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It's time to vote! As you're aware, this is a special edition dedicated to World Backup Day, and we've received numerous fantastic stories from our community members and we decided that all of them should be part of this competition! Thank you all for sharing these stories with us! Now, let's see which blog gets best blog of the month and wins the $100 voucher!Please vote until March 31st ! Wishing all our participants the best of luck! 😊@mkevenaar , @Chris.Childerhose , @coolsport00 , @JMeixner , @MarkBoothman , @leduardoserrano , @MarcoLuvisi , @marco_s , @mhmdadl

Hello, Thanks, I am not able to perform an instant restore of a linux VM.I am stuck that the helper appliance dialog box.I select a server from the list, but the OK button is disabled?Using VBR 12.1.0.2131I searched around the forum and internet, could not find the answerPlease advice, thanks, David  

This is very high priority if that is not clear by the title.The webinar was earlier this week and included instructions - does anyone have a copy or a link to the replay? Thank you!

Hey everyone,We've encountered an issue with our immutable backup setup. We've configured our Ubuntu server to shut down after completing the backup, turning it on before initiating the backup process. As a result, the server shuts down at 1 AM every day after finishing its backup routine.However, once a week, we receive the following error message. I've been able to resolve it by deleting the file, but it keeps reappearing. Is there a way we can extend the immutability time to avoid this issue recurring?  A problem occurred during setting the immutable flag: repository time shift detected, immutability flag cannot be set. Please refer to KB4482 for more detai

Hello all,I have created application-aware backup for Oracle DB. All is good but few SIDs are not switched to archive mode(or not even used) but Veeam is trying to save them and therefore backup finish with warning. is it possible to defined only one exact SID that must be backed up and others ignore?thanks,Ladislav.

Hi,I am trying to create a SureBackup job using replicas rather than run from the backups (For performance reasons) but when I go to add a VM from replicas there are no objects in the Select Replica screen.the replica is stored on a standalone Hyper-V host with large DASI’ve created replicas from live VM’s and current backups and although they exist in the replicas folder, there is nothing appearing in the Select Replica screen in the SureBackup application group settings.I’m running VEEAM 12.1.1.56 Any ideas, it’s driving me nuts ThanksRhys 

Hi Everyone,Just an update. The Study group is coming soon! Don’t be tempted to buy any practice exams 😁! Again the study group won’t provide any answers, it will do much better, it will provide the means to get to the answers. Those same means and methods can then be used in real life production situations to solve problems. At the end of the day that is what we all want apart from the shinny certificate! 

Why Veeam doesn’t have such an option to delete Existing Snapshots from Veeam Console?  vCenter is connected with Veeam Console.

Hi All,Recently we take our backup in external HDD and Copy the backup data to the S3 Object storage,after adding the S3 Object Repo we try to import the data from S3, but no backup data is found. we also try manually copy the data to s3 object folder but it not working,anyone face this issue or any solutions for this? 

I have to set up a structure like 7 daily, 4 weekly, 12 monthly and 5 yearly backups for my workplace, but am somewhat restricted in budget and storage space per device, so I have two NAS as backup repository, but each one allone is to small to save all the backups.Now I am looking for a way to spread the backups over both NAS, e.g. save daily and monthly to NAS A, weekly and yearly to the NAS B. My initial idea would be:A regular Backup Job for daily Backups, targeting NAS A, set up asSchedule: Run everyday at 9 pm; full backup every saturday Storage Retention Policy: 7 restore points Keep certain fulls longer: unchecked Configure secondary destinations: checked Secondary Target: Weekly Backup Copy Job Monthly Backup Copy Job Yearly Backup Copy Job My next step is to set up the Copy Jobs, they all share the following settings:Immedia

I had to learn very early in my professional career that a backup can save your life. During my studies, I was in the first or second practical phase in the company and was supposed to clean up some directories of an application on an OS/2 server. It was the administration of access rights to the branches throughout the region…. So I opened the command line and started browsing the folder structure. Finally, I found the files I wanted to delete and started typing the delete command. And sent it off...Unfortunately, I hadn't checked again which directory I was currently in - unfortunately it was the root directory... And so a whole lot of important directories and files were irretrievably deleted. 😱😱😱 So, now I was a poor student in the first or second semester and had to confess to my supervisors that I had just killed the access management of the entire region (around 15 branches spread across western Germany with several thousand em

hi veeam CommunityFor more security I need to setup 2FA or MFA for enterprise manager.Does anyone have experience or ideas? What is the right tool for this?There is a tutorial for this ?BR & EM servers are installed on the same server

I’ve been testing syslog with v12.1 and I cant seem to see messages related to an unsuccessful login to the VBR console. We see messages for logins and logouts but not unsuccessful.I’ve also configured Veeam ONE syslog and this seems to show all logins but not VBR.I have even tested this with the Veeam lab “test drive 12.1” at https://propartner.veeam.com/hands-on-labs/ has anyone else tested this at all or had experience of it? We need to get unsuccessful logins somehow…. thanks

This is a very interesting warning. I migrated lots of VBR servers, and it’s the first time I've run into this warning.The detailed warning message is below:Warning Failed to connect to Red Hat Virtualization plug-in: Failed to login to platform service: The remote certificate is invalid according to the validation procedure.It happened after I migrated from the VBR server with SQL Express to the new VBR server with PostgreSQL.All Hosts and repositories are pure Hyper-V environments. There are no Linux servers or repositories.It’s easy to fix this issue. I rebooted the VBR server and ran the backup configuration again. The warning message is gone. Does anyone have the

Yesterday I came across an interesting bug using version 12.1.1.56 I have been creating plenty of jobs and test jobs to Wasabi without issue for quite a while. For some reason, one of the jobs I created gave me an error.  I thought this was odd as I had not enabled rollbacks, and there isn’t even a setting to adjust the setting for transform previous chains into rollbacks on Object Storage jobs.  Following KB4390 https://www.veeam.com/kb4390 There are 2 easy PowerShell commands to fix this issue.  The first command will find all jobs using the

Hello everyone!After reading some of your experiences and submissions, specially @Madi.Cristil s one, I’ve found some time to tell you mine,this is a personal story, here we go: Back on 2000 - 2001 , I was an exchange student flying from Spain to the US, without knowing any English at all, just few words, the worst pronunciation ever, scared and to the unknown.At the beginning, it was fine to take pictures with “single use cameras” (I’m felling very old right now)but after a while, I saw on Walmart a Digital camera, a Sony Cybershot!! OMG! 😱 1.3mpx of super high quality pictures, jpeg, TIFF and GIF! a monster!!I bought it, and quickly I started fulling the 64MB memory Stick!! tons of pictures, fortunately, the Computer I’ve got in the house had a

My console stopped opening yesterday, crashing and complaining about clr.dll. There’s a R&D post about removing the user.config file (Here), but that didn’t work. Anyone else recently seeing this? Log Name: ApplicationSource: Application ErrorDate: 12/7/2023 6:27:37 AMEvent ID: 1000Task Category: (100)Level: ErrorKeywords: ClassicUser: N/AComputer: MANBK-CARM-VEMDescription:Faulting application name: veeam.backup.shell.exe, version: 12.1.0.2131, time stamp: 0xf82aa70aFaulting module name: clr.dll, version: 4.8.4645.0, time stamp: 0x648f6f63Exception code: 0xc0000005Fault offset: 0x0000000000018551Faulting process id:

Patched VBO to the latest version; installed windows updates recently; tested console restore and backups and both were fine. however, notcied the next day that portal is not functional.  The portal appears, you input credentials, it takes you to azure portal; you input credentials again and url chanegs to the portal again and it just stays thereLogs show14.03.2024 09:30:11.727]   55 (19664) Authorization started (grant type: OperatorAccessTokenResponse)[14.03.2024 09:30:12.260]   55 (19664)  Authorization succeeded 14.03.2024 09:30:12.261]   55 (19664) Error: IDX10634: Unable to create the SignatureProvider.Algorithm: 'RS256', SecurityKey: 55 (19664) Type: System.NotSupportedException this algo is supported in Windows already checked  We are using the same self-signed certificate when restorng using the VBO console which works fine and the backups have been runnig as well; 

Hi guys,I need some help to export my incremental files on tape.Policies: Archiving Full backups once a week on new tapes and used tapes are exported, archiving Incremental backups on new tapes and used tapes are exported. Entity Configuration settings Media pool Full and incremental backups use different media pools. Media pool (retention) Protect data for <desired period>  Media set (retention) Create new media set for every backup session Source (backup job) Forward incremental backup that runs daily with synthetic  Tape job Export current media set..

Lets say a periodic legacy backup copy job “LEGACY” was configured to copy 3 source jobs: JOB-A, JOB-B, JOB-CDuring the creation of the new-format backup copy job named “NEW”, only source job JOB-A was initially included.  On the storage tab, target mapping was used to point to the “LEGACY” job.   This triggered a format upgrade for all items inside the LEGACY job, creating a new target named “NEW”.Now I want to edit the “NEW” job to add “JOB-B” as an additonal souce.Do I need to return to the storage-tab of the job and choose target mapping and select “LEGACY” again?What happens if I do?Will it recognise that this chain has already been converted and correctly target “NEW” instead?

Hi Everyone,I need some guidance on deploying a new hardened backup repository as a SOBR extent. Current we have a customer which uses a regular windows repository as extent doing copy to an Azure blob. We need to move all the content (backup chains) from this Windows repository to the hardened one (using imutability). I´m trying to find out the appropriate way to do that. There is only one performance extent (with data locality policy) and we are not able to add the hardened repo because all extents need to have same imutability settings. Cannot evacuate because there is no other extent to evacuate.How can I accomplish this without having to download metadata or resync data with Azure blobs? Our goal here is to only offload old repo content to the hardened repo and set them as extent copying data to Azure, if possible, doing little to no change on Azure tiers/blobs to avoid costs. 

Hello,I have 2 Hyper-V hosts:Host no.1: several VMs, VM replicas from Host no.2 and a VM with Veeam B&R server (v12) Host no.2: several VMs, VM replicas from Host no.1 including a VM replica with Veeam B&R server (v12)The repository for backups and replicas is an additional NAS server.I need to completely reinstall Host 1, so I need to temporarily move everything to Host 2 - including the Veeam B&R server.These are production servers, so the whole operation must be stable and fast. What is the best way to do this?

hi Veeam communityI want to run a sclae out repository and I need your help and experience.I want to buy suitable storage for all three tiers (performance, capacity, archive) and I want to have immutable capability in all three levels.Your experience and guidance can help me make the right choices.What features should be taken into consideration when choosing storage, what storages have you had experience working with and were they good experiences.Thank you in advance for all your comments