Vixie cron denial of service vulnerability (CNVD-2019-13243)

Vixie cron is a full-featured cron implementation based on SysV cron. cron is a daemon that runs scheduled tasks based on input from the command crontab. A denial of service vulnerability exists in previous versions of the Vixie Cron 3.0pl1-133 Debian package. The vulnerability stems from a...

How to Collect Logs for Veeam Plug-in for SAP HANA

Purpose This article documents how to collect the diagnostic information needed for a support case involving the Veeam Plug-in for SAP HANA. Solution 1. Collect diagnostic information as documented in the four sections below. 2. Combine the data into a single .zip file. 3. Attach the zip file to...

How to Move Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV Backup Files

Purpose This article documents how to migrate Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV backup files to a different Veeam Backup & Replication Repository. Solution Considerations and Limitations This process only works when moving backup files between Repositories of the same Veeam Backup & Replication server...

Cloned Nimble volumes are not visible

Challenge By default, cloned Nimble Volumes are not shown in Veeam Backup and Replication UI and cannot be interacted with. However you can implement registry setting that will enable Nimble cloned volumes for interaction. Solution 1. Create the following registry value on the Veeam Backup and...

Quest DR Series Disk Backup Software Command Injection Vulnerability (CNVD-2018-15630)

The Quest DR Series are disk storage and deduplication appliances. A command injection vulnerability exists in the rescanreplicaVTLcontainer method in Quest DR Series disk backup software before 4.0.3.1. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute commands via the container name...

hyperstart denial of service vulnerability

HyperHQ Hyper is a layered system based on virtualization. hyperstart is one of the launchers. A security vulnerability exists in the 'containersetupmodules' and 'hyperrescanscsi' functions of the container.c file in hyperstart version 1.0.0 in HyperHQ Hyper. ' functions contain a security...

How to place Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows backup chain on Veeam backup repository, so backup job continues chain

Purpose This article documents placing a backup chain created by Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows in a Veeam Backup & Replication repository so that when the Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows backup job targets that repository it will continue the existing backup chain. Use Case By default, when...

Backups are removed from UI after manual rescan

Backup files may disappear from UI and jobs may initiate active full backups after manual rescan of the repository. All repository types are affected, especially deduplicated appliances because they p...

VM does not meet the requirements for storage snapshot based jobs

Challenge A task utilizing storage snapshot integration fails with any of the following errors: VM does not meet requirements for storage snapshot based jobs: its virtual disks are not located on supported storage VM does not meet requirements for storage snapshot based jobs: its files are locate...

Backup Job or Backup Proxy rescan fails with “Failed to create processing task for VM Error: Disk 'GUID' not found”

After installing patch 1 for Veeam Backup & Replication 8, jobs may start to fail with the following error message:Error Failed to create processing task for VM Error: Disk ''...

How to manually remove restore points from a VMware Replica

Purpose This article documents how to remove restore points from a Veeam Backup & Replication replica in a vSphere environment. The replica must be in a state where: the latest run was successful the job is not currently running failover is not currently active. Solution Remove old restore points...

Veeam doesn't clean up temporary datastore in vSphere after restore from NetApp storage snapshot

Challenge After completing one of the restore options available for NetApp storage snapshot, you may notice that the temporary datastore under the name "snap--" is still mounted on the ESXi hosts with inactive status. See the screenshot below for an example: After a manual rescan of the storage...

Cannot find VM in the backup file specified for seeding

Challenge A replication job with seeding enabled fails with any of the following errors: Failed to create processing task for VM Error: VM VM not found in backup for initial sync !Screenshot of Failed to create processing task for VM VM Error: VM \VM\ not found in backup for initial sync...

Prevent Veeam from locking tape drives

Challenge Veeam periodically rescans the tape drives. This locks the drives and prevents other tape software from writing to them. Cause The refresh rate on the automatic rescan is too frequent if using third party tape backup software. Solution The registry keys below prevent Veeam Backup &...

kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.32-279.11.1.el6 - net core: Fix napigrofrags vs netpoll path Amerigo Wang 857854 845347 - netdrv benet: disable BH in callers of beprocessmcc Amerigo Wang 857854 845347 - net bonding: remove IFFINNETPOLL flag Amerigo Wang 857854 845347 - mm fix contigpagedata kABI breakage and related memory...