How to Restore Individual Files When FLR Fails

Purpose This article documents an alternate method to restore individual files when the File Level Restore fails or the filesystem is incompatible with the Guest OS File Recovery functionality of Veeam Backup & Replication. Solution Alternative Method for VMware Virtual Machines If the data you a...

Object reference not set to an instance of an object exception on Checking free space on source datastore

Job fails right away with error "Checking free space on source datastore. Object reference not set to an instance of an object."...

fault.RestrictedVersion.summary

Challenge Getting an error when running a SureBackup job: Unable to mount vPower NFS volume fault.RestrictedVersion.summary Failed to connect backup datastore to the ESX host "hostname".\n Unable to mount vPower NFS volume BACKUP1:/VeeamBackupBACKUP1. Backup1: fault.RestrictedVersion.summary\n...

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...

SureBackup Performance Considerations

Purpose This article provides advice and information on understanding and improving SureBackup performance. Solution SureBackup Performance Considerations The Repository where the backup files are stored, and the Mount Server used by that Repository, should be in the same data center as the ESXi...

VDDK Error 3 Troubleshooting

Challenge A Backup or Replication job fails with an error containing 'VDDK error: 3 ' This most often occurs when forcing aVMware Backup Proxy to use 'Virtual Appliance' transport mode and disabling the 'Failover to network mode' option. Cause The most common scenario is that the disks of the VM...

Multi Manage Post Module Macro Execution

This module will execute a list of modules given in a macro file in the format of against the select session checking for compatibility of the module against the sessions and validation of the options provided. This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source:...

Appliance Mode (Hotadd) Requirements and Troubleshooting

Requirements Virtual Appliance HOTADD Requirements and Limitations Requirements for Backup and Restore of Encrypted VMs Known Issues If the VM disk resides on a vVol, the Veeam VMware Backup Proxy's VM configuration file vmx must be on the same vVol. The Veeam VMware Backup Proxy VM must be locat...

File is larger than the maximum size supported by datastore

Challenge The following error message occurs when attempting to create a VMware snapshot. File is larger than the maximum size supported by datastore The Veeam Backup & Replication job fails with the following error: CreateSnapshot failed, vmRef "vm-xxx", timeout "1800000", snName "VEEAM BACKUP...

McKesson HCI Hardcoded Passwords

McKesson Horizon Clinical Infrastructure, also known as McKesson HCI, utilizes hardcoded passwords for Oracle database access. HCI serves as the patient record datastore for the majority of McKesson applications. There are two components to an HCI implementation: the Infrastructure or Master serv...

Linux Command Shell, Reverse TCP Inline

Connect back to attacker and spawn a command shell This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework module MetasploitModule CachedSize = 68 include Msf::Payload::Single include Msf::Payload::Linux::X86::Prepends includ...