CBT does not track changes correctly on VHDX disks files larger than 2 TB

Challenge Veeam Change Block Tracking CBT driver incorrectly parses virtual disk file change information causing jobs to failover to "full scan" incremental passes in case of VSS backup or to create an empty incremental backup in case of crash-consistent backup when both of the following conditio...

Installation of Veeam Backup & Replication version 8 fails

Challenge Installation of Veeam Backup & Replication fails with one of the following errors: 1. Cannot get 'Veeam Backup and Replication Service' service account name. or 2. Failed to use specified user account. Cause Both of these issues occur when reinstalling Veeam. Solution To resolve the...

mysql: unspecified vulnerability related to SERVER:REPLICATION ROW FORMAT BINARY LOG DML (CPU October 2014)

Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle MySQL Server 5.5.38 and earlier and 5.6.19 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to affect availability via vectors related to SERVER:REPLICATION ROW FORMAT BINARY LOG DML...

mysql: unspecified vulnerability related to SERVER:REPLICATION ROW FORMAT BINARY LOG DML (CPU October 2014)

Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle MySQL Server 5.5.38 and earlier and 5.6.19 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to affect availability via vectors related to SERVER:REPLICATION ROW FORMAT BINARY LOG DML...

mysql: unspecified vulnerability related to SERVER:REPLICATION ROW FORMAT BINARY LOG DML (CPU October 2014)

Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle MySQL Server 5.5.38 and earlier and 5.6.19 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to affect availability via vectors related to SERVER:REPLICATION ROW FORMAT BINARY LOG DML...

mysql: unspecified vulnerability related to SERVER:REPLICATION ROW FORMAT BINARY LOG DML (CPU October 2014)

Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle MySQL Server 5.5.38 and earlier and 5.6.19 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to affect availability via vectors related to SERVER:REPLICATION ROW FORMAT BINARY LOG DML...

Backup to tape jobs fails when the source contains .vrb files

Challenge 1. When using backup to tape on a source job containing .vrb files, the jobs may fail with the error: MediaPool not found id: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000. 2. When enabling incremental mode in backup to tape, .vrb files will be transfered to tape. Cause This is a known issue...

Slow replication when target proxy uses Virtual Appliance (HotAdd) mode

Challenge Incremental replication throughput is slow when target proxy uses Virtual Appliance transport mode HotAdd. Cause This issue is caused by VMware's limitation. Writing to VM snapshot in hotadd mode may cause high I/O load on the target datastore and result in latency spikes and slow...

After replacing the license file, you get warnings about a “Grace Period” to renew the license in 4000 days

Challenge This article covers an issue which impacts the following versions differently, but is caused by the same issue. Veeam Backup & Replication 7 Veeam Backup & Replication 8 and 9 ─ ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Veeam Backup & Replication 7 ─...

RHEL 5 : Red Hat Directory Server (RHSA-2013:0549)

Updated Red Hat Directory Server and related packages that fix one security issue and multiple bugs are now available for Red Hat Directory Server 8.2. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having low security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score,...

RHEL 5 : redhat-ds-base (RHSA-2013:1116)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2013:1116 advisory. Red Hat Directory Server is an LDAPv3 compliant server. The base packages include the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol LDAP server and...

VMware vSphere Replication Bash Environment Variable Command Injection Vulnerability (VMSA-2014-0010) (Shellshock)

The VMware vSphere Replication installed on the remote host is version 5.1.x prior to 5.1.2.2, 5.5.x prior to 5.5.1.3, 5.6.x prior to 5.6.0.2, or 5.8.x prior to 5.8.0.1. It is, therefore, affected by a command injection vulnerability in GNU Bash known as Shellshock, which is due to the processing...

CVE-2014-6463

Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle MySQL Server 5.5.38 and earlier and 5.6.19 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to affect availability via vectors related to SERVER:REPLICATION ROW FORMAT BINARY LOG DML...

CVE-2014-6463

Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle MySQL Server 5.5.38 and earlier and 5.6.19 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to affect availability via vectors related to SERVER:REPLICATION ROW FORMAT BINARY LOG DML...

CVE-2014-6463

CVE-2014-6463 affects Oracle MySQL Server 5.5.38 and earlier and 5.6.19 and earlier; impact is availability via SERVER:REPLICATION ROW FORMAT BINARY LOG DML when an authenticated remote user runs DML. Red Hat advisories RHSA-2014-1940 and related RHSA entries indicate that MariaDB/MariaDB-Galera ...

UBUNTU-CVE-2014-6463

Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle MySQL Server 5.5.38 and earlier and 5.6.19 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to affect availability via vectors related to SERVER:REPLICATION ROW FORMAT BINARY LOG DML...

CVE-2014-6463

Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle MySQL Server 5.5.38 and earlier and 5.6.19 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to affect availability via vectors related to SERVER:REPLICATION ROW FORMAT BINARY LOG DML...

VDDK Error 3014 - Insufficient permissions in the host operating system

Challenge A Veeam Backup & Replication task interacting with a VMware environment fails with error: Error --tr:VDDK error: 3014 Insufficient permissions in the host operating system. Value: 0x0000000000000bc6 Cause This error occurs when the account used to communicate with the vCenter does not...

VMware vSphere Replication Multiple OpenSSL Vulnerabilities (VMSA-2014-0006)

The VMware vSphere Replication installed on the remote host is version 5.5.x prior to 5.5.1.1, or else it is version 5.6.x. It is, therefore, affected by the following OpenSSL related vulnerabilities : - An error exists in the function 'ssl3readbytes' that could allow data to be injected into oth...

Backup Copy Retention

Purpose This article is intended to document how Backup Copy's retention is enforced. Solution Starting with Veeam Backup & Replication 11, there are two diferent retention policy schemes for backup copy jobs: Short-Term Retention Policy GFS Retention Policy Weekly, Monthly, Yearly More Informati...