Guidelines for Mass Instant Recovery to Azure

Article Applicability This article contains information related to Veeam Backup & Replication build 13.0.1.180 and later, as performance for IR to Azure was significantly improved starting with this build. Challenge When attempting to perform mass recovery using Instant Recovery to Azure, the...

Oracle Instant Recovery fails with "Database is online. Failed to restore database files."

Challenge Instant Recovery of an Oracle DB with version 12.1-12.2 fails with the following error show in the console: Database is online. Failed to restore database files. Copy Veeam Log Example C:\ProgramData\Veeam\Backup\ExplorerStandByService\Logs\VEOR\InstantRecovery\session.log SSH output 3:...

Cannot edit configuration of VMware VM via ESXi after Instant Recovery from Veeam Agent backup

Challenge When you complete Instant VM Recovery from the Veeam Agent backup, then try to edit the VM configuration via ESXi, the following error occurs: "Enter a disk size which is larger than its original capacity." Then you try to edit the decimal virtual disk size via ESXi, and another error...

"Failed to detach SCSI lun" errors in vSphere after finishing Instant Recovery or File-level restore from storage snapshots

Challenge You might see "Failed to detach SCSI lun" errors in vSphere during the unexport phase when restoring items file-level restore from storage snapshot or doing an Instant Recovery from storage snapshot because of certain VMware behaviour. Both types of the restores include a step when...

FLR Fails When VMDK Is Encrypted With HyTrust

Challenge Attempting to restore guest files using Windows File Level Restore fails when the machine's VMDKs were encrypted using HyTrust. Cause As the VMDKs are encrypted, they can not be mounted to be browsed using the File Level Restore browser. Solution To work around this issue, review KB1459...

VMware Instant Recovery Times Out

Challenge Instant VM recovery of a VMware VM fails after at least 30 minutes with the error: Failed to publish VM Cause Veeam Backup & Replication implements timeouts for most operations to protect against hangs. However, even when no process is hung, timeouts may occur due to significant...

Instant Recovery or Multi-OS File Level Recovery fails when the VM has Flex-SE disk

Challenge Even if there is at least one manually created SEsparse Flex-SE disk attached to the VM in backup you will experience the following issues: A File Level Restore from Other OS session fails with the error: Failed to mount restore point PowerOn failed, vmRef 'vm-', hostRef 'host-' File...

Mount host is not specified for backup repository “Repository name”

Challenge When attempting to perform an Instant Recovery, Multi-OS FLR, or SureBackup the following error is thrown. Mount host is not specified for backup repository "" Multi-OS Restore: Instant Recovery: SureBackup: Solution Within the settings for the repository specified in the error there is...

Storage vMotion of Instant Recovery fails with “The method is disabled by ‘’”

Challenge When attempting to migrate an Instant Recovery VM to a production datastore using VMware Storage vMotion, the following error occurs: The method is disabled by 'vm-' Call 'VirtualMachine.Relocate' for object 'vmname' on vCenter Server 'vCenterName' failed. Solution To correct this issue...

[FacebookPasswordDump v2.0] Command-line Tool to Recover Facebook Password from Browsers and Messengers

Facebook Password Dump is the command-line tool to instantly recover your lost Facebook password from popular web browsers and messengers. Currently it can recover your Facebook password from following applications, Firefox Internet Explorer v6.x - v10.x Google Chrome Chrome Canary/SXS CoolNovo...

[Facebook Password Dump] Tool to instantly recover your lost Facebook password

Facebook Password Dump is the command-line tool to instantly recover your lost Facebook password from popular web browsers and messengers. It automatically discovers installed applications on your system and recovers all the stored Facebook login passwords within seconds. Being command-line tool...

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...

Troubleshooting vPower NFS Datastore Mounting Issues

Challenge During SureBackup, Instant Recovery, Instant Disk Recovery, or Other-OS FLR operation, the following error is seen in the VMware environment: Error during the configuration of the host: NFS Error: Unable to Mount filesystem: Unable to connect to NFS server. or An error occurred during...