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I downloaded the Veeams Agent for Windows and went through the setup process for a full volume backup. I followed the online manual to set the options. However, there are some questions that remain, and I was wondering if anyone could help?The first question I have is that the backup file size is almost 1TB (or about 30%) smaller than the size of the volume to be backed up. And this is not just empty space, the volume had 3.6TB used space, of which only 2.7TB was backed up. What is the reason for this? Looking at the compression ratio, it doesn’t seem sufficient to explain the discrepancy. E-mail summary report​​​​​The second question is actually related. The backup I made was of my C: drive, and I want to know if I were to use the full volume backup for restoring to a completely new drive, would it restore the drive exactly including the boot sectors (i.e. I would simply be able to swap in the new drive and the computer would boot and run as before)?  Below I show a screenshot of the

Hello,Are there any advices on how to have better performance for our “air-gapped” or “immutable” backup on site.We have two locations, Austria and Serbia.VBR Server is located in Austria where our critical infrastructure resides also.Veeam is configured to do regular Backups to the Synology NAS located also in Austria.After that we configure to do Backup Copy Jobs (immidiate) from Austria to Serbia.In Serbia we have one main Synology NAS and other one also Synology for air-gapped.I would try to do something like this:1. Configure Power Schedule on NAS to be powered only on weekends.2. Configure Backup Copy Jobs and chose source as Serbia backups that are already copied from Austria and send it to the smaller NAS in Vienna. There is also few other solutions, to automate this with rsync if possible, to manual copy from one nas to another, or just to create regular backup jobs but then it will go trough IPSec and it will be a lot slower.Is there any option to connect them maybe directly

Hey all,We have Veeam (12.0.0.1420) backup jobs with a secondary target to tape.I noticed that the tape jobs were saying they took 21 hours to complete which is strange.  Seems that the tape job is starting before the backup job.We have the vm backups start at 9pm and they take about 2 hours to complete.  The tape backup starts at 9am.Example: I saw the tape backup start at 9am on a Monday, then wait until the vm backup that starts at 9pm that night finish.Not sure how it got out of whack.  The backups are still working I guess but is there a way to reset the timing?  Delete and re-add the backup job?  Maybe just re-add the secondary target to the backup job? thanksjc

Hello Veeam community 🖐🏻I have a question regarding Backup Job Encryption and Backup Copy Job Encryption.What is the general advices on this.I have different encryption passwords for each Backup Job.The question is here, do I need to enable encryption for Backup Copy Job or it will use the original encryption that we already have configured on regular Backup Job’s. 

Hi All, Looking to check if my thinking is correct for this Invoking DR Scenario with the assumption that the Veeam console config backup is available to the IT Team outside the on prem issue. The solution is: on premises there is a NAS as VEEAM repo connected into a hyperv Veeam windows VM. Backups target NAS as performance tier in SOBR then tier to Azure BLOB via COPY every night. The Scenario is: the whole on premises has failed and we want to ‘Direct restore to Azure’ from the BLOB beam backups. My Solution: I believe you would need to deploy an Azure IaaS windows VM, install Veeam Console, then restore the Veeam config file. Enter credentials to connect to Azure account, then you would be able to see the Veeam backups in BLOB, right click and select to restore to Azure Is this correct? Thanks    

Guys,I’m trying to create a new content in the “Blog and Podcast” section, but looks like I reach some limit. I don’t know if it’s a characther limit (around 1650 words) or image (50 images).Anyone know if we have a limit in the platform to create a single post?

Hello Veeam community,Is there any best practices when implementing these two into work?Currently we have it setup as a SMB share folders and Veeam is sending backups to it.I did a little bit of research and saw that people are using ISCSI and connecting Synology drive to Windows Server and using it like that. As I can see they are using ReFS File System.What would be the best optimization when we have Veeam + Synology in our Environment.Veeam B&R and our main Synology are located in the same location within same subnet.After that main Backup is done we have a Backup Copy Job trough IPSec to our Branch Office where we also have Synology NAS with SMB share.With ISCSI I saw that people are using FastClone and I’m not familiar with it at all. What is the use of it?Any advices are welcomed 😀

I’m having an issue with VBR v12, after updating NAS server and the corresponding veeam backup gateway.All backups that are configured to use the NAS server take a really long time to complete. For comparison, jobs taking 5 minutes now take over 60 hours (!). I’ve tried to reconfigure the veeam gateway (which is a requirement for NAS repositories), installing a new linux distro, reconfigure backup jobs, created a few test backup jobs with small VMs and still takes a long time.The stage of “Initializing Disk” takes hours and then copying data takes ages. This is not a issue with NFS itselft as I can copy large files to and from servers, any direction, with considerable speed.As a note, NAS server is a simple Turnkey NAS (debian 10 based) and veeam gateway is a Ubuntu 22.04.

Is there any best practices when implementing these two into work?Currently we have it setup as a SMB share folders and Veeam is sending backups to it.I did a little bit of research and saw that people are using ISCSI and connecting Synology drive to Windows Server and using it like that. As I can see they are using ReFS File System.What would be the best optimization when we have Veeam + Synology in our Environment.Veeam B&R and our main Synology are located in the same location within same subnet.After that main Backup is done we have a Backup Copy Job trough IPSec to our Branch Office where we also have Synology NAS with SMB share.With ISCSI I saw that people are using FastClone and I’m not familiar with it at all. What is the use of it?Any advices are welcomed 😀

HelloReinstalling Veeam how do I get my license back as my license expiration date is in 2024. Thanks,

I have noticed that if I go to Veeam Backup and Replication and look at our SOBR’s Space Usage Graph under the Summary tab, it shows just one day (e.g. it shows just Sat 9x instead of different days). This happened when we upgraded to version 12.  Monthly Summary shows one set of datesWhat setting if any should I change? I have updated to the latest patch and still shows the same. Version 11 did not give me this issue.

I’m working on a server that someone else setup, so I don’t know much on it’s config sorry, but it’s Veeam backup & replication 12.I’m trying to restore an ad object, so i’ve found our AD server in the backup list, went to Application items and chose active directory.When it brings up our AD, I can find the deleted user, and when I choose to restore objects it asks for credentials to connect to: ad.mydomain.com.auI’ve tried all my credentials including the domain admin one, and it just keeps erroring with the message: The supplied credential is invalid.I’ve tried with just the username, with domain/username, with username@domain and it always shows credential is invalid.Any ideas?

Hello everyone!I am preparing a documentation in setting up the Veeam Self Service plugin for vCloud Director version 10.3, we will use it as a guide for our lab environment soon.  Can anyone please provide the port numbers and protocols required between vCloud Director, VEM & VBR. Thank you

Good morning, I’m new to veeam and my company would like to perform a health assessment on our existing veeam infrastructure. Unfortunately I’m learning veeam on production :) since our veeam engineer left the company.Do you have any consultants\companies that you can refer me to?  Again, our goal is to get an idea of our current backup infrastructure health\risks and get a recommendations of what needs to be reconfigured\improved\fixed.  thank you againSergey

Has anyone community notifications missing starting from August 1st?

Hi, My last 2 cases are not going smooth with the Veeam support.My first case was regarding this topic and I did finally solved it myself. Then I get respons with the question how I did solved it!My new case posted 1st of aug is still in status new. Is it really because of the holidays, or are there under-staffed? I know, the severity is low, as it is not urgent, but normally I get a respons faster.The question I did ask them:My Veeam server is on a seperated VLAN, other than my ESXi servers. My storage is DirectSAN accessible. Only If I use Instant Recovery or SureBackup, the NFS mount to backup repository (local storage on server) is going over the Firewall, and I want to prevent that. So I did create on my ESXi another kernel adapter in the same lan of Veeam and yes, the connection with NFS running trough that kernel and the mount is successfully, I can even browse, but Veeam referring in the job to the NFS via FQDN what is on another IP and therefore fails as the ESXi is communicat

is it possible to extract a single file from the most recent backup of a hyperV VM from a commandline utility?   It tried “extract.exe” and it appears to only extract EVERYTHING and actually restores the vhdx file.  Which I would then have to mount the vhdx somehow and extract the file I need. I’d like to run this from cmdline on a daily schedule. Any help greatly appreciated.

Hi all. I am quite new to Veeam. I was trying to set my laptop up to be backed up daily and at one point I selected VM as an option. I did eventually get it set up as an Agent Backup, but now I get these emails below every day and I can’t find anywhere to delete or remove anything so I quit getting this message. Any help?[Failed] Backup Policy: Agent Backup ….. (1 VMs) 1 failed

Olá comunidade!  Me deparei com o erro abaixo a criar um novo SCALE-OUT.O motivo aparente era jobs simplesmente JOBS em andamento. Podem ser do tipos: Instant Replica Replication Backup Copy Backup JobsTambém importante validar se o SOBR está como:Per VM Per job No meu caso eu aguardei todos os jobs finalizarem e já consegui criar o novo SCALE-OUT. Obrigado! 

Dear Veeam Team, Please help. Can Veeam Backup and Replication v12 support LTO6 tape library. Regards,VMware.Sorro

hi, could Veeam do backup office 365 and store backup data to GCP object storage, because I can’t find GCP object storage type while adding object storagethank you

ciao, volevo sapere se qualcuno di noi italici ha delle esperienze nella protezione di ambienti SAP con Veeam. Onestamente ho googlato parecchio ma più dei manuali ufficiali non ho trovato molto.Al momento i miei dubbi principali sono:il plugin sap hana si può installare solo dalla macchina SAP o è possibile anche aggiungere un protection group e installarlo da console? (credo di sì, ovvero si possa fare da console, ma nella documentazione non ho trovato questa modalità)   il plugin va installato sulle macchine che hanno il DB a bordo? è sufficiente su una per cluster DB? immagino di sì ma anche su questo non mi pare di aver trovato in doc.più in generale mi piacerebbe appunto condividere qualcosa sulle nostre esperienze in merito. (prometto di farlo con le mie al più presto). Grazie! 

Boa tarde a todos ! Fiz meu primeiro deploy do Veeam for AWS, porém surgiu um problema no qual não sei onde cometi o erro. O Veeam me retorna a seguinte informação: The security token included in the request is invalid Nisso, o job não executa, eu não consigo editar e nem validar nada dentro do Veeam. Alguem consegue me dar um norte aqui para fazer o troubleshoot ?   

Hey guys,I am getting ready to deploy VEEAM V12 into my environment (finally - took 8+ months)I am needing to delve into RBAC controls and granular access rights via AD  anyone have any advice or a direction they could point me in? thanks in advance 

Hi All,Apologies if I am asking in the wrong place, but using VBR V11 Community edition.I want to simulate a DR event. I have taken a Windows  Agent → Entire computer full backup to a USB Drive.Now i want to restore just some files from this USB Backup to a new server ( where the same edition VBR is installed.From the USB Drive on the new server , double clicking on the .VBK file launches Veeam, but my concern is the following window just shows “Restore”. I Don’t want to overwrite the entire server from this backup?  Does “Restore” actually start overwriting files, or does this proceed to show more options  ( and would be better named “Next”, rather than “Restore” ) ??Many thanks in advance.