Backup or Backup Copy Job for SharePoint, OneDrive, or Teams Data Fails With: "Cannot find object"

Challenge After upgrading Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 to v8 builds 8.0.2.159 or 8.0.2.200, an incremental backup or a backup copy job protecting SharePoint, OneDrive, or Teams data fails with the error: Cannot find object ... Cause In Object Storage Repositories, the metadata saved for the...

How to Disable Boot Prompt in Veeam Agent for Windows Recovery Media

Version Requirement Requires Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows version 6.3, which is included with Veeam Backup & Replication 12.3. Purpose This article documents how to disable the 'Press any key to boot from CD or DVD... " prompt that appears when booting from the Veeam Agent for Microsoft...

Repository upgrade error: "Some of the data in this repository is incompatible with the immutability settings."

Solution Requires Data Deletion The resolution procedure of this article involves the directed deletion of backup data that should not have been migrated to the immutable repository. Please review all details of the article closely, and contact Veeam Support if you would like assistance. Challeng...

Veeam Backup & Replication Install Fails with: "A later version of Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Exchange is already installed."

Challenge When attempting to install Veeam Backup & Replication version 12.1, 12.2, or 12.3 on a machine where Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 version 8 is already installed, the Veeam Backup & Replication install fails with the error: A later version of Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Exchange is...

Error: could not get determine if bucket supports versioning: Access Denied

Challenge Veeam Kasten for Kubernetes is unable to monitor or refresh the retention period of the data in the S3 bucket and cannot calculate the lock duration based on your retention setting because of this issue. This will show up as an error message in the notification bar: error: can't connect...

Clone Job Fails Due to Security Context Constraints (SCC) Issue

Challenge Cloned-restore jobs time out and eventually fail because an application's security context provides permissions in the original application namespace. This results in the application's pod being in a non-running state. Example: Namespace = quay-enterprise SCC during deployment = anyuid...

PVC Export Fails Due to Timeout

Challenge The export action will fail if Veeam Kasten for Kubernetes takes more than 45 minutes to complete the job. Checking the export action details, the message below is the clue where Veeam Kasten for Kubernetes hits the timeout for the operation waitWithBackoffwithRetries with the duration...

Upgrading Veeam Kasten for Kubernetes Fails With Parse Error

Challenge When upgrading to Veeam Kasten for Kubernetes 6.5.3 or higher the upgrade fails with: parse error at k10/templates/v0services.yaml:128: function "continue" not defined Cause This issue is related to the Helm binary version that is installed. Solution To resolve this issue, download the...

How to Enable Changed Block Tracking for Guest Cluster on vSphere with Tanzu

Purpose Changed Block Tracking is a VMware feature that tracks changes in virtual disks. Veeam Kasten for Kubernetes uses this feature in vSphere with Tanzu Guest Clusters to efficiently back up Persistent Volumes. Enabling Changed Block Tracking in each Supervisor Cluster where Veeam Kasten for...

Job For .local Domain Fails When Using Ubuntu-base VMware Backup Proxy

Challenge Backup of VMware VMs fails when using an Ubuntu-based Linux VMware Proxy, and the VMware environment is added to Veeam with an FQDN ending in .local e.g., esxi.somedomain.local. In the Task Log, errors related to NFC connectivity can be found: Processing Error: NFC storage connection is...

VSS Snapshot Creation Delay on Server with DFSR Enabled

Article Applicability The issue described in this article affects earlier versions of Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows VAW, however, the solution provided will only work with VAW 6.1.2 and higher. Challenge When backing up a server with the DFS feature enabled, the VSS snapshot creation step in...

Release Information for Veeam Backup for AWS 7 Patch 1

Requirements Please confirm that you are running version Veeam Backup for AWS 7 build 7.0.0.615 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 Backup for A...

Release Information for Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV 5 Cumulative Patches

Important Note Due to a potential issue in Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV 5.0, which may negatively affect backup chains under specific circumstances, it is strongly recommended that you prepare a maintenance window to upgrade to Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV 5.1 as soon as you are able - prior...

Restore/Failover/SureBackup of Virtual Machines running Windows 8.1/Window Server 2012 R2 (or older) triggers chkdsk if Veeam Backup Server or Mount Server is Running Windows Server 2022 (or newer)

Challenge In the following scenarios, a Virtual Machine1 that was running Server 2012 R2/Windows 8.1 or lower will perform chkdsk on the first boot if the Veeam Backup Server is running Server 2022: A non-Domain Controller VM is being tested by SureBackup with the "Automatically disable Windows...

The Veeam KB Resource Hub

Top 10 Most Popular KBs for Q1 2026 1. KB1832: How to Collect Logs for Veeam Backup & Replication 2. KB1999: Antivirus Exclusions for Veeam Backup & Replication 3. KB4687: Unable to Interact with Some Hypervisors and Cloud Platforms 4. KB1471: How to Manually Back Up Veeam Configuration Databases...

Release Information for Veeam Recovery Orchestrator 6 Cumulative Patches

Requirements This Cumulative Patch can be used to: update manually from a previous Veeam Recovery Orchestrator 6 release to the latest Cumulative Patch. upgrade an existing Veeam Recovery Orchestrator 5 server to Veeam Recovery Orchestrator 6 with the latest Cumulative Patch. install a new...

Build Numbers and Versions of Veeam Backup for AWS

This KB article lists all versions of Veeam Backup for AWS and their respective build numbers. For more information on deploying the latest version of Veeam Backup for AWS , visit: Veeam Backup for AWS User Guide: Deploying Backup Appliance Veeam Backup for AWS User Guide: Updating Veeam Backup f...

Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 Auto-Update Fails - "Offline thumbprint check failed: certificate is invalid"

Challenge Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365's auto-update activated via the user interface may fail with: Offline thumbprint check failed: certificate is invalid. Cause This error is related to the Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 updater's certificate checks. Solution This issue was resolved starting...

Release Information for Veeam Service Provider Console v6 Patch 1

Requirements Please confirm you are running Veeam Service Provider Console version 6.0.0.7739 or later before installing Patch 1. You can check this by logging in to the backup portal and navigating to theConfiguration Support Information tab. After upgrading, your server build will be 6.0.0.8787...

Release Information for Veeam Backup for Red Hat Virtualization 1.0

Beta Support Support for this Public Beta release will be provided to all customers with a valid support contract for other Veeam products. Veeam Backup for Red Hat Virtualization , a feature of Veeam Backup & Replication, provides the necessary capabilities to meet your backup targets and servic...

Missing vCenter entries in settings for vCloud Director

Challenge When adding/editing vCloud Director Server in Veeam Backup & Replication the vCenter Servers list is missing vCenter entries. The console log contains the following errors: Error Failed to retrieve VC info Error Failed to parse GUID from string Error Guid should contain 32 digits with 4...

Release Information for Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure v2a

Requirements You can check your build number under Configuration | Support Information | About | Server version by clicking the gear icon at the top-right corner of the main menu in Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure. After installing, your build number will be 2.0.0.337. What's New The new version...

How to split entire organization backup job on per-service basis

Challenge It might be required to create a backup job that would only process a particular Microsoft Office 365 service. This might help to improve backup performance of each service as well as to isolate performance issue to a particular service. Solution This example demonstrates creating a...

Authorization for organizations with modern app-only authentication fails due to expired SSL certificate

Challenge An attempt to authenticate a tenant connection using Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 REST API fails with an invalid/expired certificate error. Cause The SSL certificate for the login.microsoftonline.com site has expired in the local certificate store. Solution To update an expired...

Veeam Service Provider Console v5 Patch 3

This patch has been superseded by Veeam Service Provider Console v5 Patch 4. Requirements Please confirm you are running version 5.0.0.6726 or later before installing Patch 3. You can check this by logging in to the backup portal and navigating to the Configuration Support Information tab. After...

Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 5b cumulative patch KB4158

This update has been superseded by Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 5с Requirements Please confirm you are running Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 build 5.0.1.179, 5.0.1.207, or 5.0.1.225 prior to installing this cumulative patch KB4158. You can check this under Help and Support About in Veeam Backu...

How to Configure Connections Required for Veeam Backup for Google Cloud in Highly Secured Environments

If your backup appliance is deployed in a highly secured environment with all outbound connections restricted, you must perform the following configuration steps to make Veeam Backup for Google Cloud function properly: 1. Allow internet access to the following Google Cloud APIs: Compute Engine AP...

AWS User Account Permissions for Deployment of Veeam Backup for AWS Appliance

This article documents the granular permissions needed for deploying a new Veeam Backup for AWS appliance...

Veeam Service Provider Console Plugin for ConnectWise Automate opens empty configuration in ConnectWise Automate Control Center

Challenge After successfully installing the Veeam Service Provider Console Plugin for ConnectWise Automate, the Integration tab for Veeam Service Provider Console displays no data. Cause Lack of permissions for account used to log in to ConnectWise Automate and coexistence of 2 plugins: Veeam...

Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 Upgrade Paths

Shared Server with Veeam Backup & Replication If Veeam Backup & Replication is installed on the same server as Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, upgrade Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 before upgrading Veeam Backup & Replication. Shared Server Compatibility of Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 and Veea...

How to Assign Permissions to Service Accounts Used by Veeam Backup for Google Cloud Platform

Challenge Veeam Backup for Google Cloud Platform requires a service account in each GCP project where data protection and disaster recovery tasks will be performed. The tasks include the following: Creating Snapshots Manually Performing Backup Perform Restore Adding Backup Repositories Create...

Support for IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions

Support Statement IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions provides full bare metal and hypervisor access and complete administrative permissions to vCenter, NSX, and any additional services. This ensures customers who transition their VMware infrastructure to IBM Cloud can expect a consistent level of...

Release Information for Veeam Management Pack for Microsoft System Center 9

This version has been superseded by Veeam Management Pack for Microsoft System Center version 9a. Requirements Please confirm that you are running version 8.0 build 8.0.0.2218 or later prior to upgrading. You can check this in the Operations Manager console under Administration, Management Packs...

How to Deploy FLR Relay Proxy

Deprecated Feature The FLR Relay Proxy feature described in this article was deprecated in Veeam Backup for AWS 7. In deployments where the feature was enabled before upgrading to Veeam Backup for AWS 7, the FLR Relay tab will still appear in the options. However, for Veeam Backup for AWS 7...

Deploying Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 Backup Proxy Server in AWS

Challenge You need to configure an Amazon EC2 instance to act as a Backup Proxy for Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 in AWS. For example, this may be required for the following reasons: The current proxy/deployment has or will reach configuration maximums. Growth within the Organizations. You need ...

Veeam Backup & Replication 10 Cumulative Patch 1

More Recent Version Available Please find the latest version of Veeam Backup & Replication here: Veeam Downloads - Latest Version Requirements Please confirm that you are running version 10 build 10.0.0.4461 prior to installing this update. You can check this under Help | About in the Veeam Backu...

How to Reset Password in Veeam Backup for AWS

Related User Guide Page Veeam Backup for AWS User Guide: Accessing Web UI from Workstation Challenge You may need to reset a password in Veeam Backup for AWS. Solution Make sure that the machine you are using for troubleshooting is in the list of allowed IP addresses in the Security Groups of you...

Potential data loss during Export Backup retention processing

Challenge In the environments using scale-out backup repository, Export Backup retention logic may delete the entire repository folder, if the required exported backup file has already been deleted manually prior to its set retention policy expiration. This issue affects Veeam Backup & Replicatio...

Release Information for Veeam Availability for Nutanix AHV 1.0 Update 3

Challenge Release Notes for Veeam Availability for Nutanix AHV 1.0 Update 3. This update supersedes Veeam Availability for Nutanix AHV 1.0 Update 2. Solution Veeam Availability for Nutanix AHV 1.0 Update 3 includes improvements and fixes for series of issues. The most critical ones are listed...

Veeam Availability Console v3 Patch 3 (build 2762)

Challenge Veeam Availability Console v3 Patch 3 build 2762. This update supersedes Veeam Availability Console v3 Patch 2 build 2725. Cause Please confirm you are running version 3.0.0.2647 or later prior to installing this Patch 3. You can check this under Windows Programs and features. After...

Veeam Support Statement for SAP HANA 1.0

Since the release of Veeam Backup & Replication v11 , Veeam Plug-in for SAP HANA fully supports SAP HANA 1.0 SPS12 database systems. Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 4 until v10a support it as "Experimental". For details on experimental support, see KB 2976. To read the official SAP statemen...

Slow performance for a single tenant database backup of the SAP HANA system

Challenge When backing up a small 128 GB tenant/system DB of SAP HANA, the backup performance might be comparatively slower than a file based backup or using a different backup solution. Cause After several customers pointed out the performance degradation - compared to file based backups - the...

Release Information for Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 4

More Recent Version Available Please find the latest version of Veeam Backup & Replication here: Veeam Downloads - Latest Version Challenge Release information for Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 4 Cause Please confirm that you are running version 9.0 Update 2 build 9.0.0.1715 or later prio...

SQL Log Truncation and Log Backup Silently Fails After Installing Veeam 9.5 Update 3

Challenge After installing Veeam 9.5 Update 3, SQL logs are not truncated during backup, but the truncation task is still marked as a success in the job statistics. SQL Log Backup sessions complete with 0 KB transferred. You can confirm if any SQL VMs are affected by this change by checking the...

Repository Unavailable to Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows Installed on a Veeam Backup and Replication Server

Challenge The behavior described here can be observed in the following configuration: - multiple installations of Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows VAW are targeted at a Veeam Backup and Replication VBR repository within the same domain; - all VAW-processed computers are added to an AD computer...

Restoring GPT Disk to Incompatible Legacy BIOS System

Challenge After selecting a restore point during the bare metal restore configuration, the following message pops up: OS disk in backup uses GPT disk. This may cause boot issues on BIOS systems. If this is ignored and the restore process completes, the following may happen when the restored machi...

VESQL database restore to Always On Availability Groups with automatic seeding enabled is hanging

Challenge VESQL database restore to Always ON Availability Group with automatic seeding enabled SQL 2016 SP1 and later does not work. Veeam SQL Explorer log shows repeating records like: 10/23/2017 8:19:22 PM 11 5160 SQL query: ALTER DATABASE SET HADR AVAILABILITY GROUP = 10/23/2017 8:19:32 PM 11...

Veeam ONE Business Shows Irrelevant Data

Challenge Veeam ONE Business View shows outdated data or no data at all Cause Veeam ONE Reporter collection task has stuck or failed Solution Running data collection manually You can run data collection for Veeam ONE Reporter and Veeam ONE Business View manually. This can be necessary when...

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...

Using standalone Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows with a Microsoft Failover Cluster

Purpose This article documents limitations and considerations for Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows when installed in a Microsoft Failover Cluster. Solution Microsoft Failover Clusters are fully supported by Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows when managed by Veeam Backup & Replication. Veeam Agent...