How to Exclude Applications from Dashboard & Compliance Reporting

Purpose This article provides steps to exclude system namespaces from the Veeam Kasten for Kubernetes dashboard and compliance reporting. Solution Explanation Veeam Kasten for Kubernetes automatically discovers all application namespaces of the cluster on which it is deployed. Each of these...

Veeam Kasten for Kubernetes - vSphere Block Mode Exports Failure With Error 14009

Challenge During vSphere block mode export, in certain situations, it might be observed that the folders/objects get created in the storage bucket. However, the export job remains stuck, and the following error message is seen in the debug logs: "Open virtual disk file failed. The error code is...

How to Configure Veeam Intelligent Diagnostics Log Location

Purpose This article documents how to change the location where Veeam Intelligent Diagnostics stores the logs it collects--allowing customers to configure both where those logs are stored temporarily on the Veeam Backup Server before being transferred to the Veeam ONE server and where those logs...

Release Information for Veeam Backup for Google Cloud 5 Patches

Requirements Please confirm that you are running version Veeam Backup for Google Cloud 5 build 5.0.0.1297 or later before upgrading. You can find the currently installed build number Server version in the About section under Configuration | Support Information | Updates. After installing Veeam...

Veeam Intelligence Updates

Learn more about Veeam Intelligence for Individual Products Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide Veeam Intelligence Veeam ONE User Guide Veeam Intelligence Veeam Service Provider Console Guide for End Users Veeam Intelligence Purpose This article documents new features, enhancements, and fixes...

Release History for Veeam Service Provider Console 8

This release is superseded by Veeam Service Provider Console 8.1. Veeam Service Provider Console 8 Builds 8.0.0.19552 This is a repack of build 8.0.0.19236 that includes an enhanced update to address the critical vulnerability in VSPC. Although our initial patch effectively addressed the primary...

Validator CLI Tool Fails to Process VMs in Per-machine backup with separate metadata files

Challenge When attempting to use the Veeam Backup Validator command-line tool to validate the VMs contained within a job that was using the Per-machine backup with separate metadata files aka True Per-VM backup chain format, the Veeam Backup Validator tool throws the error: Cannot find last point...

Granular Log Collection Guide for SOBR Capacity/Archive Tier Issues

Purpose This article documents an advanced granular log collection method designed to minimize the log bundle size when submitting Veeam Support cases for issues related to the capacity tier or archive tier of a Scale-Out Backup Repository. The standard method of collecting logs for these cases i...

Azure Storage Account Key Security Advisory

Purpose This article highlights a flaw in the design of Microsoft Azure roles that could lead to breaches between control and data planes. If a control plane user's account is compromised, it can be used to access and alter files stored in the storage accounts accessible to them. Cause The ListKe...

Build Numbers and Versions of Veeam Agent for IBM AIX

This KB article lists all versions of Veeam Agent for IBM AIX and their respective build numbers. For more information on downloading the latest version of Veeam Agent for IBM AIX , visit: Veeam Agent for IBM AIX -- Current Version Download Page Veeam Agent for IBM AIX -- What's New Current Versi...

Upgrade to Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 6.0 Fails Due to Invalid Rest Service Certificate

Challenge Attempting to upgrade an existing Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 installation to version 6.0 fails with the error: Failed to install the product An error occurred. See logs for details. Copy Article Applicability This article is relevant when the following error is found in the...

NAS Recycle Bin impact on Veeam Backup & Replication Repositories

Automatic Recycle Bin Exclusion Starting in Veeam Backup & Replication 12, the storage rescan operation will automatically exclude most recycle bin folders from being scanned. This improvement has reduced the occurrence of issues necessitating this KB article. However, some edge cases may exist...

Veeam Primary Storage Integration processing overview

Challenge Customers seeking new storage systems may want to consider Veeam's storage integration and special processing and compare systems...

How to Configure Bypass Rules for Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 Internet Proxy Setting

Purpose This article describes how to configure a bypass list for the Internet Proxy configured within Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365. Solution This procedure restarts services on the controller and backup proxies. Ensure that no backup or restore tasks are active before beginning. How it Works T...

Release Information for Everpure FlashArray Plug-In for Veeam Backup & Replication

This plug-in leverages the Veeam Universal Storage API, which enables storage OEMs to allow Veeam Backup & Replication integration to the arrays for backup and replication jobs. Requirements Before installing Everpure FlashArray Plug-In v2.2.331, ensure that you are running Veeam Backup &...

How to Create a Secure IAM Policy for Connection to S3 Object Storage

Purpose This article documents how to create a secure IAM policy to connect to the S3 bucket used as an object storage repository in Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 for storing backup data. Solution The following permissions will allow Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 to access the S3 bucket to save...

“Failed to access public folders. An internal server error occurred”

Veeam Support Knowledge Base answer to: Error: “Failed to access public folders. An internal server error occurred”...

"Value cannot be null. Parameter name: dnsName” Error when performing Infrastructure scans in Veeam Backup for AWS

For more information about Veeam Backup for AWS considerations and limitations, please review: Veeam Backup for AWS User Guide Planning and Preparation Considerations and Limitations Challenge When performing an infrastructure scan in Veeam Backup for AWS, you receive the following error: " Faile...

How to Collect Veeam ONE SMTP Logging

Purpose This article provides information on enabling extended SMTP email logging, which is necessary when investigating issues with Veeam ONE emails, such as missed alarm notifications, unexpected email content, or other email-related problems. SMTP logging is not enabled by default and must be...

Veeam Availability Console v3 Patch 4 (build 2795)

Challenge Veeam Availability Console v3 Patch 4 build 2795. This update supersedes Veeam Availability Console v3 Patch 3 build 2762. Cause Please confirm you are running version 3.0.0.2647 or later prior to installing this Patch 4. You can check this under Windows Programs and features. After...

Secondary storage backup stops working after NetApp MetroCluster switchover

Challenge After the MetroCluster switchover a backup job with the SnapVault or SnapMirror specified on the Secondary Target tab cannot update these relationships. Cause Unfortunately this is a bug in the OnTap Data Management software. In the event of a switchover Veeam Backup&Replication cannot...

USB Device is Not Backed Up by Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows

Challenge A USB storage device attached to a Windows machine is not backed up by Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows despite the "Include external USB drives" option being selected. Cause Due to limitations within the Microsoft VSS functionality, creating a shadow copy of a removable device, such a...

Veeam Backup & Replication Fails to Connect to Linux Servers Due to Firewall Configuration

Challenge Veeam Backup & Replication may fail to connect to some Linux servers depending on their firewall configuration. For example, distributions based on Debian, SLES, or RHEL have default firewall configurations that may block necessary connections. Cause Linux OS firewall configuration and/...

Restored UEFI-based Windows 2008 R2 SP1 cannot be booted in Hyper-V environment

Challenge After successfully restoring a UEFI-based machine running Server 2008 R2 SP1 to a Hyper-V host, the VM fails to boot. Cause The machine fails to boot due to a machine configuration that conflicts with Hyper-V. For Hyper-V guest Virtual Machines, Server 2008 R2 is only support for use wi...

Veeam Availability Console U1 Cumulative Patch 1850

Challenge Veeam Availability Console U1 Cumulative Patch 1850. This update supersedes Veeam Availability Console U1 Cumulative Patch 1824. Cause Please confirm you are running version 2.0.2.1750 or later prior to installing this cumulative patch 1850. You can check this under Windows Programs and...

Veeam Marks a Data Tape as a Cleaning Tape

Challenge One or more non-cleaning tape cartridges have become marked as cleaning tapes and may not appear in the Veeam Backup & Replication console. Cause Cause 1: CLN Barcodes Per the LTO barcode standard, a barcode that begins with the prefix CLN is considered a cleaning tape. If for some...

Dell PowerPath - Veeam Agent for Linux Limitations

Challenge If a Linux server has Dell PowerPath devices attached, all the underlying block devices representing the network paths to the server are skipped from processing. This will result in the error "No objects to backup" or PowerPath devices missing from the backup. If non-PowerPath devices a...

Backup jobs using Virtual Appliance (HotAdd) transport mode take longer after installing 9.5 Update 3a

Challenge After installing Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 3a, the backup duration may be significantly increased for jobs using the Virtual Appliance HodAdd transport mode. Other transport modes NBD/NBDSSL, Direct SAN, Direct NFS are not affected. Cause This is a known issue affecting VMwa...

Protecting the Veeam Backup & Replication server

Purpose This article provides information about protecting the Veeam Backup & Replication Configuration. This addresses the frequently asked question: "How do I back up or protect the Veeam Server?" The only supported way to protect the configuration of Veeam Backup & Replication is to use the...

Quantum storage devices may have a known Linux bug

Challenge To identify if a known linux bug is the cause for errors on a backup repository. Cause You will see a job fail with "unable to mkdir /var/log/sudo-io : File exists", this is caused by a bug in some versions of the sudo application. Solution Some quantum storage device's operating system...

Update Veeam MP Core Services to Support TLS 1.2 Protocol

Challenge Starting with vSphere 6.5, the TLS protocol version 1.2 is enabled by default. Cause To allow Veeam Virtualization Extensions Service and Veeam VMware Collectors to connect to vCenter Servers that use the TLS 1.2 protocol, you must update Veeam MP core services. Solution NOTE: The...

VeeamZIP licensing VMs in Full version of Veeam

Challenge VeeamZIP began using a license up in paid versions after 9.5.0.1536. Cause This was expected behavior, but the decision has been made to change this behavior in order to allow users to back up VMs with VeeamZIP without using a license. Solution This will be fully changed in future...

vCenter tags collection/assignment using PowerCLI tool

Challenge In some cases, Veeam ONE cannot collect or assign vCenter tags properly on vCenter 5.x versions. You can identify the issue by the following error messages in the Veeam ONE Reporter log files: Failed to execute SOAP command "CInvSvcCreateCategory". Inventory Service was not created. Can...

Restore/SureBackup from old DC restore point fails due to shadow copy expiration

Challenge DC restore results in DSRM boot and event id 1918 from ActiveDirectoryDomainService stating: The shadow copy service cannot restore Active Directory Domain Services because the shadow copy used is too old. Copy Cause The backup of the DC is older than the tombstone period. Active...

How to Change Credentials for a Shared Folder in a File to Tape Job

Purpose This article documents how to change credentials used to connect to a UNC path added to a File Backup to Tape job. Solution To add an SMB share to a File Backup to Tape job, the SMB share must be added in the Inventory view under File Shares SMB Shares section. To change which credentials...

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...

Backup jobs stop working with NetApp SteelStore Cloud Integrated storage after upgrading to Veeam version 9

Challenge Aafter upgrading Veeam Backup & Replication to version 9, backup jobs to a NetApp repository based on a SteelStore host platform fail. The following error message can be seen in the job logs: " Error File not found. File name: \\PathToShare\BackupFolder\JobName.vbm" The NetApp log...

Cannot find a restore point newer than the seed

Challenge The replication job completes with the warning: Cannot find a restore point newer than the seed Cause This warning occurs when the replication job has been: configured to seed from a repository that contains seed backup files that are as current as the backup job that generated them. or...

Windows Repository with Data Deduplication error: "The requested operation could not be completed due to a file system limitation"

Article Applicability The error "The requested operation could not be completed due to a file system limitation " can occur for various reasons. This article highlights one possible cause that may occur when a Windows Repository is backed by an NTFS volume that uses Windows Data Deduplication and...

Web Client Plug-in error: “invalid Single Sign-On token”

Challenge When a new user of the vSphere web client attempts to access the Veeam Web Client Plug-in, they encounter the following error: Server error: Failed to login to Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager. Login failed due to invalid Single Sign-On token Cause To successfully obtain statistics from...

Hyper-V backup job fails to create shadow copy with default shadow storage limit

Challenge Backup or replication of a Hyper-V VM fails. In the Windows event logs on the Hyper-V host server, there is an error with ID 8193 from source VSS: Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error calling routine Cannot find anymore diff area candidates for volume...

Patch 1 Release Notes for Veeam ONE 6.5.0.676

Challenge Patch 1 for Veeam ONE 6.5.0.676 resolves a number of issues described in this article. All patches are cumulative, which means that this patch includes all fixes listed below. Cause Prior to applying this patch, make sure you are running Veeam ONE version 6.5.0.676. You can check this...

Veeam ONE Monitor performance data collection times out

Challenge You are facing the following configuration issue: Veeam ONE Monitor performance graphs show the No Data Available message. Cause VeeamDCS.log file contains the following errors: ​Collecting thread has failed to initialize The operation has timed out and will be stopped Collecting thread...

Reverse incremental job scheduling does not work properly

Challenge Reverse incremental job starts ignoring their scheduled settings, and run on the days selected for Synthetic Fulls, even when the check-box is grayed out. Solution To resolve the issue you need to enable forward incremental mode in the job settings and deselect "Enable synthetic fulls"...

Unable to Use the "Processes" Tab in Veeam ONE

Challenge The following message is displayed when opening the Processes tab in Veeam ONE Client for a Virtual Machine: Failed to connect to the Guest OS. Verify that server is up, running, and accessible to Veeam ONE server. Solution Please ensure that the prerequisites are met: VMware vSphere...

“Nvram” File is Missing on Target Replica Location

When a replication job starts, it fails right away with the following error message: External FIB refers to non-existing file. FIB: VMname.nvram...

Failed to write data to the file *.vbk - file too large

Challenge The job fails with the "File too large" error. ERR |Command 'FibWrite0x000x7effec02c0d0' has failed. Failed to process method Transform.Patch: File too large Cause The file system or operating system of the Linux repository does not support the size of the backup file. The maximum file...

SureBackup: A connection attempt failed

Challenge Cause Veeam Backup & Replication is not able to connect to the Virtual Lab and grab network settings from the web server. Solution If you assign a proxy appliance an IP address from the same network where the Veeam B&R server is located, Veeam B&R will automatically add a new route to t...

Windows File Level Restore causes Windows crash (the “blue screen” error) on the Veeam Backup server.

Challenge During File Level Restore, the Windows "blue screen" error occurs on the Veeam Backup Server. You cannot restore any guest OS files and Veeam Backup server crashes. Cause When restoring files with Windows File Level Restore from a backup or a replica, the Veeam Backup server crashes wit...

Backup job fails with error: Insufficient system resources exist to complete the requested service.

Challenge The following entry can be seen in the log file: Client error: Insufficient system resources exist to complete the requested service Cause The error is relayed by Veeam Backup & Replication from the underlying Windows OS. Solution As the underlying Windows OS is reporting this error,...