Veeam Agent for Linux install on EOL CentOS fails with a repository error

Challenge When installing Veeam Agent for Linux on a version of CentOS that has reached End of Life, the install fails with messages similar to the following: CentOS 8: Error: Failed to download metadata for repo 'appstream': Cannot prepare internal mirrorlist: No URLs in mirrorlist Copy CentOS 6...

How to change backup proxy type

Challenge A new backup proxy can be deployed with one of the two types - domain or workgroup. This article explains how you can change the type of a backup proxy after it has been added to the Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 infrastructure. Cause After you added a new backup proxy to the Veeam...

Release Information for Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 5.0

Requirements Please confirm that you are running one of the following versions of Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 before upgrading to 5.0: 3.0 build 3.0.0.422 4.0 build 4.0.0.1345 4a builds 4.0.0.1553, 4.0.0.1580 4b builds 4.0.0.2516, 4.0.0.2549 4c builds 4.0.1.519, 4.0.1.531, 4.0.1.545 You can...

Connect to Veeam Backup for AWS appliance using private IP

Challenge You want to connect to a Veeam Backup for AWS appliance using its private IP. Solution If you want to connect to an appliance deployed in AWS Marketplace, use the instructions provided in Connecting to Existing Veeam Backup for AWS Appliances. At the Connection Type step of the wizard,...

Veeam products may fail to install on Windows 10 version 20H2

Challenge An attempt to install Veeam products may fail with the following error: "Setup failed". This error may affect the following products: Veeam Backup & Replication Veeam Availability Orchestrator Veeam Service Provider Console Veeam ONE Cause If a Microsoft SQL Server is not installed...

Release Information for Veeam Backup for AWS v3

Requirements Please confirm that you are running version v2 build 2.0.0.600 or later prior to upgrading. You can check your build number under Configuration | Support Information | About | Server version by clicking the gear icon at the top-right corner of the main menu in Veeam Backup for AWS...

How to Reset Password in Veeam Backup for Google Cloud

Challenge You need to reset the password of a Backup Administrator account used to access Veeam Backup for Google Cloud. Solution Before you begin, make sure the IP address of the machine that you are using to reset the password is on the list of allowed IP addresses added to the firewall rules...

How to Assign Permissions to Service Accounts Used by Veeam Backup for Google Cloud Platform

Challenge Veeam Backup for Google Cloud Platform requires a service account in each GCP project where data protection and disaster recovery tasks will be performed. The tasks include the following: Creating Snapshots Manually Performing Backup Perform Restore Adding Backup Repositories Create...

Veeam Backup for Google Cloud Recovery/Migration Procedure

Challenge This article explains how to recover Veeam Backup for Google Cloud data in case the backup appliance gets corrupted and requires the data to be moved to a new instance as the data contains important information about restore points, repositories, policies and so on. Solution Recommended...

Connecting Restored VM Instances to New Networks in Veeam Backup for Google Cloud

Challenge By default, every VM instance in a VPC network has a single default network interface, and you cannot add or remove network interfaces from an existing VM instance. This means that Google Cloud does not allow you to attach the network interface of a VM instance to a different network wh...

Additional Information on Cost Estimation in Veeam Backup for Google Cloud

Challenge The cost estimation feature allows you to approximately estimate the costs of Google Cloud resources required to run data protection operations for a backup policy. You can obtain granular information on how much costs running the policy will incur, with an option to export the estimati...

RMAN Autobackup Failure

Challenge If you use Veeam Plug-in for Oracle RMAN, under certain circumstances the RMAN autobackup process may fail. In this case, you will see the following error in VeeamPluginManager.log: Preparing autobackup backup for file...

General HCI Storage & Veeam CDP support status

Veeam CDP supports the following HCI Storage systems: HPE dHCI HPE Simplivity NetApp HCI Cisco HyperFlex requirements see KB4093 Nutanix AOS with VMware vSphere If this KB article did not resolve your issue or you need further assistance with Veeam software, please create a Veeam Support Case. To...

Installing DKMS in SLES

Challenge On SUSE Linux Enterprise Server SLES, a non-precompiled veeamsnap module requires the dkms package, but the dkms package cannot be found. Cause The dkms package is not available within the Packman repository for SLES. Solution Install the OpenSUSE dkms package on the SLES system. Exampl...

Release notes for Veeam Backup & Replication 10a Cumulative Patch 20201202

More Recent Version Available Please find the latest version of Veeam Backup & Replication here: Veeam Downloads - Latest Version Requirements Please confirm that you are running version 10a build 10.0.1.4854 prior to installing this update. You can check this under Help | About in the Veeam Back...

Release Information for Veeam Agent for IBM AIX 2.0

The latest version of Veeam Agent for IBM AIX is available: https://www.veeam.com/ibm-aix-agent-download.html Requirements Upgrade from v1 is not supported, clean installation is required. Please follow this instruction to install Veeam Agent for IBM AIX. After installing, your build number will ...

Release Information for Veeam Agent for Oracle Solaris 2.1

The latest version of Veeam Agent for Oracle Solaris can be found here: https://www.veeam.com/oracle-solaris-agent-download.html This update supersedes Veeam Agent for Oracle Solaris 2.0. Requirements Upgrade from v1 is not supported, clean installation is required. Upgrade from Veeam Agent for...

Backup Jobs Fail After RDX Cartridge Is Swapped

Challenge When a backup repository is backed by an RDX removable storage device, the backup job may fail after the cartridge is swapped because the previously written backup file cannot be found on the new cartridge. Cause This issue occurs because repositories are not configured to be backed by...

Veeam Support for Azure Local

Azure Local is the new name for Azure Stack HCI Azure Stack HCI is now considered part of Azure Local. Learn more about this rename in the Microsoft Documentation: Renaming Azure Stack HCI to Azure Local. Purpose This article documents support for backup, restore, and replication of virtual machi...

How to Create a Secure IAM Policy for Connection to S3 Object Storage

Purpose This article documents how to create a secure IAM policy to connect to the S3 bucket used as an object storage repository in Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 for storing backup data. Solution The following permissions will allow Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 to access the S3 bucket to save...