Release Information for Veeam Plug-In for Microsoft Azure 7 Cumulative Patches

Requirements Please confirm that you are running version Veeam Plug-In for Microsoft Azure v7 build 7.0.0.467 or later before upgrading. You can find the currently installed build number Product version in the About section under Configuration | Support Information | Updates. After installing Vee...

Restore or Failback to Server 2022 Hyper-V host fails with "Unable to update VM security descriptor Error"

Challenge A Full VM Restore, Instant Recovery, or Failback of Hyper-V VM with Configuration Version 5.0Configuration Version 5.0 was first introduced with Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V. to a Hyper-V host running Server 2022 fails with the following error: Unable to update VM security descriptor Error:...

How to Disable Oracle Processing Without Disabling Application-Aware Processing

Purpose This article documents how to disable the processing of Oracle instances by Application-Aware Processing without disabling Application-Aware Processing processing for other applications running on the same machine. Solution Disable Oracle Processing for a VM Protected by Veeam Backup &...

Failed to call RPC function: Error code: 0x80131500

Challenge Backup of Remote Desktop Server VMs with Application-Aware Processing may fail with an Unknown error, error code 0x80131500. You will see error messages similar to: "Failed to call RPC function 'Vss.GetSqlInfoForLastSnapshot2': Error code: 0x80131500. Failed to invoke func...

Failed to call RPC function 'Vss.FinishSnapshot'

Challenge A job utilizing Application-Aware Processing fails with either of the errors: Failed to call RPC function 'Vss.FinishSnapshot': Error code: 0x800401fd. Failed to invoke func FinishSnapshot Failed to call RPC function 'Vss.KeepSnapshot': Error code: 0x800401fd. Failed to invoke func...

Backup job fails with a SQL VSS Writer error after installing ACT! Software

Challenge A Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows Backup Job or Veeam Backup & Replication Backup Job with Application-Aware Processing enabled fails while attempting to process a server with ACT! Software installed , the job displays the following error: Failed to create snapshot. Error code...

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:...

Update to Microsoft Entra Connect causes SQL VSS issues

Challenge You receive the following error during the guest processing: Unable to release guest. Error: Unfreeze error over VIX: Backup job failed. Cannot create a shadow copy of the volumes containing writer's data. A VSS critical writer has failed. Writer name: SqlServerWriter. Class ID:...

Windows 10 VM Hyper-V Guest processing skipped on 2012 R2 Host

Challenge A Backup Job for a Windows 10 VM running on a 2012 R2 Hyper-V Host will fail to engage VSS when application-aware image processing is enabled, generating the error: Error Guest processing skipped check guest OS VSS state and integration components version System.Exception Cause This...

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...

Restoring Domain Controller from an Application-Aware backup

Article Applicability The details discussed in this article are related only to Domain Controllers that are not virtual machines in a Hyper-V environment. In Hyper-V environments, Domain Controller VMs are not modified to change the boot method during restore because the HV Integration Tools noti...

Release Notes for Veeam Backup & Replication 9.0 Update 1

Challenge Release Notes for Veeam Backup & Replication 9.0 Update 1 Cause Please confirm you are running version 9.0.0.902 prior to installing this update. You can check this under Help | About in Veeam Backup & Replication console. If you are using partner preview build 9.0.0.773, you must upgra...

How to Perform a Manual Failback (Reverse Replication)

Purpose This article describes how to manually fail back a replica by using reverse replication, which is useful when a normal failback fails or is not possible because the replica was powered on outside of the Veeam Backup & Replication Console. In simple terms, the replication process is run in...

Exchange Logs Not Being Truncated

Challenge This KB provides troubleshooting advice for investigating an apparent Exchange log truncation issue. Cause Exchange truncation may not occur for the following reasons: The Backup Job is not configured to trigger truncation. The VSS operation occurring during the job is not notifying the...

SQL Log Files (LDF) Not Smaller After Truncation

Challenge After Veeam Backup & Replication or Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows successfully truncates a SQL Server Database with Application-Aware Processing enabled, the SQL Log File .ldf does not become smaller. Cause This is due to the fact that the LDF file itself is a container, when...

Hyper-V Guest processing skipped (check guest OS VSS state and integration components version)

Challenge Guest VMs will fail to engage VSS when Application-Aware Processing is enabled, generating the error: Error Guest processing skipped check guest OS VSS state and integration components version System.Exception Solution Most Common Solution At the time this article was written in 2014,...

Release Information for Veeam Backup & Replication 7 R2 Update

Challenge Release Notes for Veeam Backup & Replication 7.0 R2а update Cause Please confirm you are running version 7.0.0.690, 7.0.0.715 or 7.0.0.764 prior to installing this patch. You can check this under Help | About in Veeam Backup & Replication console. After upgrading, your build will be...

0x80042316 or Error: VSSControl: -2147212522

Challenge A backup job using Application-Aware Processing fails with the errors: Failed to create snapshot. Error code -2147212522. 'Backup job failed. Error VSS error: VSSESNAPSHOTSETINPROGRESS. Code:0x80042316 Solution Error code: 0x80042316 and Error code -2147212522 both represent the VSS...

Patch 1 Release Notes for Veeam Backup & Replication 6.1.0.181

Challenge These are the issues resolved by the Patch 1 for Veeam Backup version 6.1.0.181. All patches are cumulative so each below fix is contained in this patch. Cause Please confirm you are running version 6.1.0.181 prior to applying this patch. You can check this under Help | About in Veeam...

Patch 3 Release Notes for Veeam Backup & Replication 6.0.0.153

Challenge These are the issues resolved by the Patch 3 for Veeam Backup version 6.0.0.153. All patches are cumulative so each below fix is contained in this patch. Application-aware processing fails for SQL server where Veeam configuration database is located. Cannot specify "0" in re-IP rule. Ho...