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Veeam Agent backup failure due to VSS error. When checked in Event logs, found an error for VSS “automatically choosing a diff-area volume processing endpreparesnapshots”. Has anybody worked on this without rebooting the server?

In case you missed the announcement, Veeam has introduced Veeam Data Cloud as our branded Backup as a Service offering. Today Veeam Data Cloud offering is for Microsoft 365 and Azure. Additional solutions will be released in near future. Not only will you find coverage on the corporate Veeam website, but also on ProPartner Portal with a Veeam Data Cloud toolkit. 

Hi, I vaguely recall seeing an option where a backup job is automatically started when a USB drive containing a backup repository is plugged into the server.  I can’t seem to find it again…was I dreaming?Thanks, Hammer

hi veeam ommunityGuidelines for responding to ransomware. Does anyone have instructions on what to do if, for example, one of the servers is infected with ransomware? I mean the actions related to veeam backup. I want to write an instruction and I want to use the experience of you experts. 

We relocated one of our VMs to another backup job and noticed that the job completion status information for the VM is “Resetting CBT per job settings for active fulls”. Our backup jobs are configured with incremental backups and one synthetic full backup per week.  I am curious if we move one of the VMs to another backup job, does Veeam automatically perform an active full on it? Thanks Pete  

Running Veeam v12 and currently backing up for 14 days to a local HPE storeonce.I want to also put a longer term copy into an AWS S3 bucket for about 1 year. Probably once a month.The best option I think is to perform a backup copy, not via a SOBR.If via copy is there a compatibility issue creating a copy job from storeonce catalyst repos to S3 repos? thoughts?

So we are deploying Veeam for ourselves and I have been fighting with it for a few days.  Our setup is: Veeam server - Non-Domain joinedVeeam Proxy - Linux with XFS volume attached via RDM in VMwareA scale out Repo setup that is backed by the xfs volume from the Linux machineOur primary Altera arrays are also added into Veeam under the storage Infrastructure and i am able to browse the snapshots on them and perform restores. Both servers are located in the same site/network.  The storage is coming from a LUN on an Altera Hybrid array that is presented to both hosts in the esxi cluster.We have a mix of domain joined, non-domain joined windows machines along with some random Linux boxes.  I just have a simple nightly backup job created that has all of our servers included in it.  I have selected the Linux proxy for the backup proxy in the job which then pulls in the Scale-out Backup Repo.  In the advanced settings everything is default with the exception of changing the compression level

Hello all,I'm just curious about license and how it counted. We bought already license Veeam B&R.I would like to confirm if no additional license is required cause I'm bit confused.Is my license sufficient for this needs? Those file shares are also included?My license edition is: Enterprise Plusthanks,Ladislav.

Hello,I have an environment where I have a domain controller, a domain joined server with a sql server installed. I want to install veeam backup & replication on another server 2022. Do I need to join the veeam server to the domain?Best regards

Hello,Getting the following error when trying to run SureBackup in Veeam which is on a windows server 2019.“Error: VM was created with the later version of Hyper-V than the one installed on host.”The VM’s are configured with version 10 and they are on server 2022. Server 2019 supports only until configuration 9.0.Is there any way to run the surebackup for VM’s with configuration version 10.0 on this host? Thank you.

I learned a lot during the last few weeks about Veeam and I am kind of exited about this software. I resolved almost all problems, but there is still one issue I cant get a grip on. Ich have several backup jobs in a chain. No parallel Jobs. I have a lightning fast proxy (Veeam suggests a maximum of 24 parallel jobs).My persisting promlem is, that jobs get stuck absolutly randomly. Sure, after hours the stuck job fails, goes into retry1 and finishes successfull. But thats not satisfying… Is there anything I missed about jobs getting stuck? Just for your information: Jobs launch and run. They get stuck somewhere after 20%, 50% or 90%. So abolutly random… I recognized that the “veeam backup service” gets completly frozen. This service cant be stopped by anything else than a server restart.

Hello. Backups failing with message cannot take snapshot on physical server with CentOS Stream 8 and CentOS Stream 9. Please help me fix this. 

Hey Everyone,VMware has recently rolled out the newest iteration of ESXi, version 8.0.2b. Among its fixes of fixes and enhancements, one particular fix should be called out: addressing an issue related to Changed Block Tracking (CBT) and virtual machines with a hot extended virtual disk.  In vSphere 8.0 Update 2, to optimize the open and close process of virtual disks during hot extension, the disk remains open during hot extend operations. Due to this change, incremental backup of virtual disks with CBT enabled might be incomplete, because the CBT in-memory bitmap does not resize, and CBT cannot record the changes to the extended disk block. As a result, when you try to restore a VM from an incremental backup of virtual disks with CBT, the VM might fail to start. For more information and to get the bits, head over to the release notes page of 8.0.2b.

I have customer with two veeam servers and we want to de-mote one to just be a proxy. As we transition, could the 2nd veeam server also be a proxy for the main veeam server while we test all backups from the main server. Once all looks good then we can uninstall B&R and just run that host purely as a proxy.thoughts?

Hi All,We are designing a new Veeam Backup Solution. This will be a hardened solution with Linux OS on REPO Server for immutability Snapshot integration will be setup for Veeam to backup from NetApp Snapshots Solution will consist of virtual VMware proxy servers, 1 physical server as the repository server with RHEL installed, iSCSI connected Storage Area Network (SAN) Storage to provide the Repo storage to this RHEL physical serverWe need to understand the Storage Area Network (SAN) Storage requirements such as how much RAM, CPU that SAN should have on the 2 controllers? The Physical RHEL repo server will have 128GB memory, 2 x 18 core CPUs and can see the sizing detail for this in the vse sizer, however have not been able to see sizing around the SAN and the RAM/CPU they should have as we dont want to be in a position where the SAN Controllers are struggling. Thanks, 

Hi! Our Object First appliance just arrived, and we are preparing to install it in our lab environment. It´s a beautiful object storage 😊Derek also received an appliance and will write a series of posts about tests and performance. I will share my impressions here. Looking forward to the series! 👏🏻  

Before installing Agent for Windows 6.1.0.349, unlicensed, I’d never seen a “Job HOST_1” created. That’s on something like seven years and two or three Windows 10/11 clients running the free agent every night. Since installing 6.1.0.349, I see these created by one or more of the three clients most night. One client is Windows 10, two are Windows 11, all target a Synology Diskstation over SMB, one via Ethernet connection and two via WiFi.These started showing up the first night after installing the Agent update.I’ve deleted or relocated the _1 job folder on the server, and then edited the job on the client to map it back to the “Job HOST” backup set. It says HOST is already using the backup Job HOST. I say OK. Happiness is restored, the job runs as expected, and all is good until I go looking for Job HOST_1 folders the next morning. Rinse and repeat.Any suggestions?

For any NetApp ONTAP or Lenovo ONTAP fans. Veeam has qualified ONTAP 9.14.1 GA with Veeam Data Platform 12.1. One of the features I was waiting for was ONTAP S3 with Object Lock for ransomware protection. Unfortunately this did not work for me see screenshot below. I have reported it to NetApp. They told me that it could be fixed in an ONTAP 9.14.1 “P” release. The non object lock version still works😀.   Veeam Documentation link for NetAppNetApp FAS/AFF/ASA, FlexArray (V-Series), ONTAP Edge/Select/Cloud VSAhttps://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/system_requirements.html?ver=120#netapp-fas-aff-asa--flexarray--v-series---ontap-edge-select-cloud-vsaVeeam Documentation link for LenovoLenovo DM Serieshttps://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/system_requirements.html?ver=120#lenovo-dm-seriesNetApp ONTAP 9.14.1 Release Noteshttps://library.netapp.com/ecm/ecm_download_file/ECMLP2492508  

Hi All,I know that his topic has been discussed before in the community but I tried all what mentioned on those topics but it did not work.I checked that Veeam Agent for Linux is installed also the Oracle Plugin installed too but when I do application backup (RMAN) via the VBR console I’ve got the warning “Nothing to process” It is also added to managed Linux and added to Protection GroupFrom Oracle Linux all the required packages and component are installed also I removed it and uninstall the agent and plugin and reinstall it and re scan it many times and got the same thing.Is there a missing thing ? Thanks in advanced for your  help and support

Hi Team,The question is based on the article Veeam Service Provider Console 8.0 Deployment Guide’ ( Veeam Service Provider Console 8.0 (https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/vac/deployment/ports.html?ver=80). Communications from Veeam Service Provider Console Server to Veeam Cloud Connect server the on TCP  port range 49152 to 65535. As per a Veeam support team person, they mentioned that, it is better to open around 50-100 ports to facilitate potential requests between the servers.Just wondering the best method to assign the ports through the firewall. Tried using the ‘netstat -aon’ to identify any listening state ports. To facilitate the connection from VSPC server to VCC server, simply can create an outbound rule on the VSPC server firewall for the specified port range (49152 - 65535) and an inbound firewall rule on the VCC server for the same port range.However, not sure whether this is the best method to achieve the task in a production environment since, opening ports on a server unn

⏳😻Once more, it's time to select our favorite blog of the month! Despite February being a short month, we've been treated to outstanding content from everyone! We've shortlisted six standout blogs, and now it's your turn to vote! Make sure to vote by March 3rd, and we'll reveal the winner on March 4th. Don't miss out on this chance to voice your opinion!💪✍👇Wishing all our participants the best of luck! 😊@marcofabbri , @Michael Melter , @Geoff Burke , @leduardoserrano , @allynz , @Chris.Childerhose Best, Madi  

hi Veeam CommunityI have a veeam backup server that is physically installed on an hpe server and the backup repositories are also local. There are 3 drives that are 18 TB each.Now we want to replace the new server with new hardware and my question is, what is the best way to migrate to the new server?There are about 60 terabytes of data on local drivesHow can we do this with minimal downtime or disruption?Does anyone have any experience with this, I'd be happy to hear any suggestions or advice you may have

Hello all, is there any possibility to have report directly from Veeam? We have Veaam v12.2 for really small environment and Installing/configuring VeeamONE is a big hammer for this nail.I would like to have same report as you got when you right click on completed backup job “last24 hours” and click on report. I didn’t find anything that can do that automatically to file.thanks,Ladislav.

Hi everybody!Exist some configuration to use a current SAN infrastructure to send backups from Solaris agent to Repository server (in Windows) ? Thanks a lot for your answers and regards.