Additional Information on Cost Estimation in Veeam Backup for Google Cloud

Challenge The cost estimation feature allows you to approximately estimate the costs of Google Cloud resources required to run data protection operations for a backup policy. You can obtain granular information on how much costs running the policy will incur, with an option to export the estimati...

Veeam Support For Azure FIles

This article provides information around Veeam Backup & Replication support for Microsoft Azure Files. Note that it is possible to protect Azure Files natively with Azure Files Policies in Veeam Plug-In for Microsoft Azure. This article specifically discusses using Veeam Backup & Replication in...

Veeam Agent for Oracle Solaris Skips Hidden ZFS Snapshots

Challenge Veeam Agent for Oracle Solaris does not back up hidden ZFS snapshots. Cause Veeam Agent for Oracle Solaris cannot back up hidden ZFS snapshots that are explicitly specified as a source for backup. This is a by-design limitation from Oracle. By default, the .zfs directory is not visible...

Release Information for Veeam ONE 10a

Challenge Release Information for Veeam ONE 10a build 10.0.2.1094. Cause Please make sure you are running version 9.5.0.3801 9.5 Update 3 or later prior to installing this update. You can check this under Windows Programs and Features. After upgrade, your build will be version 10.0.2.1094. Soluti...

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...

How to create IAM Policy

Please refer to: How to create an IAM policy in the AWS Management Console If this KB article did not resolve your issue or you need further assistance with Veeam software, please create a Veeam Support Case. To submit feedback regarding this article, please click this link: Send Article Feedback...

Release Information for Veeam ONE 9.5 Update 4

Challenge Release information for Veeam ONE 9.5 Update 4 Cause Please confirm you are running version 9.0.0.2088, 9.5.0.3201, 9.5.0.3254 or 9.5.0.3801 prior to installing this update. You can check this under Help | About in Veeam ONE console. After upgrading, your build will be version 9.5.4.456...

Tenant's Remote Management status is Unknown

Challenge After installing Update 4 for Veeam Backup & Replication 9.4, a Cloud Connect tenant's Remote Management status is shown as Unknown. Cause This is a minor UI issue in Update 4 that doesn't have any impact on Product functionality, Remote Management should work as usual. Solution The iss...

Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v2 cumulative patch KB2809

Challenge Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v2 cumulative patch KB2809. Cause Please confirm you are running Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 version 2.0.0.567 or 2.0.0.594 see KB2765 for more details prior to installing this cumulative patch KB2809. You can check the product version under Help About ...

How to Move Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV Backup Files

Purpose This article documents how to migrate Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV backup files to a different Veeam Backup & Replication Repository. Solution Considerations and Limitations This process only works when moving backup files between Repositories of the same Veeam Backup & Replication server...

Certificate expiration date

Challenge The following error message appears when starting Veeam Backup and Replication console: Cause Veeam Backup and Replication self-signed certificate expires 11 months after installation. The certificate is renewed, but Veeam Backup Service still has information about the old one in the...

Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v2 cumulative patch KB2765

Challenge Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v2 cumulative patch KB2765 Cause Please confirm you are running Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 version 2.0.0.567 prior to installing this cumulative patch KB2765. You can check this under Help About in Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 console. After upgradin...

Veeam Service Provider Console – Compile and Upload ConnectWise Manage Plugin Logs

This article covers how to properly compile your Veeam Service Provider Console ConnectWise Manage Plugin logs...

WinRM Service cannot process the Request

Challenge When attempting to add an On-Prem or Hybrid organization to Veeam Backup for Office 365 the following error occurs: The WinRM service cannot process the request because the request needs to be sent to a different machine. Use the redirect information to send the request to a new machine...

Snapshot Summary report Sort by size hotfix

Challenge The "Sort by Size" option does not work in the following reports properly: 1. Virtual Machines. Snapshot Summary Veeam VMware Analysis Reports pack 2. Virtual Machines. Checkpoint Summary Veeam Hyper-V Analysis Reports pack Cause This is a known issue with the sorting function. Solution...

The LocalSystem account cannot be changed during the Update installation process

Challenge The Update installation cannot be performed because it requires the LocalSystem password to continue and it does not provide an option to change an existing account in the installation Wizard. Cause Veeam ONE Monitor Server service is running under the LocalSystem account which cannot b...

Unexpected file removal from datastore after failed NEA deployment

Challenge After a failed attempt to deploy NEA for tenants on the provider's side, all files from the datastore root folder including VM files are deleted. Cause This issue is caused by using only the " " space symbol for the NEA name and the deployment has failed. Veeam tries to detect failed NE...

Release Notes for Veeam ONE 9.5 Update 3

Challenge Release Notes for Veeam ONE 9.5 Update 3 Cause Please confirm you are running Veeam ONE 9.5 prior to installing this update. You can check this under Help | About in Veeam ONE Monitor Client , the build number should be 9.5.0.3201 or 9.5.0.3254. After upgrading, your version build will ...

Long Infrastructure Object Removal

Challenge Sometimes when you remove an infrastructure object vCenter or Hyper-V server from the Veeam ONE Monitor client, the removal process may take longer than expected. Cause Once you click the Remove server button from the infrastructure tree view, it could take some time to remove the data...

Update to Microsoft Entra Connect causes SQL VSS issues

Article Applicability This article is specific to environments where the Azure AD Connect or Microsoft Entra Connect package is installed on the machine where Microsoft SQL Server is installed. Challenge You receive the following error during the guest processing: Unable to release guest. Error:...

Veeam Management Pack for System Center integration with OMS

Challenge This KB contains information about the latest version of Veeam Management Pack integration with Microsoft Operations Management Suite. Cause The current version of OMS integration consists of the following components: - Veeam MP OMS Integration Pack MPB file that should be imported in...

Microsoft KB4013429 breaks Hyper-V 2016 Backup

Challenge After installing Microsoft KB4013429 update on a Hyper-V host, Hyper-V backups may fail. Removing the update may cause the host to enter a BSOD loop. Cause The problem appears only if KB4013429 update is installed not on all nodes of a Hyper-V cluster. In more detail, the issue persists...

Connection to Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager Fails After In-Place Upgrade From 2012(R2) to Server 2016/2019

Article Applicability This article documents an issue that is specifically related to in-place OS upgrades from Server 2012 and Server 2012 R2. Challenge After performing an in-place upgrade of the server hosting the Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager database from Server 2012 or 2012 R2 to Server...

Space Requirements for Backup Copy Jobs

Space Requirements for Backup Copy Jobs...

"Use Windows Session Credentials" options does not work for Veeam ONE Reporter and Business View websites

Challenge When using Internet Explorer , Veeam ONE Reporter and Business View websites keep asking for Windows credentials at logon despite enabling the "Use Windows session credentials" option. NOTE: Business View website is not available since version 9.5 Update 4. It was integrated with the...

Failed Load Library During Application Aware Processing of Oracle Running on Linux

Challenge When backing up a Linux VM running Oracle using Application-Aware Processing the following error occurs: Failed load library /u01/oracle/product/12.1.0.2/db1/lib/libclntsh.so. libmql1.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory when performing a backup Solution Confirm...

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...

Tape Write Operations Fail for MHVTL if Block Size Is Not Set to 64 KB

Challenge All tape write operations fail for MHVTL drives if the data block size is not set to 65,536 bytes. Cause Starting in Veeam Backup & Replication v9, a new algorithm for automatically selecting the data block size was implemented. The software will automatically detect the highest availab...

How to Force Enterprise Manager Login to Use Form-Based Authentication

Article Applicability This article applies to Veeam Backup & Replication 12.x and older, as in those versions, the default was for Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager to utilize a Windows Authentication pop-up key="useWindowsAuth" value="true". Starting in Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager v13, the...

Best Practices for Microsoft Data Deduplication

Purpose This article documents Best Practices, Limitations, and Considerations relating to the use of storage that has Microsoft Windows Deduplication enabled when storing backup files created and managed by Veeam Backup & Replication. Considerations and Recommendations CRITICAL Veeam strongly...

How to Clone a Job and Map Existing Backups to Clone

Feature License Requirement Consider the following: Starting in Veeam Backup & Replication 12.1 build 12.1.0.2131 , the job cloning functionality is available for all types of licenses. Prior to Veeam Backup & Replication 12.1 build 12.1.0.2131 , the job cloning functionality required an Enterpri...

Direct SAN Restore for thick disk VDDK error: One of the parameters supplied is invalid

Challenge When performing a write operation using Direct-SAN transport mode e.g., Entire VM Restore, VM Hard Disk Restore, or initial run of a replication job the task fails with the error: Unable to execute write operation using advanced transport, failing over to network mode... ERR |VDDK error...

LabTech Database Backup Tasks Run Too Long

Challenge With Veeam Plug-in for LabTech, the database backup tasks run for an extended period of time. Cause This happens due to the growth of pluginveeambrsystemlog table. Solution The issue should be fixed in later releases. In the meantime, a workaround is available. Download the fix here...

Guest OS and Guest DNS name properties are empty or not updating on Hyper-V virtual machines

Challenge Guest OS and Guest DNS name properties are empty or not updating on Hyper-V virtual machines Cause Veeam Management Pack 7.0 R2 for Hyper-V contains a bug which prevents these properties from being collected Solution Patch is available for Veeam Hyper-V Management Pack. Please contact...

CBT does not track changes correctly on VHDX disks files larger than 2 TB

Challenge Veeam Change Block Tracking CBT driver incorrectly parses virtual disk file change information causing jobs to failover to "full scan" incremental passes in case of VSS backup or to create an empty incremental backup in case of crash-consistent backup when both of the following conditio...

Installation of Veeam Backup & Replication version 8 fails

Challenge Installation of Veeam Backup & Replication fails with one of the following errors: 1. Cannot get 'Veeam Backup and Replication Service' service account name. or 2. Failed to use specified user account. Cause Both of these issues occur when reinstalling Veeam. Solution To resolve the...

Veeam ONE Database Partitioning

This article contains instructions about partitioning Veeam ONE database...

Unable to add DataDomain DDBoost repository connected over Fibre Channel

Challenge When adding DataDomain as a backup repository using DDBoost over Fibre Channel, the following error is shown: Failed to connect to 'DFC-'. --tr:Unable to initialize Data Domain connection. --tr:Failed to call DoRpc. CmdName: DDBoostCheckConnection. invalid argument. Err: 5008 Failed to...

Tape requires return to original slot , but it is already filled. Move tape manually, and retry operation

Challenge Inventory job or any tape jobs may fail with an error "Tape requires return to original slot , but it is already filled. Move tape manually, and retry operation" You may find following entries in the Job..TapeVmBackup.log / Job..TapeFilesBackup or Job.Tapelibraryinventory.TapeInventory:...

VMware CBT Data Corruption

This KB explains and details how to detect/prevent the VMware bug that exists in VMware ESXi 4.x and 5.x...

Tape configuration restore

Challenge Due to architecture limitations, configuration backups created with Veeam Backup & Replication 7.0 did not capture database records that were responsible for displaying VMs processed with jobs in the Veeam Backup & Replication console. These limitations applied to all types of jobs,...

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...

Locations to Check for Incorrect Username/Password Issues

Challenge Jobs fail with an error message indicating an incorrect user name or password. An account associated with Veeam is being locked out in Active Directory. Solution Below are the locations where accounts are configured within Veeam Backup & Replication and Backup Enterprise Manager...

Users and Roles: Account Setup and Permissions

Documentation Review the following documentation for more information: Veeam Backup & Replication Console - Roles and Users Veeam Backup & Replication Console - Permissions Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager - Accounts, Roles, and Delegated Restore Permissions If this KB article did not resolve your...

IBM Tape Library Not Listed in Device Manager under “Medium Changers”

Challenge IBM System Storage Tape Library does not appear under the heading Medium Changers in the Device Manager, preventing it from working with Veeam Backup & Replication. Cause The issue occurs when the Library Mode is set to Sequential within the IBM System Storage Tape Library configuration...

Error: Username or password is incorrect when adding vCloud Director

Challenge Encountering issue "Error: Username or password is incorrect" when adding vCloud Director to Veeam Backup & Replication. Solution 1. Verify that the correct password is being utilized. 2. Ports, Permissions, or DNS issues can cause this failure: 1. Ensure connectivity between the Veeam...

Installing Veeam Backup & Replication 6.5.0.144

Challenge You need to install Veeam Backup & Replication version 6.5.0.144. Solution To install Veeam Backup & Replication version 6.5.0.144, you must first install version 6.5.0.109 and then apply Patch 3. 1. Install the correct 32-bit or 64-bit version of Veeam Backup & Replication version...

Failed to register replica VM

Challenge When using vCenter 4.0 unable to perform replication if target host doesn't have the same vNetwork as source. Replica network re-mapping doesn't work either. Replication job fails to register replica VM with the following error: Failed to register VM, configFile 'Datastore01...

A required privilege is not held by the client

Domain Controller configuration fails with an error: A required privilege is not held by the client...

Dashboards fail with errors in Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2012

Challenge The Resource Pool dashboard, Virtual Applications dashboard, Resource Pool State and Virtual Application State views fail with the following error when accessed in Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2012: An item with the same key has already been added Cause This is a known...