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In the dialog where I can add servers there is no ption for Proxmox.I have Veeam Backup & Replication 13.0.2.29 Enterprise Plus Edition.How do I get the option for Proxmox
Hello Veeam Community!We just wrapped up our Hackathon-themed August V100 Show: One (local) UI to Rule Them All. Thank you to @jorge.delacruz, @CMF, and @JonahMay for joining, and to @Dynamic for his involvement in this show’s content 🤗Register for the Veeam Community Hackathon today! Registration is open until September 30. If you missed the show or want to rewatch, catch it below ⬇Overview:Born from the Veeam Community Hackathon 2025, Open Backup UI is a unified, self-hosted dashboard that brings VBR, Recovery Orchestrator, and Backup for Microsoft 365 together in a single modern web UI — built entirely by the community, for the community. In this special edition of The V100 Show, we go behind the scenes and dive into:How Team 1 turned a hackathon idea into a working monitoring dashboard — live demo included The tech behind it: Next.js, TypeScript, and the Veeam REST APIs, container-ready with Podman/Docker Lessons learned from building as a distributed community team From Jorge
Hello,A client have a Quantum LTO server connected by DAS cable to a Windows Server that host Veeam Backup Server. Is it possible in this case to migrate VBveeam Backup Server to a VM and keep access to the tape server ?
Hello awesome community! A huge thank you to everyone who participated, shared their votes, and helped make this challenge a success!As promised, the three most-voted articles will each receive a surprise prize. We’ll be reaching out to the winners directly with details on how to claim their prize.And now, the moment we’ve been waiting for…Congratulations to our winners! @lucasmagnum @matheusgiovanini @wolff.mateus Your contributions clearly resonated with the community — well deserved!Thank you again to everyone who took part. Keep sharing, keep contributing, and keep making the Veeam Community awesome! 💚
We have a scenario where the customer has a Tape Library currently connected to Bacula. Due to an issue with Bacula, they are carrying out a reconstruction or recovery process of the existing backups, which they intend to run from Monday to Friday.At the same time, the customer wants to incorporate Veeam Backup & Replication to perform Backup to Tape jobs during the weekends, using the same Tape Library.The question is to determine how feasible and advisable this approach is, considering that both applications would use the same library at different times, and what considerations or limitations should be taken into account to avoid conflicts in the access and control of the tape drives and media.
Hi, I’m having trouble implementing an immutable repository using Red Hat 10 with Veeam version 12.3.2. I installed it a few days ago and it was working fine, but today the Veeam server was shut down to fix an issue with an HBA card. Upon restarting, the machine failed to reconnect to the immutable repository, throwing errors such as: "Unexpected socket shutdown, Failed to rescan repository (...) Error Unexpected socket shutdown, host discovery failed," as well as warnings like: "Refresh linux host failed error: Unexpected socket shutdown, failed to rescan repository (...) Unexpected socket shutdown." I’ve run a number of tests: changing the user password to match what is configured in Veeam, disabling the Red Hat firewall, testing connections on ports 6160 and 6162 in both directions, and re-enabling port 22—yet nothing works. Oh, I almost forgot this warning that appears when rescanning the Linux host: "Unable to collect hardware info: Unexpected socket shutdown." It’s really frustra
It would be nice if you could also upgrade a Cloud Connect server from the Service Provider Console.
I have veeam backup server running in primary site with vcenter integration and backup scheduled and running. Now, I am creating another veeam backup server in DR site, and I want to the same vcenter and esxi to be integrate with DR site veeam backup server. kindly clarify the above approach is correct
Greetings. On a Veeam 12.3 install, whether there be an NFS or SBM datastore, and even while trying to hold the [CTRL] key and right-clicking on any datastore, the “Access Permissions...” menu does not show up, nor is there a ribbon icon visible for “Set Access Permissions” option.The logged in user into Veeam is a Veeam Backup Administrator. This option is visible on any other Veeam servers tested.What would be the cause for this effect? Thanks in advance.
Unprotected DB from the primary node in SQL AG. Other DBs are being backed up successfully on the same primary server.Configured to run transactional logging periodically but one large DB shows as unprotected. The problem started when the old primary node was switched over to a new server and evicted. After the eviction, it started not backing up the DB(error: Transaction logs from some databases were not backed up for the last 8 intervals).Ran image level backup (the parent job), this was successful but transaction logging still not working. However, the error now shows as (error: SQL Server transaction log backup took longer than desired log backup intervalFailed to upload SQL Server transaction log backup for DB to LogShip server: Repository agent is stoppedSQL Server transaction log backup could not be completed within 10 RPO intervals and will not be retried)This was working before and no changes to any of the Veeam servers so this error is not accurate. Confirmed application-awar
Hi everyone,Another week, another little project. 😀I’ve been spending some of my spare time practicing and experimenting with Codex again, and last weekend’s result is AgentBridge. The idea came from something that has bothered me for a while when working with Veeam Agent management in v13 VSA:VBR does a great job managing Agents once a machine is under management — but starting from V13, onboarding Windows machines in non-domain environments is no longer as straightforward as simply pushing via username and password. Linux certification also require SSH-based preparation and manual steps before they can be added cleanly.For one or two machines, that’s fine. But once you start dealing with more hosts, it quickly becomes painful.So I built AgentBridge.It’s a small open-source tool focused specifically on that initial bootstrap and enrollment process.You run AgentBridge as a single application on Windows, Linux, or macOS, open its local Web UI, connect it to your VBR 13.1 server, and us
Hi, we have a Fast LTA with 5 Silent Bricks. We plan to remove them weekly, and have one brick only in the system. We want to have weekly backups rotating offsite for one month (thatswhy 5 bricks). Whats the best strategy? Currently we have one volume and one S3 share per brick, and 5 backup copy jobs, they are running on first saturday, second saturday and so on, copy of the latest backups to the brick for the current week.But what happens if there are only 4 saturdays? I have no other scheduling options to get 5 weeks. How would you implement this? Thanks.Rene
Hello everyone!A quick update for all of you!The waiting has an end!Veeam has officially released Data Platform 13.1 along with all its core components.Don't let the "point release" label fool you—this update is packed with over 70 new features!If you want to dive into the details, you can find all the essential information and documentation right here:🛡️ Veeam Backup & Replication 13.1:• What’s New: https://www.veeam.com/veeam_backup_13_1_whats_new_wn.pdf• Release Notes: https://helpcenter.veeam.com/rn/veeam_backup_13_1_release_notes.html📊 Veeam ONE 13.1:• What’s New: https://www.veeam.com/veeam_one_13_1_whats_new_wn.pdf• Release Notes: https://helpcenter.veeam.com/rn/veeam_one_13_1_release_notes.htmlAnd for the service providers under you like me, Version 9.3 of the service provider console has also been released!☁️ Veeam Service Provider Console 9.3:• What’s New: https://www.veeam.com/veeam_console_9_3_whats_new_wn.pdf• Release Notes: https://helpcenter.veeam.com/rn/vspc_9_3_r
Hi,I created a full system backup with veeam agent for windows on a dell laptop with Win 11 installed. I boot from Veeam recovery media to a new laptop, select the backup from external usb drive, select bare metal recovery and whatever i do (Entire, volume, manual) i receive the same error message: Restore failed: The stub received bad data
So it's very simple, our backup server (infrastructure appliance) had a proxy server configured for access to Internet (in order to fetch updates etc.)Everything good in 13.0.In 13.1 it seems to be trying to use internet proxy to connect to anything http(s), even “localhost”. Goes without saying that Backup server doesn't even properly start (system services can't connect to local identity service bc that sends them to internet proxy).After defining proxy exceptions for localhost etc., connections to data movers still fail, again because those connections attempt to go through internet proxy.Case is open with support. Reverted to 13.0. Careful!
We are reviewing our Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure design to optimise Azure storage costs while maintaining best practices. Currently, our Azure VM backups are stored in GRS storage accounts, with daily backups (31-day retention), monthly backups, yearly backups in a separate GRS repository, and hourly snapshots. We also have a 125TB Veeam Data Vault subscription and use Backup Copy Jobs to maintain an immutable offsite copy of all backups. Given that we already have a secondary immutable copy in Veeam Data Vault, we are questioning whether GRS is still providing sufficient additional value to justify the extra cost compared to LRS.We are considering creating new LRS-based repositories and directing future backups there while leaving existing backups in the current GRS repositories until they age out naturally. Is this the recommended approach, and would restores continue to work from the existing GRS repositories during the transition? Also, if we retain GRS, can someone explain th
Hi everyone, During the execution of a backup in Veeam Backup & Replication version 13.0.1.29 , integrated with Prism Central pc.2024.3.1.14 the snapshot creates a recovery point, and this recovery point has a retention period of 60 days.I cannot find where this 60-day retention period is configured. I checked the backup job, but I cannot find any information or setting related to this retention. where this retention is configured? does anybody know?
Hi everyone,I’m testing the Malware Detection capabilities in Veeam Backup & Replication v12.1 (or latest) and wanted to check if this behavior is expected.Here is what I did step-by-step: Enabled Inline Entropy Analysis under the main menu's Malware Detection settings. Placed .onion links and ransomware notes inside a test VM. Enabled the Malware Detection option within the Backup Job settings as well. Executed the Backup Job. The job completed successfully without throwing any warnings, alerts, or failures.However, when I ran a SureBackup job on the same VM, it successfully flagged and detected both the onion links and the ransomware notes.Is Inline Entropy Analysis intended to catch file-based artifacts like text notes during the live backup process, or is deep artifact/file scanning primarily deferred to SureBackup/YARA scans?Any insights on how these two detection layers interact would be appreciated!Veeam version: 13.1
We manage several VBR deployments through Chef using the Veeam powershell module. In testing Veeam 13, we can’t seem to add groups with the Add-VBRUserRoleAssignment command in powershell. Veeam 12 works fine and in Veeam 13 adding local and domain users works fine, just no local or domain groups. We can add the groups manually through the Veeam BnR console just not with the powershell command. We are currently testing on Version 13.0.1.2067 however the previous versions of 13 seem to have the same problem. Has anyone else experienced this issue?
I'm doing a full VM restore in Veeam to an HPE VM Essentials host, and I want to understand how the disk provisioning gets decided. Is there a way to force the restored disks to come back as thin-provisioned, or does Veeam just inherit whatever the target VME datastore or storage policy dictates?Trying to work out whether I have any control over this at restore time or if it's entirely determined by the destination.
1. Our environment:Veeam Backup & Replication (Advanced edition), HPE MSL3040 tape library, LTO-9 SAS HH drives, Windows Server 2025. Source data lives on a NAS file share (accessed via SMB/NFS). Processed data gets written to tape via a File to Tape job.2. Our requirement — tape verification:We need our verification to cover two layers:Read-after-write — checking tape parity and block integrity as blocks are written by the tape drive head, to ensure physical tape sectors have no write errors.Content integrity — after writing, reading back the raw file structures from tape, generating a cryptographic MD5 checksum of that data, and matching it against the original source file's MD5 to confirm the two are identical.Ideally this would be something we can run as part of an automated job rather than a manual step.3. Why this matters:Once a file is archived to tape, the source copy gets deleted from the NAS share to reclaim space. That means tape becomes the only copy — there's no going
I was given a challenge, to make explain a technical process more interesting. So I came up with the gamification of an instant recovery. Concept: "Veeam Recovery Quest"Instead of presenting recovery as a technical process, turn it into a game. The Published Recovery Workflow (simplified)1. Incident declared2. Recovery target identified3. Backup validation4. Recovery method selected • Instant VM Recovery • Full VM Restore • Application Restore • File Restore5. Restore execution6. Validation testing7. Business sign-off8. Recovery completeBased on published Veeam recovery processes. https://victorious-beach-03fc63910.7.azurestaticapps.net/veeam-recovery-lab-clarity.html
How we can make exclusion for virus warning when backup m365 using VBO?
Happy Tuesday, Veeam Community!Last month brought so many fantastic articles to the Community Hub that I'm sure @safiya had a tough time narrowing them down to just six finalists—and I'm sure the community had an equally tough time choosing a winner! 😄A huge thank you to everyone who wrote, read, and voted. Your contributions are what make this community so special.And now, it's time to celebrate our Blog of the Month July 2026 winner...Congratulations, @falkob !
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