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In addition to backing up my ESXi virtual machines, I’d like to back the entire host up. How may this be done? Thanks!

dear all, I have problem (eject tap and export tape not working on Veeam backup)this happened with all tapes 

We’ve been running VBR on a 2012 R2 server for a long time but it’s time to get off of 2012.Is there a reason to keep running Veeam on a server? We’ve grown over the years and I have started putting VBR on Windows 10 workstations for remote offices and that has worked well.Do we need need to keep VBR on a server or is it save to migrate this over to a workstation?Interested in hearing why?Thanks!

Hello everyone,some backup files were manually deleted from D:\ storage (ReFS) andnow backup jobs don’t work.Failed to pre-process the job Error: A data integrity checksum error occurred. Data in the file stream is corrupt.Failed to read data from the file [D:\[...].8D2023-07-26T204743_9167.vbk].--tr:Error code: 0x00000143--tr:Failed to parse metadata stored in slot [528384]--tr:Unable to load metadata snapshot. Slot: [528384].--tr:Failed to load metastore--tr:Failed to load metadata partition. Delayed loading: [0]Failed to open storage for read/write access.We tried to create new repository (on the same storage) - didn’t help.ReFS partition was formatted (yes, backup data are lost) - didn’t help.The LUN on QNAP was re-created and we are getting the same error.Yesterday I tired to uninstall Veeam and I made a fresh install on VM.I didn’t help as well (note: I’ve removed %programdata% files, etc.).It seems there are still some old parts of backup chains, surprising...I didn’t find any s

I was able to install the Windows Agent to a Win10 desktop.  Looks like Veeam backed up the files to the share folder I used for the job. I am trying to now restore this backup to a Hyper-V host. When I go into Restore using the Veeam Backup and Rep app, I don’t see a way to choose the machine or  Agent backup? Any tips or suggestions would be super helpful. Thanks

Hi folks,My wanderings in the wonderful continue. I need to move an M365 repo from a REFS drive (as far as I know this is not good, NTFS is the best practice) to a new drive. I have read on the forums that the Move-VBOEntityData powershell is NOT the way to go. Instead this is the procedure: 1. Disable all backup jobs related to the repository you want to move.2. Stop all the Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 services before moving any data.3. Copy the backup repository data to the backup repository location on the new repository location (using robocopy for example).4. Start the Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 services.5. Add the new repository with the moved data.6. Open backup job settings and specify to use the new repository Any comments or advice from folks who have been through this. I would like to avoid any pain since I had a wisdom tooth pulled this week and have enough already :)  cheers 

Hi! Please, for testing and lab purposes, we need to deploy 02 x local K8s clusters using OKD (Origin Kubernetes Distribution) - the community distribution of OpenShift - and perform integration with Kasten. Later, we can migrate to the OpenShift production environment. Has any community member completed this deployment and integration (OKD +K10)? If so, could you share some guidelines/recommendations? We want to host the solution, at this time, on vSphere-based VMs. Thanks for everyone's help and attention! Thanks so much, Luiz Eduardo Serrano.

Hi Guys, lot of my customer has Veeam as virtual machine in VMware and using the virutal disk as repostitory (.vdmk), in my opinion - its old concept. One of my customer has new Storage Array and Physical backup server. The storage is direct connected to backup server via 10 GbE iSCSI.  Is there some steps how to migrate virtual veeam (also with backup repository) to brand new physical HW ?  Thx.Tomas

Hello Everyone,I have question here, If I have Veeam VBR v11 using SQL express as DB, and I want to migrate and upgrate it to V12 Postgres, is it applicable, and how?

we currently use azure as object storage and would like to achieve immutability on the backups.veeam does not support “out of the box” immutability to azure. i would like to know if any of these would work or if anyone has better ideas.Immutable blob storage on folder level Enable soft delete for blobs (or container) Enable versioning for blobs (or container) Enable point-in-time restore for containers setup Object replication in azure for the storage account thanks

Hello to all,I would need advices from you guys on how to approach to this setup the best way possible.We have two locations. Both locations have 64TB Synology NAS and also on one side we have one additional NAS for air-gapped solutoin. Now we would like to implement cloud storage and want to ask you guys what would be the best solution in configuration of this scenario.Scale-out repository or similar.At the moment we are doing backups on the one location (Vienna, Austria) and doing Backup Copy Jobs via WAN Acceleration to other location (Novi Sad, Serbia)Would like to configure it to best practices and in the most secured way possible. 

I have got two clusters added in multi-cluster dashboard, while I try to add 3rd cluster (present in Azure) it failed with message "Could not get Kasten namespace in cluster" 

I’m new to the community and to Veeam.Does anyone know of a report that will show what I listed? Or at least some of it?Server All dBs for the server Backup time Time backup took to run Type of backup Restore points Success, fail, warning Error messages Enabled\disabled jobThanks much and look forward to contributing once I get a handle on using Veeam.-Mark

Hi Fellow Hubians! So can someone explain to me the reason for the upgrade backup chain format?https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/backup_copy_change_type.html?ver=120&_gl=1*wzxbvg*_ga*MTMwNTg0NDUyNC4xNjg3ODAyODk4*_ga_PMJS81E58L*MTY5MDIyNDYzNS4xMDAuMS4xNjkwMjI1ODYyLjI3LjAuMA As I understand this changes the chain from having one single metadata file to separate for the per-vm backups. I can see this being a good idea from the separate and conquer point of view (or deal with less hassle if one of the metadata files gets corrupted, so if you only have one, it is much less fun) but are there any other reasons for the move?

Morning All Just moving over from Hornet / Altaro to Veeam 12 Community Edition. Set up is in Production have 3 Hosts with 9 VM’s between them. Mainly Server 2016 but one Linux and one Server 2022.All backup every 12 hours onsite and then Backup copy offsite.Offsite copy is onto a different VM Host with enough oomph and memory / storage to run whole lot in an emergency although PAINFULLY Slowly.Anyhow have done a test restore and all Server 2016’s and Linux come up fine (Need a couple of re-boots to recognise new Network etc to talk properly to each other. Server 2022 comes up will not boot due to the Key Protector could not be unwrapped as obviously a different host with different TPM Etc.If I kill the VM but keep the Virtual HDDs and create a new Virtual machine with same settings it all works but is there any way round this?

I know it’s late on a Friday, but I wanted to get this out of my head and off my mind before I forgot.  For our internal backup infrastructure, I’m the proud owner of a new Dell PowerEdge R550 with lots of space on local disk.  It’s going to replace a Synology RackStation that is slowly dying and is several years old.  The new server also has dual 25Gb connectivity (and dual 1Gb connectivity) that will allow me direct ISCSI access to our PowerStore 500T array.  This server will be the primary backup repository for our primary site. I am aware that if set this server up as a VHR/LHR, I cannot utilize direct storage access because functions required as a proxy server are not available when the server is hardened.  If I choose to forgo the direct storage access capabilities as a proxy server and move forward with a LHR, are there any caveats of using a LHR as your primary repo?  I don’t really NEED direct storage access.  There’s not that much data to backup every day, and I can still use

ciao, vorrei raccogliere qualche opinione / riscontro sul “dimensionamento” del veeam server. Nel senso che, in contesti molti grossi (scusate il tecnicismo 😉), dove ci sono tante VM e soprattutto tantissimi Job forse sarebbe meglio avere più di una istanza di VBR… oppure no? This is the question.In un contesto dove sto lavorando, c’è un VBR che impiega 45 minuti a fare un backup della configurazione, producendo un file da oltre 2 GByte. Sarebbe una buona idea “segmentarlo”? Che ne pensate? Grazie in anticipo.P.S.: naturalmente in un contesto frazionato diventa più importante avere l’Enterprise Manager (spesso trascurato) e ONE ben configurati per meglio tenere sotto controllo il tutto.

Hi there,I am new to Veeam.  I created and completed my first backup job and I’d like to now remove a specific .vbk file and a specific .vib file from that completed job.  Is this even possible?  I looked into the Remove-VBRBackupFile command  but it seems to relate to “missing” backup files, which is not the case.Thank you!-sul.

I’m using Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 version 4.0 and want to copy all of the OneDrive data from users into their new accounts $DestinationSubfolder = 'Restored Work'$VeeamBackupJobName = 'BMC_M365_Data'$M365Credentials = Get-Credential$Job = Get-VBOjob -Name $VeeamBackupJobName$Session = Start-VEODRestoreSession -Job $Job -LatestState$UserToRestore = Get-VEODUser -Session $Session -Name 'Joe Bloggs'$UserDocuments = Get-VEODDocument -User $UserToRestoreif($UserDocuments){ $TargetUserName = 'Joe Bloggs 2' Restore-VEODDocument -User $UserToRestore -RestoreChangedItems -RestoreDeletedItems -Credential $M365Credentials -TargetUser $TargetUserName -TargetFolder $DestinationSubfolder}Else{ 'No OneDrive content found.'}Get-VEODRestoreSession | Stop-VEODRestoreSession The commands return this error though:“Restore-VEODDocument : Failed to find Online OneDrive library for: Joe Bloggs 2”I’ve added the second account to the original backup job to ensure Veeam can see it. Any id

I noticed VBR v12 RTM removed the " Install a new instance" selection from the Installation setup with the Microsoft SQL Server.An error message will pop up if the Microsoft SQL Server or Microsoft SQL Server Express does not install locally or remotely.That means I need to install Microsoft SQL or SQL express before installing Veeam Backup and Replication manager server (I knew v12 supports PostgreSQL) if I would like to work with Microsoft SQL? or is it a bug? 

Hi, I'm trying to install lasten in an openshift environment, the pods mostly start but the catalog pod gives me the ImagePullBackOff status, checking the log gives me a timeout on a URL https://pkg-containers.githubsercontent .com/ghcr1/blobs/sha256, in the gateway pod it shows errors, they tell me that it could be because the github.com URL appears in the log, the network and security area tells me that the urls are blocked that contain github in their structure, my question is is there any way to install with another method or alternative, is there a list of the urls that I need to carry out the installation, Regards. 

Hi, Has anyone experienced VBR spinning up huge amounts of instances of a process, and consuming all RPC ports? I suspect it’s AV related due to the customer’s AV change occurring at a similar time, but we’ve got the rules in place to exempt directories and binaries. I’ve seen VBR have port exhaustion exactly once before, that was a VCC installation and the firewall was half-closing sessions and Veeam wasn’t doing a good job detecting this and freeing up ports subsequently. This scenario is different however.VBR server that is only for job orchestration (all backup & repo roles are on physical appliances, proxy & repo roles uninstalled from VBR). Server was up for less than 6 hours yesterday, and it spawned 18,000 threads of VeeamTransportSvc, all looping back to itself. But the server ran out of available ports and/or buffer space and then normal connections such as backup repository availability checks were failing, causing VBR to mark the repositories as offline, then causin

I am wondering if anyone has worked with cmdlets that take a SharedKey parameter in VBR PowerShell, and noticed that some do not take SecureString as a parameter. I’ve identified *-VBRAzureBlobAccount but it seems that Amazon and Google are in a similar situation. However, I’ve also compared to VBO cmdlets, and the equivalent VBOAzureBlobAccount does take SecureString for the SharedKey parameter.By comparison, the *-VBRCredentials cmdlets permit either a clear text string for Password or a PSCredential object (which by the way uses a SecureString for the password). While SecureString has known limitations, it seems a little odd for these *-VBR*Account cmdlets to not use SecureString for the SharedKey. It seems to limit the ability to securely prompt a user running an install script for the key from the cloud storage provider via Read-Host -AsSecureString and have it seamlessly pass to the cmdlets.Is there a way I’m missing? Or does anyone have a sample for how to securely handle the pr

Hi,I would like to know if someone else had a issue after upgrading V11 to V12.The machine itself is also added to a Physical Veeam group who is taking backup of himself.Since the update it mentions that there are communication issues between both (same) servers.I have a case with Veeam, but they do not respond already for 2 days, what is odd.I do not want to investigate myself any longer, just curious if there is a simular case or experience with it with other members. Thank you!

Hello all,I am looking for a "simple" way to generate a notification when a backup or copy job is edited in VBR. The idea at the beginning is just to get an info (mail), not to rate the modification, if it’s a good or bad modification. Examples of bad changes would be reducing retention, changing encryption password, etc.Ideas how to realize this? Native in VBR i think there is nothing, Veeam One? External monitoring? Script?Many greetingsMatze