Oracle error has occurred. ORA-01031: insufficient privileges

Challenge VSS operations fails for Oracle with: Oracle error has occurred. ORA-01031: insufficient privileges Cause This error is caused by an incorrect configuration for the service account leveraged for VSS operations when processing Oracle databases Solution Review permissions requirements:...

Scale-Out Backup Repository Free Space Calculation

Challenge Jobs running to a Scale-Out Backup Repository report "No scale-out repository extents have sufficient disk space to store the backup file, " even though some of the extents have adequate free space. Cause At the beginning of a job, if no other jobs are running, Veeam Backup & Replicatio...

'Events data collection failure' Issue

Challenge Veeam ONE raises Events data collection failure against Veeam Backup & Replication or Hyper-V server. Cause Permissions, UAC configuration, and firewall settings need to be configured. Solution Troubleshooting Checks Verify that the account used to connect to Veeam Backup & Replication ...

Failed to start service ‘VeeamDeploySvc’ - The system cannot find the file specified.

Challenge When attempting to add, edit, or rescan a Windows or Hyper-V server, or rescan a Protection Group that contains a Windows machine, the following error occurs: The system cannot find the file specified. Failed to start service 'VeeamDeploySvc'. Host: ''. --tr:Error code: 0x00000002 Faile...

Veeam ONE Database Calculator for Virtual Infrastructure and Veeam Backup & Replication Monitoring

New Interactive Calculator An updated interactive calculator is now available to replace the legacy Excel file included with this article. Veeam ONE Calculator Solution Summary This Veeam ONE database sizing calculator will help estimate the database size required to retain one year of historical...

Manually Moving Backup Files To or From a Scale-Out Backup Repository

Veeam Cloud Service Provider Specific Starting with Veeam Backup & Replication 12, migrating a tenant's backup files to or from a scale-out backup repository can be performed without the requirement to involve Veeam Technical Support as was needed in previous versions. Please carefully review:...

Removing a License from Veeam Backup and Replication or Enterprise Manager

Purpose This article provides information regarding removing licenses from Veeam Backup & Replication and Enterprise Manager. Solution Removing License From Veeam Backup & Replication Limitations If the Veeam Backup & Replication deployment is managed by Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager , the...

vSphere 6.5 backup/replication jobs hang

Challenge vSphere 6.5 backup/replication jobs may hang forever if you're using Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7 backup proxies. Agent…Source.log files contain lines similar to the following: 16.01.2017 16:16:08 vdl| Loading VDDK library. Version: 6.5, directory: 'C:\Program Files...

Release Notes for Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 1

More Recent Version Available Please find the latest version of Veeam Backup & Replication here: Veeam Downloads - Latest Version Challenge Release Notes for Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 1 Cause Please note that this is an incremental update of the Veeam Backup & Replication version 9.5...

Upgrade to Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 fails with "Unsupported SQL Version"

Upgrade to Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 you receive the error "Unsupported SQL Version"...

Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Day 0 Update

Challenge This update is provided to enable upgrading existing installations of Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 partner preview RTM build 9.5.0.580 to generally available version of Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 GA build 9.5.0.711. This update addresses a number of issues reported by our partners...

Restore Fails for Database with Consecutive Backslash Characters in File Path

Challenge Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SQL Server reports the error: Inconsistent database metadata. See the log for details. Cause One or more database file paths contained multiple consecutive backslash characters when the SQL server was backed up. Solution Clarifying Issue This issue cannot be...

Failed Load Library During Application Aware Processing of Oracle Running on Linux

Challenge When backing up a Linux VM running Oracle using Application-Aware Processing the following error occurs: Failed load library /u01/oracle/product/12.1.0.2/db1/lib/libclntsh.so. libmql1.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory when performing a backup Solution Confirm...

Windows File Level Restore hangs on "Starting restore session"

Challenge Windows File Level Restore hangs on "Starting restore session" for abnormally long period of time while free disk space on drive C:\ keeps decreasing dramatically on the machine where the Veeam Backup & Replication Console is launched. You may that find the following location of the cac...

How to Map Replicas in Cloud Connect

Purpose This KB article documents the procedure for mapping a replication job to a replica that was not created by a tenant's replication job. Cause Use case examples: The tenant has sent backup files to the Service Provider, and the Service Provider restores the VMs from the backup files to crea...

Release Notes for Veeam Backup & Replication 9.0 Update 2

More Recent Version Available Please find the latest version of Veeam Backup & Replication here: Veeam Downloads - Latest Version Challenge Release Notes for Veeam Backup & Replication 9.0 Update 2 Cause Please confirm you are running version 9.0.0.902 or 9.0.0.1491 prior to installing this updat...

Install or Upgrade of Veeam Backup & Replication fails with “Error occurred during certificate processing.”

Challenge When attempting to install or upgrade Veeam Backup & Replication, the "Installing Veeam Backup & Replication Server" step fails with: Error occurred during certificate processing. Cause This error occurs when the RSA private key generation fails during Veeam Backup & Replication...

Veeam VM Migrator Tool

Unsupported Tool This Veeam-developed tool is provided as a courtesy and is not supported by Veeam Technical Support. If any issues arise during the usage of this tool, customers are advised to restore from a configuration backup to rever the Veeam Backup & Replication configuration to the last...

Backup jobs stop working with NetApp SteelStore Cloud Integrated storage after upgrading to Veeam version 9

Challenge Aafter upgrading Veeam Backup & Replication to version 9, backup jobs to a NetApp repository based on a SteelStore host platform fail. The following error message can be seen in the job logs: " Error File not found. File name: \\PathToShare\BackupFolder\JobName.vbm" The NetApp log...

How to Export SQL Logs

Purpose This article documents how to export logs from the two SQL database engines used by Veeam Backup & Replication: Microsoft SQL Server PostgreSQL Solution Microsoft SQL Server Log Collection The following steps require Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio SSMS. 1. Open Microsoft SQL Serve...