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Hi at all,We configured a backup for SQL AAG with Veeam plugin and all work fine, but now we need backup also the OLAP ( Online Analytical Processing ) component for our SQL AAG. Unfortunatly the OLAP is not discoverd by Veeam Plugin and thus I don’t know how setup It's backup with Veeam. Our goal would be configure an backup as did it for the others DB instances Any idea or experience to share ? CiaoLuca 

I did an instant recovery of 2 servers, these servers were from a different location and restored to a new location. Instant recovery went fine. When I migrate to production it creates a whole new server with the name -migrate. Never had this issue doin this to the same location.

I have a customer that would like to have a way to save decommissioned server backups for 7 years.  Their normal retention for backup jobs is 1 year.  They use Data Domain for archive storage.  When they decommission a server they would like to keep the backup for 7 years.  My thought was to create a second repository on the Data Domain, move the backups there and then remove the server from the backup job.  Would this effectively exclude those backups from retention policies?

Source backup job that runs daily (1:00AM to 4:00AM (3hrs long)) is 1 TB in size on Mondays and then short 100GB increments (1:00AM to 1:30AM) each day for the rest of the week.My WAN link to the Offsite can copy 500GB per day.Copy backup will transfer about 500 GB on Monday but automatically stops after Source job runs again -“Failed to process NAS backup copy task Error: Stopped by job SourceX”After Source job finishes, the Copy job automatically starts again. It copies another 500 GB and gets interrupted when the Source job runs again. My question is the copy job restarting each time or resuming from where it got interrupted? Today is Saturday and it hasn’t finished copy the large Monday restore point..  

This is in regard to Veeam for Microsoft 365. Starting in June, Veeam for Microsoft 365 can no longer backup OneNote files (extension is .one) on the first attempt, but succeeds on the second. The reason is always "Item has been changed during the backup." I’m not seeing this with any other Microsoft Office type of document. The backup is through iLand/11:11 - I opened a ticket with their support and they're working with Veeam, however no luck so far. I can confirm the OneNote notebooks were open during the time of the backup, however this has never been an issue, where now we see it almost every day. As this is only .one files, I suspect a change was made to OneNote by Microsoft, or perhaps in the underlying database infrastructure of Microsoft 365. I'm willing to say the problem is in our tenant, but I can't imagine what change we made that would only affect .one files.Any help is appreciated. 

I had the Windows Stand Alone version installed on my Windows 10 PC. The external hard drive it was backing up to failed. I purchased a new external hard drive and had to reinstall the Veeam software. Now backups fail indicating an application error. There are no other details and no log files are being created. Any suggestions on getting backups up and running again would be appreciated. 

Hello forum,What are the “Best Practices” for configuring Sure Backup?On which configuration’s I should take care, how often do you recommend to do it etc.I have a dedicated physical server, a Tower server that will be in use for this purpose.12 Core Processor, 128 GB of RAM and around 10TB of free space. Our largest VM is more than 10TB but it will be okay if SureBackup can use instant restore etcPlease advise :)

I’m trying to add two Physical Computers (Linux 20.04) into inventory to backup.Both are in the same protection group.When adding the servers and clicking “Test Now” the test is successful.After applying the Protection Group changes, I briefly see both servers, then one always disappears.It seems random as to which server remains. I see different fingerprints for each server.I’ve tried using separate protection groups, but the issue is the same. I initially added the computers as part of a backup job creation, but when adding the second server and job, the job always failed. We have uninstalled the agent from both servers, and repeated the process, always with the same result.Veeam Enterprise Plus 11All the other backed up servers are VM’s.Any suggestions? 

The below are just the thoughts that I've been having over the weekend now that Server 2025 has been announced. This is a long-term view that I believe after seeing how the industry has changed especially over the last 5 - 10 years.For those of us who like myself can remember the joy that DosKey and MemMaker brought to the DOS days, given the ways Windows Server evolved from Windows NT 3.5 days, I have to wonder Can Windows Server still evolve and innovate?With today's drive towards XaaS, serverless & micro-services, the infra landscape is starting to change. The rise of DevOps etc in the past few years shows how the landscape is changing. With this in mind, I wonder just how much can Windows Server continue to innovate.I also think that given the VMware/ Brodcam debacle if Microsoft can't seize a lion's share of the virtualization market to all the up-and-coming contenders then just how long will M/S continue to try and develop more features if the market share isn't there? 

Curious if anyone else is running into issues when replying in the hub.  I tend to get a lot of emails to catch up on topics and open tabs for them and then come back.  However, there’s a been a lot lately where I open a tab, come back to it 15-30 minutes later, reply, but when I go to post my reply I get the below error.  Usually refreshing the tab and then posting works, but in the meantime, I’ve lost what I typed.  Curious if anyone else has been running into this issue as of late.  Seems like the past week or so I’ve been having this issue.  

Hi Everyone,Looking for advice. I have never really looked at Nutanix, except for at one time setting up Veeam with it but relying entirely on the Veeam docs. For those Nutanix superstars out there, what recommendations/tips/tricks do you have for learning it? Free resources? Community Edition?A lot of this I could google or go to their site but I find asking folks who have walked the path before saves you a lot of time not taking turns onto dead ends!  

I have a virtual Backup Server and the Repository is a SMB NAS repository and I keep the backup there for 30 days, does it make sense to activate Synthetic Full Backup in such an environment or is forever incremental better?

Onboarded server on VeeamOne appears greyed out and shows error "Uncaught exception thrown by method called Reflection""

We just moved a couple of servers to a new volume in NetApp using its new large file/volume feature. Nothing has changed on the backup job except the volume that it is backing up. The smaller server around 3TB was able to be backed up using SAN but the other server that is approximately 43 TB is being backed up using NBD. Prior to the move, both servers are doing SAN direct.  I would think that since these are both on the same volume is one has been successfully backed up using SAN the other should as well. Both servers are also in the same compute cluster and both are using the same proxies. What is causing this behavior?

Good morning guys,I recently noticed that some of our M365 backup jobs (various tenants and various backup VMs) always complete with warnings. We are having this problem for about a week or so. The messages always look like this:Failed to backup item: /personal/testuser_testdomain_com/Documents/Todo.one, Download request retry timeout exceeded. Has anybody of you noticed similar problems when trying to backup OneNote-Files? Thank you very much best regardsyanni4iwx

Just a heads up for those of you using Veeam plugins. Especially, if they are unmanaged by VBR, which we see quite often for the large line of business applications.Today we have plugins for SAP-HANA, SAP on Oracle (Linux only), Oracle RMAN (Windows and Linux), IBM Db2 and MS-SQL.Having done quite a few upgrades for larger customers recently, I had to learn some non-obvious peculiarities about plugin compatibility:First, you might think (as I did), that VBR always supports the plugin of the major release below the one you’re upgrading to. In fact, it says so in the help center: “Veeam Backup & Replication supports the latest two major versions of Veeam Plug-ins.” (System Requirements - Veeam Plug-ins for Enterprise Applications).The challange is in the term “major version”. To me, that would have meant the number before the decimal point. For example, 12 for 12.x, 11 for 11.x. As it turns out, this is not the case. The next sentence in the help center link above already invalidates

Hello guys, I wanted to create a topic on how migrate from MS SQL to PostgreSQL but I’m facing to an issue.I m following the procedure : https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/vbr_config_migrate_to_postgresql.html?ver=120At the “Target Database” step I choose “Database: PostgreSQL”Then I click to connect and I obtain the following message : For me I don’t have to create a database first, right? For me Veeam should proprose to create the database like this:Did someone else have try the migration process ?

Good dayHave anyone perhaps had this problem that I am experiencing now post upgrade to V12.1 and migrating DB to PostgreSQL 15.5-1.DB migration showed all tasks successful.When trying to open any job report it gives this error“invalid XML content” Thanks

Hopefully no one uses exFAT but if you do check out this KB referencing corrupted files that are possible.KB4233: exFAT Filesystem may corrupt Veeam backup files

I want to document all jobs.Is there a solution for this?First, how can these data be obtained, and secondly, is there a ready-made Excell template for this?I want to document all the jobs and if there is a solution that also documents the entire veeam backup structure, that would be great.Please provide any suggestions you have.

Hi everyone, I am planning to add new SOBR for existing environment (x2 Hyper-V host actually) connecting to the tape library with simple deployment scenario. While we plan to add a new HPE StoreOnce to the infrastructure, is it possible to install the gateway server on the host?Or should it be installed on the backup server?       

I have a Vsan Cluster with 3 ESXi (25Gb Network) and a vm with Veeam 12 and a physical Windows Repository connected with 20 Gb20 VMs must be backup , 3TB ca I am planning how much proxy I need, I am not sure if the proxy installed in the VM where B&R is installed is enough or should I install an additional proxy per Esxi?      

I’ve come across this twice now, and I’m curious if any of you have seen it.  I have a relatively new client that we setup backups for with a copy job to run to a Wasabi bucket.  I have set the repo for 30 days of immutability.  I’m having issues with one of the VM’s being backed up and decided to just blow it away.  Backups are fine, but the copy job has failed on this VM for a couple of months (the newest restore point is from the end of November) due to an odd error when Application Aware Processing is enabled.  Since AAP isn’t really needed for this VM, my plan was to  work around this error and move this VM to a separate backup and copy job where AAP is not enabled but moving to the new job failed.  So I tried to delete the data, and that also failed.  I get the error that the data is immutable until October.  What am I missing here?   

I have a newer client that I recently deployed VBR for that is managed by our Service Provider Console.  At some point in time I stopped getting reports from VBR in the SPC.  The Management Agent was talking to the SPC, but I was getting no information from VBR.  After opening a case with support and uploading logs (kudo’s to the Veeam team for making it so easy to create cases and upload logs within the SPC), support noted the below error found in the logs. 2024-01-22 22:00:19.9095 [ERROR ] 5684 [__21] BackupServerDiscovery: Exception thrown in method CollectBackupServerFromWMISafe from BackupServerDiscovery Exception: System.Management.ManagementException: Access denied2024-01-22 22:00:19.9095 [ERROR ] 5684 [__21] BackupServerDiscovery: Exception thrown in method CollectBackupServerFromWMISafe from BackupServerDiscovery Exception: System.Management.ManagementException: Access denied Support listed two possible fixes, the first of which is making sure the Service Provider entry is set