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I’m using NetApp 9.12 just a cifs smb share. I followed the instructions from veeam to create the storage infrastructure for netapp and the subsequent NAS filer. I created a file to tape job to use vss and confirm that the snapshot is being created by veeam on NetApp. I have the virus scanning to exclude the directory based on NetApp’s published kb on excluding snapshots from vscan. What is the right format of '-paths-to-exclude' in 'vserver vscan onaccess-policy' command? - NetApp Knowledge BaseUse Snapshots to backup SMB File Shares on your NetApp ONTAP system (veeam.com)With vscan enabled veeam will just stop transferring completely for long periods of time. With vscan disabled it backs up normally. How can I tell if veeam is actually using the snapshot it creates and not just trying to access the files? In the file to tape job I have use ms VSS checked in the options. in the SMB file share I have it set to backup from a ms VSS Snapshot and “failover to direct backup if a snapshot i

Hello,We had 13 Backup Jobs that were all started in the same time period from 21:00 to 22:00.VBR server had 32 GB of RAM and 10 cores. It was a VM.All Backup Jobs were with single VM inside of it.Was this good approach or it was too much for our VBR Server to handle.We didn’t have any off-host Proxies and VBR Server and 60% of VMs were on the same Hyper-V host.It was acting then as only proxy for those jobs as I can assume.What would be the better approach on this?I’m still trying to grasp Veeam with his technologies as best I can..

I’m using Veeam Community (free) license, and I want to use swapped external hard drives as offsite backup for my locally hosted repository.  But when I try to create a pruning Backup Copy job, it keeps saying I need Backup and Replication Enterprise Plus.  The descriptions I’ve read make it sound easy, but they’re all vague about what sort of license is required.  It’s like they are conflating “community” as a forum and as a license?  I absolutely cannot upgrade to a paid license.What am I missing?

Me again with new topic 😁At the moment our VBR Server is located on the Hyper-V Host where are also the 50% of VMs that we are backing up. Without Using Off-Host proxies I can guess that all load will come to Hyper-V host which is hosting VMs and VBR also.I guess that data movers from source VM and VBR are run on the Hyper-V host itself.What would be the best practice for placement of VBR?Is it good idea then to isolate it from the VMs that we are backing up or?I can host it on some Hyper-V Host which doesn’t have productive VMs or anyAlso then our off-host backup proxy should be physical machine or somewhere where we also dont have anything?

Hello Forum,I have question about few things so that I make the change as smooth as possible.The plan is to create everything from scratch because our current configuration is really awful and time for change has come.  Current Situation is like this:VBR V11 on Hyper-V VM Subscription: Enterprise Plus Instances: 20 (13 used) Inventory: 1 Hyper-V Cluster  2 Standalone Hosts Now I need to remove everything from this server and to transfer the license to the new one Questions:How to transfer the license? How to properly remove Inventory so that I don’t have problem when adding it to a new V12 VBR server? I know that few folks had problems when attempting to add the hosts to new VBR, something stuck on the old VBR etc. I will not do a configuration backup because I want everything from scratch. Please feel free to write any other recommendations that I need to take care off.I did it one year ago but I would need the help from Veeam Legends to do it the propper way this time 😁

Since upgrading to V12 VeeamBR (and having to revert to a snapshot due to critical error) I get this on every SOBR tier job. I have rescanned both the hypervs as well as the azure blob then ran tier job now but still get the same error every time  Backup file version mismatch: scale-out backup repository rescan is required.

What does Orphaned and Imported indicate next to Disk in Veeam Backup and Replication under Home tab? 

When attempting the restore I get the log into Microsoft with the device code and it connects fine, hit next and veeam errors out saying Failed to open mailbox: gives the name Mailbox does not exist. I can guarantee the mailbox does exist.

Hello. The question concerns the display of repository capacity in the Veeam user interface:In the EMC DD console, the capacity is displayed in TiB and is equal to 166.7 TiB. In the Veeam UI, after adding EMC DD as a repository, the same capacity is displayed, but with the TB label.If the size of repository is displayed in TB, then it should be approximately 182.5 TB.Is this a Veeam UI error?  

Hello everyone.Am not sure if this is the write place to ask this..I forgot the encryption password i have set for my veeam backups, and i want to access the veeamBackup database to get the encrypted password and decrypt it as the online manual says. But as soon as i login to the database with sql server studio with the windows authentication settings, the Veeambackup is not accessible. The sa user is not active. This manual here ‘How to install Veeam Backup and Replication 11 Community Edition with a dedicated SQL Server | Veeam Community Resource Hub’ is exactly the same as my setup, but as soon as i get to the part there i am suppose to open the database VeeamBackup to see the tables etc, i get an error ‘The database VeeamBackup is not accessible’. Also added a screenshot below to show it.Any help on what am i doing wrong?Thank you  

hello,I would like to know, can we use backup copy to SOBR repository as a target ? Thank You

Hello, Thanks,My question is about Veeam catching memory errors during the backup itself.Sure, sometimes ECC can catch that.For example, Let’s say Veeam:Reads a sector from disk into memory. Whilst that sector is in memory, the memory is corrupted. Veeam writes that corrupted sector to the backup file.A Health check would not catch that.Does Veeam have a way to catch that, by re-reading the source sector again or some other mechanism?Thanks much,David   

Hello, I will need to migrate my Veeam Backup & Replication (v12) installation to a new server because my current server is 2012 R2 and it’s not supported anymore as you know.My new server (virtual) will be a Windows 2016 and I want to migrate my Veeam B&R install the proper way in order to avoid loosing any “block change tracking” or things like that and have my backups and replications running the same as before on the new server because I have around 25 TB of data to backup and replicate and if Veeam needs to re-read the entire volume (instead of “change blocks”) that would be 48+ hours lost! 😵 Thank you!!

So I’m am basically a day or two away from taking the time and going through and disabling the backup cache across all of my customers, it causes way too many problems. But thought I’d try asking here as a last resort since Veeam’s support seems useless as usual and my R&D forum posts aren’t getting any responses. I have had various cache related issues, especially since the ridiculously buggy V12 update, but here this past week it’s been especially bad. I have about 20 computers, that I know of right now, which are failing to upload the backup cache to the VCC server. As such these computers have not been backing up. At first I thought maybe they just needed some time to catch up or something, but it’s been over a week now and they’re not even modifying the files in the VCC repository. (Side note, yes, I did go look at the files, because it’s useful, even though Veeam says there’s no reason I should ever need to look at the files.)Seems there’s numerous different errors and behavi

veeam agent for linux run very slow on ubuntu 22.04 ltsbackup client is running virtual on virtualbox linux hostbackup client has installed zammad and elastcsearch      Duration:           13:13:00         Processed:          12.2 GB (100%)     Processing rate:    311.6 KB/s       Read:               12.2 GB     Bottleneck:         Target           Transferred:        3.2 GB (3.9x)      Time             Action                                  Duration      16:30:05         Starting full backup to Repository_1               ↑      16:30:05         Active full is forced                              │      16:30:07         Backing up BIOS bootloader on /dev/sda  00:00:51   │      16:30:58         Backed up sda 12.2 GB at 270.6 KB/s     13:10:36   │      05:41:34 (+1)    Backing up summary.xml                  00:00:30   │      05:42:07 (+1)    Releasing snapshot                      00:00:01   ▒      05:42:10 (+1)    Processing finished at 2023-04-02 03...            ↓  another ubuntu 22.

for a customer I have Veeam 12 installed and as primary Repository an Ubuntu Server with the possibility to configure immutability, as secondary I have a Gen4 HPE StoreOnce with also the possibility to configure immutability, where do you advise me to make immutability backups, on the Primary or Secondary Repository or on both ? (the two Repositories are in two different locations)

Hello, Thanks,For the linux hardened repository, Windows Agent Backups (volume and file) complete successfully.However, Hyper-V fails.Windows.Server.DataCenter.Evaluation.Edition.2022.21H2VBR server - 12.0.0.1420 P20230178The backup repository is linux hardened, located over the internet, not local.Note: for this linux machine, I made sure ping from repo -> VBR work ;winkThe backup repository location is a mounted SMB share.Given the error is `Failed to make the backup file immutable: Inappropriate ioctl for device`,my small brain thinks ALL immutable backups would fail, not just Hyper-V?Please advise? Queued for processing at 11/5/2023 12:25:15 PM  Required backup infrastructure resources have been assigned  VM processing started at 11/5/2023 12:25:20 PM  VM size: 127 GB (5.4 GB used)  VM is now in the required state for processing  Preparing to create snapshot  Guest processing skipped (VM is powered off)  Creating VM recovery checkpoint (mode: Crash consistent)  Storage initializ

I’m using VEEAM 12.0.0.1420.I’ve created a backup on a RDX drive with the option ‘This repository is backed by rotated drives’.Then i created a bootable recovery media → USB stickStarting machine from USB stick and open wizard ‘Volume Level Restore’Backup location is fine, full backupStarting progress will show the following lines:OK Loading backup filesOK Restore process started …BAD Restore failed: The requested security package does not existBAD Saving restore logs Error: Unable to save recovery logs to target repository. To do …Please advise.THX Reinhard

Hello, I have a small vm, 5.4GiB in size.Non-instant restore works fine, after restore completes, can boot into the vm and use it.Whereas, instant restore fails, can boot into vm but it, not able to use it.Host:windows.server.datacenter.evaluation.edition.2022.21H2VBAR server - 12.0.0.1420 P20230178The repository is linux non-hardened, located over the internet, not local.Looks like instant restore creates the required files including the .vhdxLooks correct from hyperv manager.but the vm will not boot correctly [ 6903075986]  /├── [ 1086624914]  gparted│   ├── [    4292475]  Snapshots│   │   ├── [          0]  31D5C4AB-9443-43F4-8088-740728378880│   │   ├── [      45092]  31D5C4AB-9443-43F4-8088-740728378880.VMRS│   │   ├── [      52567]  31D5C4AB-9443-43F4-8088-740728378880.vmcx│   │   └── [    4194816]  31D5C4AB-9443-43F4-8088-740728378880.vmgs│   └── [ 1082332439]  Virtual Machines│       ├── [          0]  41bdd5db-8ed7-4108-a2b7-daa85ee08bda│       ├── [      60197]  41bdd5db-8ed7

Helloour NAS had a problem and the content was wipe out.  So I need to start over with the first full backup.What should be the correct actions to be done? I did a new full backup with success but the Veeam database still show old entries (and I understand that) need you advise thanks

Hi, I’m trying to back up a VM running on a standalone ESXi v8 host using Veeam B&R v12 Community edition.  When I set the job up it ran successfully but all subsequent (scheduled) backups fail with “Failed to create processing task for VM Sophos Firewall Error: No proxy available”.If I edit the job without changing anything (just applying the same settings) it will run.  Also, if I do the same with the VMWare Proxy object or the veeam server object (in Backup Infrastructure > Managed Servers) it will also run.  In all cases it will only run the first time after applying the settings. Again, all subsequent runs fail.The veeam ‘server’ is an i3 8GB Windows 10 22H2 x64 PC.  What looks to be the root cause is an entry in the job backup log that says:[ProxyDetector] VMware host API version is V800. Skipping not x64 proxies[ProxyDetector] VMware host API version is V800 and all available proxies are not x64 so we can not use it with such API versionI’m not sure what to do with this;

Hello, at my home lab, i have a home server running VBAR community edition with the BR(Backup Repository) on the same windows server.I have a storagebox account with hetzner, which allows smb over internet.I have created a BR using that smb share and it works great.Not sure if I am violating the community license?and that bring up another issue, I could rent a cheap vm from hetzner and install a linux hardened repository?

Hello I would like to know if the Veeam installation process enable xp_cmdshell under MSSQL

Hello,One of our customers uses VBRv12 on premise with Azure an Repository. They have about 2TB of data backed up locally and via backup copy jobs to an Azure Blob Repo.We were very baffled to notice that at the end of the month, the cost with transactions was matching the cost of the storage.I am looking for an advice on how to optimize the number of transactions other then reducing backup frequency.For a fact we checked his environment and he has 1server per job and 1 backup copy job per production job. I wonder if aggregating all in a single backup copy job towards Azure would address maybe this issue?We are also testing this scenario but to be relevant we need to run it for at least on week so if anyone ran into this please let me know.

hi team,hope everyone’s ok. just wanted to ask and get some ideas/suggestions regarding retention policy on a backup copy job.first of all, i have on-site a Qnap for local backups and on a remote site another one for copy jobs. local backups have their own retention policy while on remote i have different ones.from my understanding, backup copy works with forever forward incremental backups and when the retention policy kicks in, i get a full backup of the backup job.so my question is: shall i add on the retention policy i have set on each backup copy job the “keep certain full backups longer for archival purposes” with a different duration?many thanks