.3.2.4465 to V13.0.2.29 but were met with the below error during the installation process -  The upgrade failed and did not allow us to retry at all. Certain options were greyed out - Checking Apps and Features, Veeam reported that it was upgraded but the app was inaccessible. -   In the end, we were forced to back out of out upgrade.Has anyone seen this before? ShaunB.

hello, i am not able to install veeam agent VeeamAgentWindows_13.0.3.1220.exe on my personal laptop running W11.25H2 and latest windows updatesplease advise and thanks muchfrom the logs[19.06.2026 09:38:18][INFO] Creating Installer Application instance.[19.06.2026 09:38:18][INFO] Enumerating OpenSSL v3.0.0 FIPS related products...[19.06.2026 09:38:18][ERROR] System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception (1605): This action is only valid for products that are currently installed.   at Veeam.Setup.MsiLibrary.VmMsiCommon.GetProductInfo(String strProductCode, String strProperty)   at Veeam.Setup.Endpoint.Core.VmRelatedProductsCollector.Collect(ProductConfiguration msi)   at Veeam.Setup.Endpoint.Core.VmRelatedProductsCollector.Collect(VmProductList`1 products)   at Veeam.Setup.Endpoint.Core.VmSuiteStateManager.Initialize()   at Veeam.Setup.Endpoint.Core.InstallerApp..ctor(StartupConfiguration startupConfiguration)   at Veeam.Setup.Endpoint.App.App_OnStartup(Object sender, StartupEventArgs e)   at Sy

Hi everyone,I updated Veeam B&R to version 12.3.2.4854 following a known security issue.After the update, all jobs no longer start automatically, even though they are correctly scheduled.Even new jobs don't start automatically.If started manually, the jobs run correctly.All Veeam services are up and running correctly.Could anyone give me some advice on how to resolve this?Thanks to anyone who can help.

Hello everyone,I updated a VBR console to v13, but after the update, I was unable to connect to the console and received the following message:“Failed to connect to the backup server: Access to the registry key ‘HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Veeam\Veeam Backup and Replication\Plugins’ is denied”I noticed that when I launch the console using “Run as administrator,” I can access it without any issues. I checked the Registry Editor, and the permissions are correct.What’s surprising is that I haven’t encountered this error with other customers who have upgraded to v13.I don’t know how to resolve this issue. Do you have any ideas, or have you also experienced this problem?Thanks in advance  Bonjour tout le monde,J'ai passé une console VBR en v13, cependant après cette mise à jour je ne parvenais plus à me connecter à la console avec le message suivant:"Failed to connect to the backup server: Access to the registry key 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Veeam\Veeam Backup and Replication\Plugins' is

Transaction logs are not able to start on DB servers, which could be the issue. Error: Failed to use DB:UpdateDirectBackupInfoIsOutOfSync in managed mode Case already been opened with Support. 

 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 incremental size normal for this type of workload?2. What factors could cause such daily change rates?3. Are there recommended optimizations to reduce incremental backup size?4. How

Hi,We have a client which has Veeam Windows Agent free edition version 13 installed. The agent back up to a local USB disk. Now the client would like to have a second job to back up to our Veeam Cloud Connect console.However we still have VSPC version 8.1.0.21999 installed and our Cloud Connect Server is at level 12.3.3I know ideally we should upgrade our infrastructure to version 13 and also the VSPC console. Question is: Is it possible to add the client with the new Windows agent to our VSPC without needing to downgrade the Window agent? Ideally I’d like to install the management agent to the client laptop and use the already installed Windows agent which converts to a license version and install the second job to back up to the data center.I don’t like the idea to upgrade the infrastructure in a rush for that client.Thanks,

They want a detailed description but truncate it at about 2.000 characters :("Provide a detailed issue description and error messages." field does not accept more than that.Usually I prepare my issues in text editor and in the end copy/paste into support portal.Now I realize only half of it made it through while I don't have my original any more.I'd expect the GUI at least to give a warning. Noone serious will type his message into some web form initially and realize the input no longer works as he’s typing live.Who can fix that? Open a case for it? ;)