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...

Veeam Data Privacy Policy

Solution In accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation GDPR introduced on May 25, 2018. If you would like to: Delete your personal information Unsubscribe from marketing communications Get or update your personal information or for any general legal requests and GDPR compliance...

Veeam Availability Orchestrator cannot add vCenter Server or standalone host due to time difference

Challenge When you try to add a VMware vCenter Server or a standalone VMware ESXi with a different time zone, the operation may fail with an error informing that time difference between Veeam Availability Orchestrator and the remote host is too large. Solution To resolve the issue, follow the nex...

Veeam repository update fails, GPG key error

Challenge When attempting to update the Veeam Agent for Linux or the veeam-release repository package, an error is encountered: GPG key signature on key http://repository.veeam.com/keys/RPM-GPG-KEY-VeeamSoftwareRepo.asc does not match CA Key for repo: veeam or The following signatures were invali...

Snapshot Summary report Sort by size hotfix

Challenge The "Sort by Size" option does not work in the following reports properly: 1. Virtual Machines. Snapshot Summary Veeam VMware Analysis Reports pack 2. Virtual Machines. Checkpoint Summary Veeam Hyper-V Analysis Reports pack Cause This is a known issue with the sorting function. Solution...

The Update cannot be installed due to the websites configuration issue

Challenge The Update cannot be installed. The installation fails with the error message: "The object identifier does not represent a valid object. Exception from HRESULT: 0x800710D8" Cause Veeam ONE websites do not have proper bindings on the Internet Information Services IIS side. Solution To fi...

How to Move Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 to a New Server

Purpose This article documents the procedure for moving resources assigned to a Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 server installation to a new Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 server. At this time, there is no way to export the configuration of Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365. As such,all organizations...

Protecting the Veeam Backup & Replication server

Purpose This article provides information about protecting the Veeam Backup & Replication Configuration. This addresses the frequently asked question: "How do I back up or protect the Veeam Server?" The only supported way to protect the configuration of Veeam Backup & Replication is to use the...

Antivirus Exclusions for Veeam Service Provider Console

Purpose This article documents antivirus exclusions that may be created to reduce the impact that antivirus software has on the functionality of Veeam Service Provider Console. These antivirus exclusions may be applied to the Windows built-in antivirus or third-party antivirus software. Note:...

How to Change Where SQL Transaction Log Backups Are Temporarily Stored on SQL Server

Purpose This article documents how to change the location where SQL transaction log backups are temporarily stored on a SQL server before being transferred to the repository. This article is relevant to the following parent-job types where SQL Transaction Log Backup can be used as a child-job:...

Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows deployment fails with “Failed to call RPC function 'PckgCheckSignature'

Challenge When adding a computer to a protection group, the Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows deployment begins and then fails with the following error: Info UploadManager Checking windows package 'C:\ProgramData\Veeam\Agents\VAW\VeeamB&REndpointx64.msi' signature on host 'HOSTNAME' Error Failed ...

All Aliases Have Failed

Challenge A Tenant's Backup Job or Backup Copy Job targeting a Cloud Repository fails with the following message: Target gate has rejected connection. Unable to establish target connection. All aliases have failed. The wording of the error might differ, but the root error "All Aliases Have Failed...

How to Back Up a Windows Failover Cluster with Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows

Solution Information regarding Failover Cluster Support is available in the Veeam Agent Management Guide: Failover Cluster Support How to Protect Failover Clusters If this KB article did not resolve your issue or you need further assistance with Veeam software, please create a Veeam Support Case...

How to Change Veeam ONE Web Client Port

Purpose This article documents the procedure for changing the port used by the Veeam ONE Web Client, which by default is 1239. Solution Desktop Shortcut Not Automatically Updated This procedure does not update the Veeam ONE Web Client shortcut on the desktop C:\Users\Public\Desktop. Part 1: Updat...

Sensitive data types in Veeam Backup & Replication and Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 log files

Challenge When you open a support ticket, Veeam Customer Support specialists may request log files. These log files may contain information to which the terms of the data protection laws or internal company policies apply. Veeam Backup & Replication Veeam Backup & Replication log files may includ...

Installing Patch 1376 on Veeam Availability Console Microsoft Marketplace Appliance

Challenge Applying this update to a Veeam Availability Console VAC Azure Appliance fails with: "A newer version of this application is already installed on this computer. If you wish to install this version, please uninstall the newer version first. Click OK to exit the wizard." Cause Azure...

Update Veeam MP Core Services to Support TLS 1.2 Protocol

Challenge Starting with vSphere 6.5, the TLS protocol version 1.2 is enabled by default. Cause To allow Veeam Virtualization Extensions Service and Veeam VMware Collectors to connect to vCenter Servers that use the TLS 1.2 protocol, you must update Veeam MP core services. Solution NOTE: The...

Release Notes for Veeam Management Pack 8.0 Update 5

Challenge Release Notes for Veeam Management Pack 8.0 Update 5 Cause Please confirm you are running Veeam Management Pack 8.0 prior to installing this update. You can check this in Operations Manager console under Administration | Management Packs, the build number should be 8.0.0.2218 or later. ...

How to Migrate Veeam Service Provider Console to a New Server

The article describes how to move Veeam Availability Console installation and its database to a new server...

Considerations and Limitation - Live Resizing VHDX Disk

Challenge After live resizing a VHDX file, the following issue can occur based on the operation that was performed: Shrink -- If the VHDX associated with a VM is shrunk, the backup task for that VM will fail, and the following exception will be found in the Agent..Source. log file: cli|...