How to log in to the Linux Helper Appliance

Purpose This article documents how to login to the Linux appliance used by Veeam Backup & Replication. This is not a common need, but may be neccesary for troubleshooting or advanced configuration. Linux appliances are used by Veeam Backup & Replication for several purposes: In Surebackup, the...

VSS Freeze Wait Timeout

Challenge A Backup or Replication tasks fails with the following errors: "VSSControl: Failed to prepare guest for freeze, wait timeout 900 sec." "VSSControl: Failed to freeze guest, wait timeout" Solution Possible Security Software Interference Anti-virus software may impede VSS operations. As an...

Error executing SQL script during upgrade to Veeam Backup & Replication 6.0.0

Veeam Backup & Replication upgrade to version 6.0.0 fails with the error: Error executing SQL script DBupdate.sqlfilled. Line 5225. There is already an object named 'db50update in the database'...

Unable to Connect Hyper-V Host via WMI. User credentials cannot be used for local connections.

Challenge When trying to add a Hyper-V host, you receive the error "Unable to connect via WMI. User Credentials cannot be used for local connections." Cause Not all of the prerequisites have been installed when using Veeam Backup & Replication. Solution Before adding Hyper-V servers, check the...

Your license has expired

Challenge During upgrade to a newer version of Veeam Backup & Replication, the following error occurs: Solution Review KB1191 for information about how to download a new license file. More Information Prior to Veeam Backup & Replication v10, all license files were bound by version release. To...

Unable to Use the "Processes" Tab in Veeam ONE

Challenge The following message is displayed when opening the Processes tab in Veeam ONE Client for a Virtual Machine: Failed to connect to the Guest OS. Verify that server is up, running, and accessible to Veeam ONE server. Solution Please ensure that the prerequisites are met: VMware vSphere...

"JavaScript must be enabled in the web browser to view this page" error while logging to Veeam Reporter Web page

Challenge Cause Security restrictions applied in web-browser prevent from running static content or Veeam Reporter website requires the Static Content feature of IIS be installed in order to function properly. Solution At first, try to add Veeam Reporter's web-site into list of Trusted Sites zone...

How to Create a Custom SureBackup Test Script

Purpose This article provides information about creating custom SureBackup roles and scripts which can be used to enhance SureBackup testing. Solution Information regarding custom SureBackup roles can be found here: https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/creatingxmlfiles.html Informatio...

User authentication failed

When adding an ESX server to Veeam Backup and Replication console and specifying SSH Connection Settings the error message pops up: "Failed to login to "servername" by SSH, port 22, user "user", elevateToRoot False, autoSudo False User authentication failed...

"Virtual Machine is unavailable and will be skipped from processing. " or "Failed to expand object"

Challenge One or more virtual machines in a VMware Backup job fails with the following error: vSphere Environment Virtual Machine is unavailable and will be skipped from processing. Hyper-V Environment Task failed. Failed to expand object . Error: Cannot find VM on host Cause These errors occur...

CreateSnapshot failed, the operation is not allowed in the current state

Challenge A task fails for a vSphere Virtual Machine that is being processed by Veeam Backup & Replication with the error: Error: The operation is not allowed in the current state. A related error can be seen in the vSphere Client for the VM: This error may occur during any job in which Veeam...

Return argument has an invalid type

Challenge Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager fails to collect data from a Veeam Backup server with the following error: Return argument has an invalid type. The following error can be seen in VeeamBES.log: timestamp Info Reporting data were successfully collected from the server server.local timesta...

Server Running Enterprise Manager reboots repeatedly

Challenge After installing Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager, after rebooting the machine repeatedly reboots. When Veeam Enterprise Manager is installed with a remote DB, and the installer is run with different credentials than what is specified during the install, the wrong credentials will get...

How to change URL in Enterprise Manager notification email

Purpose This article documents how to change the URL listed in the Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager notification email. Example of Backup Enterprise Manager Notification Solution Back Up Database Before Making Changes Before making changes to the VeeamBackupReporting database, create a backup of t...

Veeam Backup & Replication Support for Rotated Media

Purpose This article provides links to documentation regarding Veeam Backup & Replication Repositories using Rotated Media. Solution Details about the functionality and configuration of repositories supporting rotated media can be found in the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide: Limitations of...

How to Test Manually Mounting the Veeam vPower NFS Datastore

Purpose This article documents manually mounting the vPower NFS Datastore using the vSphere Web Client. The steps of this article are only intended as a troubleshooting step to help investigate and isolate an issue with vPower NFS-based restores failing. Solution This article's solution is split...

Using Rsync to Copy Backup Files Offsite

Challenge When using Rsync as a post job activity to copy backup files to an offsite location one of the problems that is encountered is that after the second backup is using reverse incremental, Rsync copies all the data from the vbk file one more time, and not just the changes from the last...

Enterprise Manager shows duplicate jobs

Challenge After moving the Veeam server to another server the jobs tab of the Backup Enterprise Manger still shows the jobs from the previous Backup server. Cause Information about the old backup server still remains in VeeamBackupReporting database. Solution To correct this: 1. Go to the...

Guest OS Event Logs Indicate a Time Shift Has Occurred During Backup

Challenge There is a time shift on the guest VM during the Veeam job when the snapshot is taken. You are getting messages such as the following in the system event log: Event ID: 1 The system time has changed to from . Cause VMware Tools may be configured to synchronize the virtual machine's time...

NFC connectivity troubleshooting steps

Challenge A job fails with an error related to NFC Network File Copy connectivity. For example: Error: NFC storage connection is unavailable. Failed to create NFC download stream. Failed to create NFC upload stream. Cause The cause of most NFC errors fall into 4 primary categories: DNS The proxy ...