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After a successfully instant restoration of hyper-v vm to another hyper-v host, not able to open AD users and computers, it is throwing error of not supported OS version. 

we have backed up a Redhat Linux Oracle VM using normal vm backup and enabled application aware processing by providing required credentials. later backup was successfully completed. but when we start Oracle application based restore, it launches Veeam explorer for Oracle and directly asks for target server connection details for Huesrisitc analysis . As per documentation, after Veeam explorer is launched, we should be able to see and select our backup restore points. in our case it directly asks target server connection details. when i checked in Veeam documentation link given below, this target server details are asked for Hueristic analysis for non-application enabled backups.https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/explorers/nonvss_restore_wizard.html?ver=120 below is the error we get in huerisitc analysis stage after we provide target server credentials, please help to resolve this issue.    

Hello, I’m actually testing surebackup with a sql server always on cluster.Setting to test default SqlChecker script.Unfurtunatelly, it seems not to be working well.All the databases (exepts system db) are in RECOVERY_PENDING state in the mounted vm lab.Is surebakup working for always on clusters ?Am I missing something ? thanks for your help.Fred

HelloI have installed Veeam backup 12.1.1.56 on a vsphere vm.  The backup service is running, but I cannot open the console.I am getting in the screen:  String was not recognized as a valid BooleanI have no issue with enterprise manager, it can be logged into.Will be glad for adviceThank you Keren 

Can you use and test with SureBackup if you are only using a Linux Hardened Repository?

Hi wondering if anyone can help with an error I am getting on a backup I have a few hyper v VMs backing up and a couple of Windows 10 machines.1 machine is causing a bit of hassle and was wondering if anyone has seen this before.I see this warning message in the GUI:26/03/2024 13:55:22 :: Collecting recovery media files Details: Access is denied   I see this in the logs:[26.03.2024 13:57:35] <01> Error    Failed to add recovery media files to the backup[26.03.2024 13:57:35] <01> Error    Failed to build WIM file at C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\oovnnf03.5ok\sources\boot.wim (System.Exception)[26.03.2024 13:57:35] <01> Error       at Veeam.Core.Common.CWimBuilder.Build(String wimPath, Int32 imageIndex, ITaskLog taskLog, ICancelFlag cancelFlag, IWimBuilderAction bootFilesExtractionAction, IWimBuilderAction adkFilesExtractionAction)[26.03.2024 13:57:35] <01> Error       at Veeam.Core.Common.CWinREFilesCollector.CollectFiles(CWimBuilderOptions options, ICancelFlag cancelFlag)[26.

Hi Folks,I was wondering if people would be interested in creating a VMCE study group. I will be honest this time around I am a bit terrified of this exam. For one thing the last number of years my study focus has been on something else (I wonder what that is), I am naturally not great at these things just work double in order to try and be included in with the real smart folks 😃, plus the amount of changes in V12 will prevent me from winging it on previously acquired knowledge in older VMCEs and work experience.Obviously this would not be a “dump” zone or “point you to the answer from the test” cheating location, but instead a group creating questions, helping to understand fuzzy issues and most importantly giving support to people like me who have been petrified of exams/tests ever since kindergarten🤣. I led a CKA group study over on Kodekloud for a few Months and it was a lot of fun. We had bi-weekly calls (could have been Monthly to be honest) and some of the study techniques I l

 I was researching about “Immutable Storage” it and found out that it has these limitations: Linux hardened repository:“The immutability feature is supported for image-level backups only. You can use a hardened repository to store NAS backups, transaction backups, RMAN, SAP HANA, SAP on Oracle backups, but you cannot use the immutability feature to protect these backups.” Object Storage repository:The immutability feature is applicable to the Capacity Tier and Archive Tier backups. It does not support the NAS backups  I am looking for the best solution for immutable storage for performance tier. Is there a solution to have immutable for sql transaction logs also? 

Hello everyone, This morning during my VMware VM backup job, I encountered the following error:Error: Cannot proceed with the job: existing backup meta file 'Prio 0.vbm' on repository 'ds_veeam_sanctl03' is not synchronized with the DB. To resolve this, run repository rescan As explained in the message, I initiated a rescan of the datastore on my NAS. The scan failed with this error:11/01/2024 09:10:58 Warning    Failed to import backup path nfs3://xxxxx:/|volume1|ds_veeam|Prio 0|Prio 0.vbm Details: '.', valeur hexadécimale 0x00, est un caractère non valide. Ligne 1, position 1.  I did not find any information about this error in the knowledge base or other forum messages. I am using Veeam Backup & Replication 11.0.1.1261 P20220302. Thank’s for advance.Philippe.

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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 , @Iams3le , @Moustafa_Hindawi , @Scott , @Geoff Burke , @HunterLAFR Let’s share it on our socials and get more votes!Best, Madi 

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 detailsProcessing finished with warnings at 3/17/2024 10:33:16 PM

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:Immediate copy (mirroring) Object is the Daily Backup from above Schedule is any timeDepending on the backup the target differs:Repository is either NAS A o

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 employees). 😭 Ugh... I could already see myself da

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 same experience?