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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

Not really a Question, just sharing and curious if anyone else has thoughts on it. In my experience Veeam’s Support asks for incredibly excessive data, asking for the same logs over and over, asking for logs that don’t seem at all related, and asking for copies of databases on VBR servers.Some other people have shared privacy concerns with me about the behavior. Personally, I’m not fond of it, but accept it as a cost of using Veeam. From my perspective none of this should be necessary if the software itself was:A, less buggy to begin with.B, had actual useful error messages so I could tell what the problem was without involving support.C, had actual useful error messages so that Veeam’s support could tell what was wrong.Noting B and C are different because I can accept that Veeam’s support may know more than me about what an error message means. Though if B and C are different, then it’s a good time for me to mention that Veeam needs to publish their “internal documentation” publicly.

Good day Community -With Linux being more prevalant in environments, including Veeam supporting Linux within its deployment components, it is a bit cumbersome to manage all these devices individually. So my question for the Community today is → what centralized management tool(s) do you use to manage your Linux server footprint?..to update, push scripts, monitor, etc? I’m needing to update & even push a script (change) out to our Linux servers and don’t want to touch all of them individually. Any info you can provide is greatly appreciated.I did a little bit of searching before posting and saw a tool called Landscape which looks promising, but don’t know anything about it & open to hear anyone’s experience with it...or again..any tool. Thanks in advance!

Hello, I am looking for a method or script to run backup jobs on a custom schedule.The built-in scheduler seems very basic, and as a result, I have to run all jobs as incremental and then manually trigger a full every two weeks.I have searched the veeam scripts and forum, could not find an solution.so does anyone have a script or technique to run backups on a custom schedule?perhaps using windows task scheduler, powershell, python or any such way?Thanks much,David

Hello,For those who missed the information, there is a new snapshot mode for VSAN in vsphere 8. It looks promising for speed specially on large scale infra with vsan, it will obvisously reduce the time needed for snapshot processing on the backup jobs.Scalable, High-Performance Native Snapshots in the vSAN Express Storage Architecture | VMwareCan’t wait to test it in production to compare real number from the field!If anyone already tested it, i will curious to have a feedback.

I want one Tape full backup per month, do I need to configure the Media Pool for Incremental Backups?

Hi all.Trying to run a Backup Copy on a Dell T110-II with WinServer 2012 and Veeam Bkp&Rst v. 12 to a RD1000 cartridge drive (Sata).The drive works perfectly copying small and huge files from windows explorer, but doesn’t work at all with CopyBackup.After starting the job it creates a 4-5kb file on the corrected created folder and then hungs with the following message: 27/10/2023 02.14.11 :: Error: The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error.Asynchronous request operation has failed. [requestsize = 524288] [offset = 4096]The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error.Asynchronous request operation has failed. [requestsize = 524288] [offset = 528384]Failed to open storage for read/write access. Storage: [H:\Backups\Backup Copy Job 1\Backup Job 1\W22-APPS.vm-1005D2023-10-27T021229_94BF.vbk]. Any idea? (RD1000 drivers and tools are installed)Thank you! 

Hi Team,Do we have any mechanism in VBR to transport all logs to external Syslog Servers?  I do understand we save most of the logs on Installer folder but my requirement is to automatically transport all the logs to external syslog server.Regards,Sunny 

Hi everyone, greetings…I am not sure the math behind for this settings I seen the default is Forwards Incrementals with Weekly FullsSo mean Mon-Sat incremental x6, Sun full x1Daily 30 which keeps 26 incremental, 4 fullMonthly 3 which keeps 3 fullYearly 3 which keeps 3 full For full I think it’s related to ReFS, but not sure how it become 9.92TBFor incremental backup I calculated as 30TB *5% *30days *50% = 22.5TB (somewhat different)Weekly 0 because GFS set 0Monthly 3 copies = (30 + 30.25 + 30.5) * 50% reduction = 45.375 TB if w/o ReFS (but I tested it is 39.24TB if w/o ReFS in sizer) - I tried it by index 30+30.24+30.48 *50% = 45.36TB also different Btw, what are the ReFS ~50% compression comes from? any docs for that? And lastly for yearly (30+33+36.3)*50% reduction = 49.65TB w/o ReFS (very close to calculator this time but not exactly) And why the ReFS does not significant in yearly ?Turning on /off does not affect the yearly sizing much If ReFS turned off 

Anyone using Veeam Enterprise Manager have issues with the API URL?  We use a custom built tool that connects to VEM (VBR behind the scene) and provisions customers for our VCC.  I have one server that cannot get to the API for some reason and shows the below connection reset message.I have upgraded the VEM to the latest patch from July and ensure everything with FW, etc. is configured correctly.  Any suggestions appreciated.Veeam Enterprise Manager API URL - Connection Reset Message 

Hi everyone,I am thinking of a design like that A tape library with x3 FC drives (say XYZ), connected to SAN switches Then the SAN switches connecting to 4 servers (say ABCD)Normally, the tape drives are backup up servers ABCWhich mean drive X-A, drive Y-B, driveZ-CWhen one of the servers down, (say B), server D will take up the role become X-A, Y-D, Z-Cwill it work and if Veeam support setting like that?

I have on the VBR a copy job, a backup copy job to a hardened repository and a tape job. Now for VBM the customer also wants the data to be copied on the primary repository, then a copy on the hardened repository and finally on tape, how can I configure this?

Hello, I’m new to Veeam. Are there any API’s I can use for Veeam for Salesforce. I could not find anything in Documentations. Only for other Veeam products. ThanksRainer