Veeam ONE compatibility patch for Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 4

Challenge After upgrading Veeam Backup & Replication servers to version 9.5 Update 4, Veeam Cloud Connect monitoring and reporting in Veeam ONE 9.5 Update 3 will stop working. Cause This issue is caused by incompatibility of Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 4 and Veeam ONE 9.5 Update 3. To...

IBM SVC or IBM Storwize storage LUN can be deleted under specific circumstances

Challenge | Newly created LUNs on IBM storages that utilize the Spectrum Virtualize Software with Veeam B&RIBM SVC or IBM FlashSystem, under very specific circumstances, can be deleted by Veeam B&R. --- Cause | Spectrum Virtualize software has the ability to reuse LUN IDs, which are not set to be...

Certificate expiration date

Challenge The following error message appears when starting Veeam Backup and Replication console: Cause Veeam Backup and Replication self-signed certificate expires 11 months after installation. The certificate is renewed, but Veeam Backup Service still has information about the old one in the...

Cloned Nimble volumes are not visible

Challenge By default, cloned Nimble Volumes are not shown in Veeam Backup and Replication UI and cannot be interacted with. However you can implement registry setting that will enable Nimble cloned volumes for interaction. Solution 1. Create the following registry value on the Veeam Backup and...

Replication Error: The name '{vmname}' already exists.

Challenge Veeam Backup & Replication replication job fails with the following error message: Processing Error: The name 'replica' already exists. When the error above occurs within Veeam Backup & Replication the following correlating event can be found within the vSphere Events. Cause This error...

Consistent backup failures after installing vSphere 6.7 U1

Challenge After updating vCenter to 6.7U1, processing of all VMs fails with "Object reference not set to an instance of an object." Cause The issue is triggered by an update to the vSphere API version in vCenter 6.7 U1. Solution The issue affects only Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 3a...

Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v2 cumulative patch KB2765

Challenge Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v2 cumulative patch KB2765 Cause Please confirm you are running Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 version 2.0.0.567 prior to installing this cumulative patch KB2765. You can check this under Help About in Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 console. After upgradin...

Protection Domain Has Third-Party Backup Snapshot(s)

Challenge Two different issues are possible: Scenario 1: Cannot Remove Protection Domain When trying to remove a protection domain containing the virtual machines, which are being backed up by Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV backup appliance, the following error occurs: Specified protection domain h...

Backups Fail After Upgrade to AOS 5.8.0.1 or Later

Article Applicability This article documents a bug ENG-163615 Nutanix discovered in AOS 5.6.1 and resolved in AOS 5.9.1. These AOS versions were supported by all versions of Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV up to version 5. Starting with Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV 5, the minimum required AOS versio...

“Unauthorized” error is thrown by SharePoint Online and/or OneDrive for business backup jobs

Challenge Backup jobs for SharePoint Online and/or OneDrive items fail with any of the following errors: 07-08-2018 11:11:39 3 6640 Error: The request failed with HTTP status 401: Unauthorized. 07-08-2018 11:11:39 3 6640 Type: System.Net.WebException 07-08-2018 11:11:39 3 6640 Stack: 07-08-2018...

WinRM Service cannot process the Request

Challenge When attempting to add an On-Prem or Hybrid organization to Veeam Backup for Office 365 the following error occurs: The WinRM service cannot process the request because the request needs to be sent to a different machine. Use the redirect information to send the request to a new machine...

Granular permissions for Microsoft Azure user

Challenge When adding an Azure account to Veeam Backup & Replication, you would use the Add Microsoft Azure compute account... then, on the Subscription tab of the wizard that opens, select the "Create a new account" option. Doing this will register a new Azure AD Application. The account used to...

Adding on-premises SharePoint organization to Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 fails with "Encountered an internal error in the SSL library"

Challenge Adding an on-premises SharePoint organization with the Use SSL parameter enabled fails with the following error: "Connecting to remote server failed with the following error message: The server certificate on the destination computer : has the following errors: Encountered an internal...

Notification Emails From Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 Are Sent in an Unexpected Language

Challenge Email notifications sent by Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 unexpectedly contain Chinese characters. Cause The issue is caused by an encoding conflict. By default, Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 uses UTF-16 character encoding, and the problem appears under the following circumstances: Us...

Oracle Database Backup Fails With Event ID 44

Challenge Veeam Backup & Replication or Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows jobs with Application-Aware Processing fail to process a Windows guest with Oracle database installed. The following symptoms are observed. The job fails with this or a similar error: Creating VSS snapshot Error: Failed to...

Build Numbers and Versions of Veeam Backup & Replication

This KB article lists all versions of Veeam Backup & Replication and their respective build numbers. For more information on downloading the latest version of Veeam Backup & Replication, visit: My Account Portal - Product Downloads Latest Downloads Page Veeam Backup & Replication -- What's New PD...

Veeam Backup & Replication plug-in missing in vSphere HTML5 Web Client after upgrade to VMware vSphere 6.7

Challenge After installing Veeam 9.5 Update 3a and simultaneous upgrade of vSphere from 6.5 to 6.7 Veeam vSphere Web Client Plugin might stop working for vSphere HTML5 Web Client. However it is still operational in vSphere Flash/Flex Web Client. The issue is only reproducible in case the plugin w...

Error: Backup proxy is missing C++ runtime components

Article Applicability The error message states that the C++ runtime components are missing, which may be inaccurate. The actual cause of the error is that the VDDK libraries cannot be loaded, which in older versions of Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 and older was caused by missing C++ runtimes...

Release Notes for Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 3a

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 3a Cause Please confirm that you are running version 9.5.0.580, 9.5.0.711, 9.5.0.802, 9.5.0.823,...

Zip Slip Vulnerability

Challenge Veeam is aware of the Zip Slip Vulnerability, which affects jobs with the guest file system indexing option enabled. Zip Slip is an arbitrary file overwrite vulnerability in multiple ZIP decompression algorithm implementations that affects thousands of software products across many...