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The veeamma looks at the /etc/os_release file and if it doesn't match with one of 3 debian based Linux distros they it won't install, even if it's still running the save versions of apt and etc... what's the logic behind that design choice?

Hi Team,Got a VM running on a ESXi host. Need to add additional disk space to C: drive. However, couldn’t increase it any further using the VM properties under storage. The provisioned disk capacity is 230GB and the total disk utilization is closer to 230GB as well. The machine is thin provisioned. The connected SAN storage got free available space too. Just wondering the best option to add more disk capacity to C: drive please?Appreciate your feedback.kind regards,Andrew

I am using Veeam backup for Microsoft 365 to backup our entire Microsoft 365 Tenant, the backups keeps stopping for me to authenticate and I would like to know if that can be automated or add a way around it. Pop up i am getting is similar to this on the Veeam Backup for microsoft 365. note: imagine is just for illustration 

Hello,what are the minimum permissions that linux user needs to have to be able to do file level restore using Veeam?Setup is as it follows:I have Rocky Linux 9.5 OS VM and I have Win Server host where Veeam is located. The goal is to be able to do file level restore from that Linux server. The thing is I need user for it.What I would like to do, I only want the user to be able to do restore from one specific directory, I don’t want him to be able to see anything else or do anything else, except the restore part, what is the best way to achieve this?

We would like to clarify a few points about offloading backups to Azure Storage.1. Does the Veeam application support Azure Entra ID for offloading backups to Azure Storage?2. Can Azure Entra ID be used as an alternative to Shared Key access for connecting to Azure Blob Storage?3. Are there any limitations or challenges associated with integrating Azure Entra ID? If so, is there a roadmap for addressing these in future Veeam releases?

Hello,we have VMs on VMware platform.During VM restore they are removed from affinity rule from cluster level like host rule “should run” or “separate VM”. So in case A side is down is switched into side B and like proxy servers they cannot be 2 on the same esx host, so there is rule separate.As far as i know, only vSphere tags are restore.Is there any option how to restore these rules as well?thank you

A new vulnerability in PostgreSQL was published today - CVE-2023-39418https://www.postgresql.org/support/security/CVE-2023-39418/All versions < 15.4 are affected. Version 15.4 was published at August 8th 2023.https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-154-149-1312-1216-1121-and-postgresql-16-beta-3-released-2689/ Does Veeam advise to update PostgreSQL on VBR servers to version 15.4?

I just setup a new Windows 2025 Standard server and tried to install VeeamAgentWindows_6.3.1.1074. Unfortunately after accepting EULA the installation starts, shows “migrating previous configuration” (which is a little bit strange, since this is a new Windows machine) and is then stuck at "Installing Veeam agent for Microsoft Windows".  C:\ProgramData\Veeam\Endpoint\DatabaseMigrationLog shows: [27.04.2025 22:25:03] <01> Info     [Migration] SQL CONFIGURATION PARAMETERS:[27.04.2025 22:25:03] <01> Info     [Migration] > Server=(local)[27.04.2025 22:25:03] <01> Info     [Migration] > ServerInstanceName=VeeamEndPoint[27.04.2025 22:25:03] <01> Info     [Migration] > ServerInstancePipeName=[27.04.2025 22:25:03] <01> Info     [Migration] > ServerInstancePort=-1[27.04.2025 22:25:03] <01> Info     [Migration] > DatabaseName=VeeamBackup[27.04.2025 22:25:03] <01> Info     [Migration] > User=current[27.04.2025 22:25:03] <01> Info  

We are getting an application that runs on MySQL and I need to know if & how Veeam can backup MySQL. So far I’ve found documentation on how to do this in Linux but not Windows. Im running VBR 12.3

How can I add new transactions to a DB without doing a full DB restore? Our DBA are trying to restore a DB to a new server. The DB is huge and the restore process takes several hours. Within those hours, there are new transactions coming in and being backed up using transaction logging. How can we add or restore those new transactions on top of the previously restored DB without doing another full restore using Veeam SQL Explorer? I tried several options but I always end up with the message below. Thanks again for your suggestions.

I need to migrate a bunch of Hyper-V VMs to a new Windows server for the first time. While researching different options I have seen some info online that Veeam can do this, but I can’t find clear instructions for VBR. Does anyone have any info or links on a guide? Or does this require additional Veeam software? I see various methods are available, but I’m getting into VBR and VBO and want to see what other tasks I can do with Veeam. Plus it seems like it may be an easy task with Veeam since we are already backing these up with VBR.

Hi, In a customer’s VBR 12.3.1.1139 server (free license) we are having some trouble achieving reliable backup times. It’s a big deduplicated file server (11TB of disks total) running on a Hyper-V VM. The software is installed on the host (WS 2022) and it backs up both host and vms. The backup repository is a QNAP NAS with 30TB of space connected via NFS with 10GB/s network. We tried having a job with periodic synthetic fulls and sometimes it took “only” 10 hours, but more often than not it would take more than 2 days.When this happens it seems to get “stuck” at a certain percentage so we cancel the job to leave room for it to continue making its daily backups.Same when merging backups in a forever incremental situation, sometimes it merges data in 3 hours, sometimes it takes 30, for the (presumably) same reason. The console says bottleneck is Target, but the NAS is pretty much new and it’s DEDICATED to backups only, there is nothing else there, the CPU does not work hard and the disk

升级到 veeam v12.3.1.113，但此客户端更新界面无法关闭。我该怎么办？

I have veeam latest version v12.3 and an existing redhat 9.3 server which I want to convert to a hardened repo. I know there are steps to setup a new server but this is an existing OS with the storage mounted already. I need to add all the STIG hardening etc so can someone share these steps before I add it as a hardened repo.thanks.

当前的 VBR 版本是 v12.1.156，我需要升级到最新版本的 veeam，即 v12.3.1.113，但它提示备份任务正在运行。我该怎么办？ 

VBR Migration to New Server Error when accessing User and Roles.Did a test migration from an old VBR to a new server. Most functions and configuration migrated successfully, just need to re-enter credentials for the cloud, storage (NAS and immutable). Backup jobs are also running successfully and configuration backups are working. However when I went to Users and Roles, I got the error below, “Failed to unprotect data:…..”. I thought initially, it was just the encryption so I enabled but still get the same error. What is causing this issue? Thanks.

I’ve been in the process of redesigning my Veeam network for the past month.  I can’t decide between a management/security domain for my Veeam components, or just going the workgroup route.  I consider our setup small and fairly basic: two VMware hosts in one location, and another in a backup location.Is a domain for Veeam that much safer?  I already have my network isolation setup and configured with VLANs, and I just feel like adding another domain to manage is a waste of hardware resources, licensing, and my time.I’ve read the Veeam Best Practice Guide “Workgroup or Domain?” chapter so many times, I think I can recite it from memory.I appreciate any thoughts that other Veeam experts have on this subject.  Especially for smaller setups like mine.

Received a notification from our NOC saying that the C drive was filling up, took a peek and noticed that there were a lot of log files in CheckpointRemoval but Im unsure if these are safe to delete or at the very least, zip up. Any help is appreciated!

We  want to confirm the process/reason they are seeing repeated connections every 3 minutes to our linux servers during the backups being performed by Veeam.  All linux servers have oracle and no redo logs configured  Erased the Ip address on the 3r column which i actually Ip address of Veeam server]$ last | grep "May 29"l   pts/4             Thu May 29 08:13   still logged inf pts/4             Thu May 29 06:53 - 06:53  (00:00)  Initial findings:Ip in the 3rd column    is Veeam server The started  and end reported time is backup scheduled timeConformed Backup processing time is  reported in logs . When backup is not running , I’ve checked on TestDB and the last login from Veeam was 07:49 – 07:52: and no 3 min repeated connections oracle pts/1 Thu May 29 07:49 - 07:52 (00:03)oracle pts/1 Thu May 29 07:46 - 07:49 (00:03)I need to know why Veeam is making the repeated connections during the backup and not just connecting and staying connected Is there a “keep alive” process or is the con

Hello,does anybody has usecase to backup VM by VBR1, vi copy job sent to offsite repository and read image from this repository and restore by VBR2? Environments are completely independent.My idea is to have script and copy to another folder and with another script make scan and import of images to have permanent solution.

Hello everyone,My Veeam B&R server is running on a Windows 10 VM and I’m about to migrate it to a Windows Server VM.  I’m going to take the opportunity to migrate to PostgreSQL for the backend at the same time.  I’m more comfortable with PostgreSQL than SQL Server and it will reduce our licensing costs.I recently went through a VMWare to Hyper-V migration (thanks to Veeam it was very straightforward).The downside is that I must maintain the legacy VMWare backups until the end of the retention period and maintain the new Hyper-V backups in parallel.  I can’t afford a reset on block tracking or whatever references are maintained for XFS reflink usage.With a migration to a new server and new database engine, relying only on the Veeam B&R backup .bco file, is there any danger of losing changed block tracking data or resetting the reflink index, triggering a requirement for a full backup? With thanks,Simon

Hi All,In Vault Foundation the immutable retention is 30 days but does this works the same as immutable with object storage?  Where 30 days is actually 54 days?Or am I missing up stuff?https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/hyperv/hiw_immutability_os.html?ver=120Thanks 

Hello guys, I have been stuck with a Veeam Data Platform Premium installation for Veeam Recovery Orchestrator… Each time I do the installation, it rolls back and fails. I suspected it was a database configuration issue from the log extracts below: [29.05.2025 18:32:18][ERROR] System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception (1603): Fatal error during installation.   at Veeam.Setup.MsiLibrary.VmMsiCommon.CheckError(VmMsiDatabase db, UInt32 result)   at Veeam.Setup.MsiLibrary.VmMsiInstall.DoActionCheckError(String action)   at Veeam.Setup.Wizard.VmInstallProduct.ExecuteCustomDialog(VmMsiInstall install, String Dialog) [29.05.2025 18:34:49][WARNING] Unable to proceed with the setup: invalid database configuration detected.The following registry keys will not be created:EntraIdSqlHostName (REG_SZ)EntraIdSqlHostPort (REG_DWORD)EntraIdSqlUserName (REG_SZ)EntraIdSqlPassword (REG_SZ) I corrected the configuration issue by installing Microsoft SQL Server 2019 (Enterprise Edition) and using that instance fo

Hello,It’s possible to get job status (warning, failed or success) using powershell script?

Hi everyone,I encountered a strange behavior while migrating a customer this week and would like to share my experience and possibly get answers about the root cause. Scenario: Veeam Instant Recovery from Hyper-V to VMware Source: Hyper-V host (WS2019 Datacenter) and WS2019 Standard guest with 2 disks (OS=NTFS / DATA= ReFS)Destination: Esxi v8 (vSphere Enterprise plus)Backup Server: WS2022 standard with Veeam B&R Enterprise 12.1.2.172 What I did for many VMs with success and with a very short downtime :Backup source (running VM) to a local repository Stop source VM Backup (incremental) to the same repository Instant Recovery to vSphere Install VMware Tools Reboot VM Check if everything is working Migrate to productionBut on this WS2019 guest with a ReFS data volume, at step 4, just after the guest boot, the volume showed as RAW… I found this in the ReFS log on the guest :Event ID 7: "ReFS failed to mount the volume. Version 3.7 doesn't match expected value 3.4" After googling for a