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Hello everyone,We are a cloud backup provider and I would like to clarify some doubts before migrating to version 13.We currently use version 12 in the latest available build and will soon migrate to version 13, however my question is:After the update, is it possible to restore the settings in the VSA?And will all Cloud Connect configurations be done in the VSA or in the Veeam Infrastructure Appliance?

How can I import information from a Nutanix platform into the Veeam calculator (https://www.veeam.com/calculators), given that the platform is only compatible with RVTools?I am working on a Nutanix AHV environment with around 660 virtual machines, and I need to perform a proper sizing for my infrastructure.  The Nutanix Collector XLSX file is not compatible with the RVTools format required.  

I was deploying Veeam Backup & Replication v13 in my lab and reviewing the Security & Compliance Analyzer when I noticed a new requirement that I hadn’t seen before: “Credential Guard should be enabled.” I also checked Product KB 4252, but this setting is referenced there but can’t enable it.Can anyone clarify where “Credential Guard” can be enabled for VBR, and whether there is any official documentation from Veeam that covers this requirement?  

I have a single VBR server, using a Data Domain as a repo, and it’s running on VMware. We are migrating from VMware to Nutanix AHV. We’ve already migrated a couple hundred VMs already, and now I’m getting down to needing to move the Veeam server.Doing the migration results in some downtime - the migration process requires that new NIC drivers, etc be installed on the VM. I can easily set the services to manual for that duration, and then restart them when it’s done. BUT … is that the best way to do this? I considered installing a new VBR server natively on Nutanix, and then (somehow) migrating all jobs, etc to it. But the problem is, I only have 1 repo, and I know that multiple VR servers shouldn’t share the same repo. Don’t wanna risk corrupting anything.Has anyone else done this? (migrate a VBR server from one hypervisor to another) If so, what did you do? What should I look out for. Any advice appreciated.

Hello,I noticed something very peculiar. We use the Infrastructure Appliance v13.0.1.1071 for VMware Proxies and hardened repositories. The Backup Server is a Windows box running same version.Every night, we get an eMail saying that check for updates was successful for the Windows Backupserver but failed for all the appliances.When we enable the WebGUI on the appliances and login to their WebGUI’s on port 10433, we go to “Updates” which will say that the last check failed. But when we click on “Check for updates” it works fine. Updates are found, downloaded and installed. All good.So what’s the difference between the automatic daily checks and clicking on “check for updates” on each appliance? We never see the firewall dropping outbound traffic from the appliances around the time the automated daily update checks are done. And the Veeam backup Server (Windows) is the only one, every day, which has no problems checking for updates.The fact that manu

I have two file shares: one for backing up my jobs and one for immutable backups. They are both backing up the same virtual machines. However, my immutable backups keep failing. The immutable repository also shows as Unavailable under Managed Servers.The error I’m getting is: ‘Failed to make the backup file immutable after applying the retention policy: Read-only file system. Unable to open file [.veeam.635.lock] in directory [/BACKUPS/"job_name"] — Error: Read-only file system (POSIX).’

Hello,We’ve recently had to move away from Direct SAN backups as we currently have an open ticket with HPE Nimble regarding an issue affecting that transport mode.In the meantime, we’ve configured Veeam to use HotAdd transport, which is working well for the majority of our environment.However, one specific VM refuses to back up via HotAdd.Environment Summary vSphere environment Backup proxy is a VM within the same cluster HotAdd transport mode (Automatic selection) Fallback to network mode disabled (initially) Veeam account used: adminaccount@vsphere.local (member of vsphere.local\Administrators, inherited from Global Permissions) No snapshot or consolidation warnings on the VM All hosts in cluster have access to the same datastores Problem VM Details VM ha

We’re in the process of migrating from VMWare to Nutanix and have a brand new Veeam installation and repo and we’re testing the backup configurations right now. What we’re seeing is that there is a 60 day expiration on the snapshots Veeam creates during a backup in Nutanix and it doesn’t clean any of them up following the backup. It just keeps stacking snapshots every time it runs and we need it to run daily. In the end we’ll have nearly 300 servers in this environment some of them absolutely massive. Is there a configuration I’m somehow missing here? 

Hi all,I am currently encountering an issue when backing up a very large NAS.Each file share is over 100 TB, and there are more than 3 backup jobs. The backup process has been running for 140 hours and is still only around 10-15% complete.We are currently backing up from a Nutanix file share and using the “Backup directly from file share” method in Veeam. I have split the proxy into two. The first proxy uses the VBR server itself, and the second proxy uses a VM from Nutanix.Is there another way to make the file share backup process faster? Or has anyone else experienced something similar? Because at this point, the backup process will not meet the RPO.  

Hi,I needed to open a support case, however, when clicked on “Open a case” button I was presented with https://www.veeam.com/upgrade.html?return_url=https%3A%2F%2Fmy.veeam.com page requesting additional details to upgrade my profile. Filled out the form, clicked on “Upgrade profile” button - the page basically just refreshes with my data in it, doesn’t proceed further. Tried several times, also in a different browser.Thank you!

we have initiated veeam replication job from pr site to dr site and failover to dr site,at dr site after failover we imported vm to VCD and renamed vm to new one and makes changes to replica on VCD,after this we failback to production and commit failback,but changes done on dr site vm are not showing up on pr site vm, what could be the possible issues.  

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Hi everyone,I have a SureBackup issue and I’m trying to understand the IP selection behavior.SetupRepository server has two NICs:Management NIC 192.168.10.191 Has gateway Domain profile iSCSI NIC 172.16.100.11 No gateway No DNS Used only for iSCSI to Synology ProblemSureBackup fails with: Failed to connect to the endpoint [172.16.100.11:2500]Veeam is trying to connect to the iSCSI IP instead of the management IP.What I verified VBR can connect to 192.168.10.191:2500 → OK VBR cannot reach 172.16.100.11 → expected VeeamTransportSvc is running

I have a 7 node HyperV failover cluster and each host is running Windows server 2022. I have about 20 Red hat linux VMs in my cluster and added the cluster to my Veeam inventory. Most of the VMs added sucessfully with the cluster, but about 6 of them are added with all blank fields. There's no name, no node info and the host OS says unknown. When I try to add these VMs to a backup job in Veeam 12.3.2.3, they show the accurate disk capacity on the VM page, but when I run the job they all fail. I get an error about how Veeam failed to get the VHDX information.Many of the VMs had multiple HyperV checkpoints that were all deleted and merged. There was also an issue where our HyperV cluster had cluster traffic blocked on certain nodes in the past, which may have cause some Cluster synchronization/ownership permission.  Please advise on how to make Veeam able to read these VMs.  I understand this may be a more of a Microsoft issue, but any assistance is appreciated.  

My recent discovery so it could help someone not to loose time. And maybe if there is a solution I’ll be most thankful.So with Proxmox version 9 you need to set Machine type to version 9.2 instead of Default as it defaults to 10 and that causes Veeam backup to fail.  That will insure that your backup will be sucesful and restore will work too. I have issue, where I am migrating servers from Hyper-v to Proxmox and usual and most painless solution was to use Veeam Backup&Restore as intermediary as we are already using it.But in this case restore to proxmox fails as when VM is created is created with default version for machine type and this defaults to 10 and this results in: Failed to prepare disks for restore. (If anybody knows how to convince the process to default to 9.2 Mychine type I’

Hey guys,I’m installing a VM on our Synology NAS to act as a Veeam Hardened Repo. I already had it before but now doing it trough Infrastructure Appliance.When I start the installation I get’s stuck in this process: Any recommendations for it? 

I wanted to abandon my bare-metal Windows Server/VBR12 instance because of Microsoft and finally switch to VSA.So I set up and configured a bare-metal test installation of VSA on the server.This server has a direct connection to the HPE MSL 4048 tape library via a SAS controller.Full of anticipation, I then read: "Note that Veeam Software Appliance cannot be used as a tape server." at: https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/vbr/userguide/connecting_tape_devices.html?ver=13Seriously? That's incredibly counterproductive!Now I'm supposed to set up and maintain another server because VSA doesn't have the usual integrated tape server role? I also haven't found any option in the web UI to integrate and use the currently running tape library via a tape server, as is usually the case.Seriously? Did the DevOps team drop the ball here?

Sorry to rant, but I have nowhere else to turn, and it's beginning to impact our clients. Veeam 13 has been absolutely horrible to install on all our backup servers. The upgrades are breaking the installs on current backup servers. It is straight up failing to install and start the Veeam service on a brand new server, and Veeam support has been unable to figure it out for two weeks. I've put escalation requests in and I'm getting nowhere. has anybody seen behaviour like this? The people on the Veeam subreddit agree that Veeam 13 has been horrible to roll out.

Hello,I’m currently planning to migrate from Windows VBR to VEEAM VSA. I’m currently working with tape library, when i installed the VSA, and logged via the WEB interface, i was amazed that the console doesn’t support adding tape servers (Am i missing something ?)Installing the desktop console will fix this ? the desktop client support creating tape libraries ?If working with the client desktop console, the MFA is still supported? we can benefit from the update feature of the VSA or updating the console should be manually ? is there a way to disable the VSA Backup and replication WEB UI to keep only the console working ?Thanks in advance

Hello everyone! So currently we have deployed VBR 12 CE on a virtualized Windows machine running on Proxmox VE 8.4.11. We are backing up our OES Server running on version 24.3.3. We want to be able to backup our OES Server including the network volumes running on NSS and all the metadata for the files on these volumes. Currently we are only doing VM backups. Is this enough to backup the metadata?If not, what would be the best way to ensure the metadata is getting backed up aswell?Is it possible to perform File level restores in this configuration? Thank you, Nico

Does anyone know if the issues with adding a workgroup (non-domain) host is limited just to VSA? Or are the same requirements in the Windows version of v13?

Hi everyone,Lately, "AI Agents" (especially autonomous agents, agentic AI, etc.) have become super popular. Lots of companies are starting to automate their business processes with AI agents. So I got curious:On the Veeam side (Backup & Replication, Veeam ONE, Veeam Recovery Orchestrator, etc.), is there any custom-built or in-use AI Agent project / tool / integration specifically for Veeam?From what I know:Veeam officially released something called Agent Commander (announced in February 2026). This focuses on detecting risks created by AI agents, protecting against them, and even undoing AI mistakes (rollback/restore). But it's more about "managing / protecting AI agents" rather than an agent that automates Veeam backup operations itself. In the community, I came across BackupPaw (shared around March 2026). It's an AI agent built on top of n8n, using Veeam REST API to let you manage bac

I am running Veeam V12 in a vSphere 7 environment and trying to upgrade to 12.3.2.4465. I mount the ISO, run setup and click Upgrade. The upgrade fails every time with the following message."An error has occurred: The system cannot open the device or file specified". I click ok to the message and the upgrade stops. We identified Possible OS or Windows Installer cache corruption.Potential missing or inaccessible .msi files.Potential ISO corruption or mounting issue. Would it be possible to move to a virtual appliance  instead of preparing  a new Windows Server, install the same or newer version of Veeam Backup & Replication, and restore configuration backup to this new server? Please advise.

I am trying to deploy Veeam Data Platform v13 on my windows server however i am getting the error “License is not valid for this product” when attaching the license to it before the deployment. Deployment cant proceed like the previous versions with no license.The foundation license was purchased late September before V13 was released so I suspected that was the case, I went into the license portal and generated a new license for V13 however the same error occurred. I have the windows defender the Kaspersky antivirus disabled to avoid having any error in deploying the license however I am stuck here.

I have ran a backup for the microsoft exchange, now i am testing the restore. We have deleted an email from the inbox. Now I have selected restore application item, microsoft exchange mailbox, the veeam explorer for microsoft exchange opened, I went to the mailbox, selected the email and started the restore. Step by step i added the target mailbox that i want to restore to, selected the onprem microsoft exchange server, i specified the admin user that has access to the exchange server, it didnt automatically populate, so i added the mailbox server manually and selected restore to original folder, is that correct? It is stuck at validating for a whileI am following the guide step by step : https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/vbr/userguide/restore_to_onprem.html?ver=13