New Search Experience for Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365

Purpose We are excited to announce the initial rollout of our new search feature, designed to significantly improve the speed and efficiency of your search experience. Below are the details and important limitations to be aware of during this phased rollout. What's New Faster Search Experience Ou...

June 10, 2025—Hotpatch KB5060841 (OS Build 26100.4270)

June 10, 2025—Hotpatch KB5060841 OS Build 26100.4270 Windows Server 2025 Datacenter & Standard machines connected to Azure Arc, now have the option to subscribe to hotpatch servicing. Hotpatch provides the ability to install OS security updates without restarting your machine. Improvements and...

Linux Hardened Repository Unable to Update Immutability or Remove Restore Points due to SGID

Article Applicability The errors in this article may occur for other reasons, this article is specifically relevant to a situation in which these errors occur because the folder where the backup files are stored has an SGID Set-Group ID configured. Example: backupsvc@rhel9$ ls -l total 1 drwxr-s...

Syrian Hackers Distributing Stealthy C#-Based Silver RAT to Cybercriminals

Threat actors operating under the name Anonymous Arabic have released a remote access trojan RAT called Silver RAT that's equipped to bypass security software and stealthily launch hidden applications. "The developers operate on multiple hacker forums and social media platforms, showcasing an...

Veeam Backup for Cloud Solutions Potential Data Loss

Challenge Possible data loss in backups created. Affected product versions: Veeam Backup for AWS 5.0.0.452 Veeam Backup for AWS 5.1.0.39 Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure 4.0.0.679 Veeam Backup for Google Cloud 3.0.0.859 Cause While creating backups to object storage, data loss may occur within th...

Veeam Backup for Google Cloud Recovery/Migration Procedure

Challenge This article explains how to recover Veeam Backup for Google Cloud data in case the backup appliance gets corrupted and requires the data to be moved to a new instance as the data contains important information about restore points, repositories, policies and so on. Solution Recommended...

How to Remove Missing Restore Points From Veeam Cloud Connect Backups

Purpose This article documents how to handle a situation in which the tenant of a Cloud Provider needs to forget missing restore points from a backup chain stored in a Cloud Repository. By design, the Forget and Remove operations are not available for restore points in a Cloud Repository. A resto...

Veeam Backup & Replication support for HPE Cloud Volumes Backup

Veeam Backup & Replication v10 provides official support for HPE Cloud Volumes Backup. HPE Cloud Volumes Backup is a cloud-based backup service from HPE that emulates on-premises StoreOnce Catalyst Stores and can be used by Veeam Backup & Replication as a backup target that will automatically pro...

Exploring VBO365 backups: Understanding Different Restore Scopes

Challenge You can explore backups in three different scopes: Backup Job , Organization , All organizations. Consider the following organizations added to the Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 backup infrastructure; each of these organizations uses its own backup repository to store data: Organizatio...

How to Move Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 to a New Server

Purpose This article documents the procedure for moving resources assigned to a Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 server installation to a new Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 server. At this time, there is no way to export the configuration of Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365. As such,all organizations...

Job Fails with "Retrieved less bytes from the storage [0] than required"

Challenge A Backup or Backup Copy job fails with the error: Retrieved less bytes from the storage 0 than required Symptoms The point may or may not actually be present on the repository when you browse the storage itself. However, the key issue is that the point shows up as 0 B / Incomplete under...

Backup Job has Too Many Restore Points - Considerations and Causes

Purpose This article provides information about the two most common configurations whose behavior can appear to cause "Too many restore points." Forward Incremental Retention Per-Machine Backup Files Solution Forward Incremental Retention The Forward Incremental Backup mode's method of retention...

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...

Forward Incremental – Animation of Method and Retention

Purpose This article is intended to document how Forward Incremental works, and how its retention is enforced. Solution There are two distinct methods of Forward Incremental: Forever Forward Incremental Forward Incremental with Periodic Fulls Forever Forward Incremental For more information...

Reverse Incremental – Animation of Method and Retention

Purpose This article is intended to document how Reversed Incremental works, and how its retention is enforced. Reverse Incremental Backup Method For information regarding this Backup Method please review the user guide. Reverse Incremental Restore Point Creation The following is an animation...

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...

Backup Copy "Source backup file has different block size."

Challenge The issue described in this KB Article only occurs when a Backup Copy job is using the Periodic copy pruning mode. During consecutive Backup Copy intervals, the same machine or group of machines fails to be processed. The message "Initial copy did not complete, and will resume on the ne...