Windows File Level Restore hangs on "Starting restore session"

Challenge Windows File Level Restore hangs on "Starting restore session" for abnormally long period of time while free disk space on drive C:\ keeps decreasing dramatically on the machine where the Veeam Backup & Replication Console is launched. You may that find the following location of the cac...

How to Map Replicas in Cloud Connect

Purpose This KB article documents the procedure for mapping a replication job to a replica that was not created by a tenant's replication job. Cause Use case examples: The tenant has sent backup files to the Service Provider, and the Service Provider restores the VMs from the backup files to crea...

Installer Error: "This installation cannot be updated automatically." or "Unable to proceed with the setup"

Challenge When attempting to update Veeam software, the following error occurs: This installation cannot be updated automatically. Please contact Veeam customer support for assistance with manual update. Alternatively, the following error occurs: An error has occurred: Unable to proceed with the...

How to back up deduplicated volumes with Veeam Endpoint Backup

This article describes the best practice of backing up deduplicated volumes...

Unable to Back Up Disk X: Due to Invalid Partition Table

Challenge The backup job fails with the following error: Unable to back up disk X: due to invalid partition table Cause The error is caused by a volume type with no partition table and is not supported by Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows. In Windows Disk Management, the volume looks like a commo...

Release Notes for Veeam Backup & Replication 9.0 Update 2

More Recent Version Available Please find the latest version of Veeam Backup & Replication here: Veeam Downloads - Latest Version Challenge Release Notes for Veeam Backup & Replication 9.0 Update 2 Cause Please confirm you are running version 9.0.0.902 or 9.0.0.1491 prior to installing this updat...

Service Provider Licensing

Challenge Starting with Veeam Backup & Replication 9.0 Update 2, there have been several changes to licensing for service providers. Solution Usage reporting Veeam Backup & Replication 9.0 Update 2 introduced usage reporting by the backup server. This is considered a pilot and does not yet replac...

Troubleshooting Signature-Based Firewalls

Challenge Summary Data transfer is failing across a connection that is protected by an advanced firewall. The firewall uses signature-based detection. Relevant features may have names like antivirus, anti-spyware, intrusion prevention, or application control. Reported Firewalls This may affect an...

Procedure to split Veeam Backup & Replication Server and Veeam Cloud Connect Server

In the situation where the same Veeam Server is used to serve both Backup and Replication services, and Veeam Cloud Connect, Veeam is requiring service providers to split these two services into two d...

Unable to View Connection String for Veeam Reporter and Veeam Business View Websites in IIS Manager

Challenge When trying to view connection strings for Veeam Reporter and Veeam Business View websites in IIS manager, the following error messages pop up: Cause Veeam ONE encrypts these configuration settings. Solution This behavior is the product design. More Information If you have any questions...

Install or Upgrade of Veeam Backup & Replication fails with “Error occurred during certificate processing.”

Challenge When attempting to install or upgrade Veeam Backup & Replication, the "Installing Veeam Backup & Replication Server" step fails with: Error occurred during certificate processing. Cause This error occurs when the RSA private key generation fails during Veeam Backup & Replication...

Veeam Backup & Replication Detection (HTTP)

HTTP based detection of Veeam Backup & Replication SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Veeam VM Migrator Tool

Unsupported Tool This Veeam-developed tool is provided as a courtesy and is not supported by Veeam Technical Support. If any issues arise during the usage of this tool, customers are advised to restore from a configuration backup to rever the Veeam Backup & Replication configuration to the last...

multi-OS restore fails on Hyper-V 2008R2

To restore individual files and folders from file systems other than Microsoft Windows, you can use the multi-OS File-Level Restore wizard. To restore files from VM guest OS, Veeam Backup & Replic...

No updates from gateway servers

Challenge No data come from the gateway servers. The Svc.VeeamGateSvc.log on the Gateway server default path C:\ProgramData\Veeam\Backup contains the following entry: Failed to establish target connection to endpoint: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:9999 where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx points to the Veeam Managed Backup...

SureBackup Fails After MS Update KB3139914

Challenge SureBackup script tests fail as seen below: Info SureBackup VMNAME ScriptTests Begin 'Predefined script 1: name DNS Server, starting...' Error Failed to create process with net logon ERRORENVVARNOTFOUND System.Exception This is the DNS Script test specifically. The various script tests...

Topology construction failing due to a NullReferenceException

Challenge Management Pack fails to build the environmental topology. The vmspi.log default location: C:\Program Files\Veeam\Veeam Virtualization Extensions for System Center\Collector\Log contains the following entries: + System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of a...

Backup to Data Domain fails with “Error: calling system(), returns nonzero. Err: 5040 Failed to connect to storage.”

Challenge During the "preparing storage for backup" phase of a Veeam backup job to a Data Domain, the job fails, displaying the following error message: Error: calling system, returns nonzero. Err: 5040 Failed to connect to storage Cause The Data Domain chooses to use a different NIC than...

The tasks array included at least one null element

Challenge Management Pack fails to display a segment of the environmental topology or a portion of performance information. The vmspi.log default location: C:\Program Files\Veeam\Veeam Virtualization Extensions for System Center\Collector\Log contains the following entries: + VP038 buildInventory...

Console Error - Failed to connect to Veeam Backup & Replication Server

Challenge When attempting to connect to the Veeam Backup & Replication server using the console, the connection fails with one of the following errors: Failed to connect to the Veeam Backup & Replication server: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it :9392 Fail...