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...