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I have recently seen many people posting about issues with jobs, etc. and then some of the error messages they are seeing.  If you want to analyze the Veeam logs to see if you can troubleshoot the issue yourself you can follow the attached PPT file which is a Log Diving session from 2017.  It is a great resource and shows you where and what to look for in the logs with examples too.Log Files are located here - C:\ProgramData\VeeamThis is where you will find the logs for the respective jobs.  Like backup jobs are located in the “Backup” folder then broken down in to subfolders by job name.Hopefully this helps people when it comes to troubleshooting job failures as I have used this PPT file many times to help me prior to calling Support. 

Hi all…If I have 3 sites each have individual VBR serve, Veeam console and own repo.They are managed by 3 different departments staff.And there is a DR site only has 1 physical server and repo , which save some critical VMs for the 3 production sites.To increase the SLA, can I deploy CDP and VDRO for this 3-to-1 environment?First thing is need to virtualize the server on DR site?   

Adding hyper v host fails with "invalid credentials" or "spedified host is not a hyper v server"

 I have a question about backup job configuration when using S3 repository with immuability enabled.In the job retention if I set only 14 days without GFS, it means Forever incremental mode for me.If I click next I don’t have any error or warning to enable GFS like I could have with a Hardened repository.I remember on object, we only copy new blocks not files. Once immutability expires, unused/expires blocks are just deleted, but it’s not really clear for me.More intrigant Veeam is in capacity to “Merge” the files … and apply the retention ...The immutability works if I tried to delete the files

Hello,have a Veeam B&R   Kasten / K-10       phases: - attempt: 3 endTime: 2024-10-11T05:27:03Z errors: - cause: '{"cause":{"cause":{"cause":{"cause":{"file":"github.com/kanisterio/kanister@v0.0.0-20241002234128-99368fcea567/pkg/kube/snapshot/snapshot_alpha.go","function":"github.com/kanisterio/kanister/pkg/kube/snapshot.GetSnapshotClassbyAnnotation","linenumber":489,"message":"Failed to find any VolumeSnapshotClass in the c

Hi,using OpenShift 4.16.14 with Veeam Kasten free 7.0.9.Need to connect to Veeam BR 12.2.0.334But if I fill out the form add Profile at Kasten DashboardSettings → Kasten DR Setup got no saved profile nothing happen when click    What did

My organization uses VMWare ESXi to manage all of our virtual machines.  We do not have the correct license to be able to do simple “copy” backups of our virtual machines (according to the error messages that I get when I attempt those).  We are having to run backups from the VEEAM agents, but, the last time that I had an issue and needed to restore, it was a pain in the a$$.  I’m assuming that this is because of the way that we are using the agents, but I really don’t know any better way.Would it be possible for someone to point me to or help me out with a step-by-step for the best practices for backing up our virtual machines?  How should my VM hard drives be set up to allow for the quickest possible backup/restore?

I noticed a problem with the console performance in the new version of Veeam Backup & Replication for VMware vSphere 12.2 when the PostgreSQL database is located on an external server.The essence of the problem: when switching to the list of backup jobs, the console wait for jobs for several seconds (about 5-6 seconds). Everything else works fine. However, the slowness of the console interface is annoying.In version 12.1, there is no such delay - neither when using an external PostgreSQL server, nor when using a local PostgreSQL server.In version 12.2, there is a delay when using PostgreSQL on an external server. When using a local PostgreSQL server, there is no delay.The problem is not in the settings and characteristics of the external PostgreSQL server, since I migrated the Veeam Backup v12.2 database to the server where Veeam Backup v12.1 is running (to a new database) - the situation was repeated.Installed Veeam Backup on Windows 2022 Server. T

Hi, i’ve the error in title when try to restore file from a windows machine.The restore of complete machine is ok but the session of browse file go down with error.Here is the log of the operation.Please, i need help.Thank’s 

Hi there,currently i’m migrating a customers Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 from local disk Storage to S3 (Wasabi). Doing this via the Script method from KB3067: How to Migrate Backup Data Between Repositories for Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 and this works for me pretty well on another customers environment in the past. On the actual customers environment, i get Warnings regarding the Users Achive Mailbox:09.10.2024 07:08:36 :: Moving archive mailbox USERNAME completed with warning: archive mailbox USERNAME is not found in repositoryI have the info from my colleague, that this customer has no active archive function on many users (not all), so the warning is for sure correct.But as it’s currently in migration phase and not yet completed (will take a few days), i’m not sure if this will end up with problems after the migration

How should data backups be structured in order to make most efficient use of Veeam Data Platform VUL licenses when backing up NAS File Shares? Suppose I have a NetApp filer with 10 volumes each with 300GB, would creating separate jobs for each volume consume 0 licenses because the data is rounded down to 0 for each one? Would it be different if all volumes were backed up in the same job? Does the total data get summed together anyways no matter the job distribution because the NetApp is added as a NAS Filer instead of each share being manually added?The docs here https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/nas_licensing.html?ver=120 don’t seem to clearly outline this case and how the licensing works for this.

So i been running V community for a year now backing up some vms and i just got a license to do immutable backups of a BareMetal server to a linux hardened repo. So i setup the repo with 7 days immutability and the backup with 7 days retention period. Setup Synthetic Full backups on Fridays and backup is running everyday.on the first Friday it did a full backup of server (like 1tb or so) then every day i guess its incremental since its only a few gigs. Now came this Friday and was a few gigs too. Wasn't supposed to delete it and create a whole full backup?Should i change retention from 7 days (to match repo immutability period) to keep 1-2 restore points instead? very confused  on this scenario on what im supposed to be seeing on the logs. What's the best course of action for this type of backup? 

Hi Guys,Amidst all my reading, prior experience with earlier versions of Veeam, Buexec, other related apps, trials and errors, its never too much or late to learn in the field of IT, especially from the experts, “Knowledge is never constant, only dynamic”. It has been a while, was so busy, Veeam is working like a charm. Note case below for a HYPER-V environment:Veeam BR 12 is at location A running fine Same BR 12 is at B doing nothing lol Location A is at HQ, fast bandwidth Location A & B are linked via WAN over “not so fast connection” Cloud backup was/is already used as offsite DR where important VMs/files are being backed up ( i came to this place and observed this)How can i use/setup Location B as a DR site/failover/redundancy?Can i also use location B to mirror exactly what is in Location A, if so, what is the process/best method?Your EXPERT GUIDANCE would be greatly appreciated

Hi all, my first entry here :-)I use the Community Edition of VBR for backing up two proxmox-vms. Installation was no problem and worker was configured. If I backup linux-vms there is no problem. But if I try to backup two windows server 2022 vms (image for hpe proliant server) i get the error: Guid should contain 32 digits with 4 dashes (xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx). If i check the guid in windows with power shell the guid seems to be good. I tried serveral things but it is not possible to do a backup.Anybody a solution or the same problem? Daniel

Does anyone have any experience migrating their virtualization platform from VMware to Nutanix that used Veeam both before and after? Are there any best practices or lessons learned that others can take advantage? As the migration of our vms is likely to take several days/weeks, we’re likely to want/need to use Veeam across both environments. Many thanks for any insight this community can offer.

We have a large windows fileserver with many disks/shares and have been backing them up with an agent with separate jobs for each drive selecting the Volume. Im wondering that since its a VM should I have another VM job that backups the VM but just the C drive. Since we are currently only backing up volumes I wonder if we could actually recover the entire server.

I’m trying to set up the Veeam SQL Agent and have it up and running on my SQL server, but when I try to backup a DB I get the following error:[ERROR]  Failed to backup database model. Error:  Error code: 0x80070005 Access denied. You must be logged in as a Windows administrator to create a virtual device. Failed to start VDI backup.I’m logged in as a domain administrator on the SQL server and am running the backup using a domain admin credential as well.  So I’m not sure why this is failing.

I am working with a customer to move to Veeam but has to be NetApp targets. I know eseries doesnt dedup etc but maybe FAS storage.If anyone has good experiences please let me know. Need a good level of dedup and maybe writing direct to the storage not via a server. FAS supports iscsi, CIFS etc….thanks

Hey guys I have problem with new version of vm when I am running job to get data power store and thought the 10/25 that connected to datastore ,the problem each time it's 5 minutes for running job. 

Hi everyone,I’m looking to explore how to effectively integrate Veeam with High-Performance Computing (HPC) environments to enhance data protection Here are some strategies for integrating Veeam with HPC for better data protection:Backup Scheduling: Utilize Veeam’s scheduling features to back up HPC workloads during off-peak hours to minimize impact on performance. Incremental Backups: Take advantage of Veeam's incremental backup capabilities to reduce storage requirements and backup windows, which is crucial for large HPC datasets. Data Reduction Techniques: Use Veeam’s built-in deduplication and compression features to optimize storage usage when backing up large HPC environments. Snapshot Integration: Integrate Veeam with storage snapshots to quickly capture the state of HPC workloads without significant downtime. Regular Testing:

Hi all,I’ve been using Veeam backup for 365 for a while now and every now and again I get the error ‘the specified database cannot be opened on this OS version when I try to open the adb backup in the Sharepoint explorer tool.  I seem to remember I did the backup on Windows 10, and have tried to restore on Windows 10 and also Windows 11 but I still get the same error. The error is not particularly helpful and doesn’t actually specify what the issue is.  Does anyone know what this issue is or how I can possibly resolve it? As it stands I’m not able to open the backups which is causing a big headache.  Thanks Dan

I hope someone can help me. I manage my B&R server by installing the console on my Win 10 workstation. That’s all fine, it takes the B&R Console some seconds to come up, but it does. But on the desktop of the actual B&R server itself, if I try and bring the console app up, it will take forever  - at the moment, I’ve been waiting 20 minutes. The console application came up on my workstation in a few seconds, but still hasn’t come up on the desktop of the server.And I’m not sure why. It can’t be a firewall issue, it will eventually come up (or used to - it’s been a long time since I actually tried to use the console app directly on the server). I see no error messages, just the warning that it’s taking longer than expected to happen. The server itself is running fine - all jobs are executing as expected. It’s just the console app not coming up on the desktop of the server. I have no problems using the console my my workstation, I can create jobs, run j

Hello, Thanks, cannot install VBR 12.1The server was running VBR 11.x, ran great for years, thanks Veeam! When I tried to upgrade to latest VBR, as downloaded from website The upgrade failed, complained about Veeam Agent for Linux. I tried to install again, and now there was no option to upgrade, just to install. So I clicked install and got error message I did a manual uninstall as perhttps://forums.veeam.com/veeam-backup-replication-f2/how-to-uninstall-v12-community-edition-completely-t89675.html

We have enabled malware scanning,  and We got a warning that some of the servers has some potential malware detection.Specifically "Onion Links". I enabled inline entropyI took a look a the full logs of the scan on mount server C:\ProgramData\Veeam\Backup\Malware_Detection_Logs , and only the logs for windows machine appear here,  however, as confirmed by Veaam's support, scanning backups for Linux machines are not supported at this time. So Linux VM logs are missing. When you click the malware detection event, there's nothing nor paths in the details.I equally checked c:\VBRCatalog\Index\Machines\Affected-Linux-VM\ransonwareidx , but i still cannot identify what files or path-to-Files.How can i scan our Linux machines to determine the paths to the files of the Onion links malware detected? I would like to identify what files are being flagged as malware so i can "mark clean" if need be.Any help regarding this please and thank you