Restore Fails for Database with Consecutive Backslash Characters in File Path

Challenge Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SQL Server reports the error: Inconsistent database metadata. See the log for details. Cause One or more database file paths contained multiple consecutive backslash characters when the SQL server was backed up. Solution Clarifying Issue This issue cannot be...

Failed job is marked as Successful on the Cloud Provider side

Challenge In some cases a SP backup server receives "Success" status of a tenant job even when the job has failed on the Tenant's server. Cause Generally, cloud job sessions are marked failed on the SP backup server in the following cases: All cloud gateways are unavailable There is not enough...

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...

Standalone Tape Fails All Operations

Standalone Tape Fails All Operations...

Veeam Backup & Replication add-on for Kaseya compatibility with Veeam Backup & Replication 9.x

The Kaseya plug-in for Veeam Backup & Replication was discontinued in 2019 and is no longer available nor supported by Veeam. Challenge Veeam Backup & Replication add-on for Kaseya needs to support Veeam Backup & Replication 9.x monitoring. Cause The names of Veeam Backup & Replication services...

Collection of historical performance data fails after upgrading to vSphere 5.5 Update 3

Challenge After update to vCenter 5.5 U3 historical performance collection fails with error "Unable to collect performance. A specified parameter was not correct. querySpec.size". Cause With vCenter 5.5 Update 3 VMware has limited the size of query in order to protect the vCenter database more...

Network traffic encryption enabled within job when no rule has been set and the Veeam server has a Public IP

Challenge During the processing of a VM by Veeam Backup & Replication on a server with a Public IP, the notification stating "Network traffic will be encrypted" is shown even though no rule is in place within the network traffic rules. Cause By default Veeam Backup & Replication enables encryptio...

Backup Job or Backup Proxy rescan fails with “Failed to create processing task for VM Error: Disk 'GUID' not found”

After installing patch 1 for Veeam Backup & Replication 8, jobs may start to fail with the following error message:Error Failed to create processing task for VM Error: Disk ''...

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...

Job's Next Run Date Doesn't Match Schedule

Challenge The 'Next Run' date shown for a job does not match the settings selected in the Schedule tab of the job. For example, a job configured to run Monthly on the last Saturday displays a 'Next Run' date of the upcoming Saturday, which is not the last Saturday of the month. Cause This occurs...

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...

Issue with Hyper-V Reports in MP builds 7.0.0.1911 and 7.0.0.1913

Challenge The following Hyper-V reports show no performance data: Performance Forecast for Hyper-V Clusters Performance Forecast for Hyper-V Storage Host Failure Modelling What-If VM Deployment Planning model existing VMs What-If VM Deployment Planning manual resource entry Virtual Machines...

Existing Hyper-V backup and replication jobs processing VM with SCSI disks start to consume x2 space on target storage after upgrade to v8

Challenge After upgrading to v8 the following issues are observed with the existing jobs processing Hyper-V VMs with SCSI disks: 1. First backup job run will transfer entire VM disks into the incremental backup storage. The following job runs will operate normally - regular incremental restore...

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...

After replacing the license file, you get warnings about a “Grace Period” to renew the license in 4000 days

Challenge This article covers an issue which impacts the following versions differently, but is caused by the same issue. Veeam Backup & Replication 7 Veeam Backup & Replication 8 and 9 ─ ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Veeam Backup & Replication 7 ─...

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:...

Windows Server IoT/Windows Storage Server — Support Statement

Support Statement At Veeam, we understand that some customers may have hardware that comes pre-installed with Windows Server IoT or Windows Storage Server, and they may want to use these to fill the role of Veeam-product component servers. While Windows Server IoT and Windows Storage Server are...

VMware high latency feature resets to 'normal' after snapshot removal

Challenge The Latency Sensitivity option resets to 'normal' after VMware snapshot removal. This behavior persists regardless of any settings. Cause This is a known issue in ESXi 5.5.x. Please see the following KB article for more information: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2079787 Solution This issue wi...

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...

vCenter Connection Failover Requirements for SCOM Action Account

Challenge Although everything is set up according to the vCenter Connection Failover manual, the script fails. As a result, the following event appears in the Operations Manager Event Log on Veeam Virtualizations Extension Server VES with id: 995. vCenterFailover.ps1 : Error: Cannot open...

Release Information for Veeam Backup & Replication 7 Patch 1

More Recent Version Available Please find the latest version of Veeam Backup & Replication here: Veeam Downloads - Latest Version Challenge These are the issues resolved by Patch 1 for Veeam Backup & Replication 7.0.0.690. This is NOT a compatibility patch for vSphere 5.5. Cause Please confirm yo...

How to Manually Seed a Replica

Purpose Under certain circumstances, the seeding function used by a Replication job may not function correctly. If this occurs, an alternate seeding method is to manually pre-create the replica from a backup and then use the mapping function of the Replication job to map to that restored VM...

Moving custom attributes through import/export of CSV file

Purpose To export custom attributes from one installation of Business View to another, follow these steps: 1. Click Configuration in the top right corner of the screen and navigate to the Import/Export pane. 2. This step is not mandatory If you want to pre-designate which custom attributes Busine...

Event pre-filtering causes high vCenter Database load

Challenge The vCenter Database utilizes most of the available CPU, impacting vCenter Server performance. Stopping nworks Collectors brings the CPU usage back to normal. The nworks vmspi log shows the following errors: VCEVT+ VC250 retrieveEvents: createFilter failed, System.Net.WebException: The...

Veeam Backup & Replication - HP San Setup Guide

Challenge Veeam Explorer for SAN Snapshots lets you perform Veeam restores of entire VMs or individual items directly from HP StoreVirtual VSA and LeftHand snapshots. And like Explorer for Exchange, it's included in all editions of Veeam Backup & Replication. Cause This is a how-to guide on...

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...

Jobs missing from Enterprise Manager 6.5

Jobs disappeared from Enterprise Manager after upgrade to version 6.5.0.106...

Cannot open database requested by login. The login failed

Challenge When you try to access Veeam ONE Web UI, the following error occurs: Cannot open database requested by login. The login failed. Cause Veeam ONE Web UI configuration is missing information on the account used for SQL authentication. Solution To modify configuration settings, follow the...

Incorrect hardware status returned from vCenter 5 when collected through vSphere API

Challenge When nworks uses "Refresh Hardware" calls, hardware status is not updated on vSphere 5 Cause vSphere 5 does not update the hardware status data available through API - this can be verified in vSphere Managed Objects Browser, which shows an outdated status, while the host MOB will show t...

Incorrect performance values for some datastores on the Disk I/O chart

Challenge Incorrect performance values on the Disk I/O chart for some datastores. Cause When the same LUN is shared by multiple datastores, the Disk I/O chart for these datastores will show an overall activity for the LUN, rather than an activity for a specific datastore. Solution This is an...

Naming requirement for correct functioning of the "Guest to Agent Relationship" feature

Challenge To make the VM and OpsMgr Agent integration work properly, it is necessary that VMs discovered by the VMGUEST contains OpsMgr Agent discovery have an identical display name and NETBIOS name. Cause If the VMware display name is different from the NETBIOS name, the VM will have two source...

Exported Report From Veeam ONE Contains Nonfunctional Hyperlinks

Challenge The embedded links in exported Veeam ONE reports are inactive. Cause Embedded links are inactive in all report formats exported directly via Veeam ONE. When SSRS is integrated with Veeam ONE, additional report formats are available, some of which contain active embedded links. Solution...

VM Right-Sizing report fails with error "Query execution failed for dataset ‘AnalysisDS’"

Challenge VM Right-Sizing report fails with the following error: Query execution failed for dataset 'AnalysisDS'. Error converting data type varchar to numeric. Cause The error occurs because of unsupported decimal separator format on the Collector machine. A dot . is expected as the decimal...

How to get the nworksDEMO tool v5.7

Purpose You need to get nworksDEMO tool v5.7 to see nworks MP in action and be able to use it for offline demonstrations and training. Solution Browse to the nworksDEMO tool v5.7 landing page and submit your request using the online form: http://go.veeam.com/nworksdemo More Information If you hav...

Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {xxxxxxxx} failed due to the following error: 800700c1.

Creating or copying folders with Veeam FastSCP 3.0.3 fails with the error: Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID xxxxxxxx failed due to the following error: 800700c1...

Creating Replication Jobs in Backup & Replication version 6.x

Challenge How to create replication jobs. Solution To replicate virtual machines, you should create a replication job by means of the New Replication Job wizard. You can perform the created job immediately, schedule, or save it. Before You Begin • Prior to creating a replication job, make sure yo...

How to Install Veeam PowerShell Snapin

How to install Veeam Backup & Replication Powershell Snapin...

Hyper-V CSV Backup - Blue Screen

Challenge During Hyper-V backup via CSV, a node in Hyper-V connected to the CSV shows Blue Screen error and crashes. Cause This is a known Microsoft error requiring updates. Solution Apply hotfixes mentioned in these articles to resolve this behavior. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2494162...

How to Edit Multiple Alarms at the Same Time

Purpose This article provides supplemental information regarding batch alarm editing. As documented in the Veeam ONE Monitoring Guide, in batch editing mode, you can only change the Assignment, Notifications, Actions, and Suppression alarm settings. Solution For information about modifying multip...

Error executing SQL script during upgrade to Veeam Backup & Replication 6.0.0

Veeam Backup & Replication upgrade to version 6.0.0 fails with the error: Error executing SQL script DBupdate.sqlfilled. Line 5225. There is already an object named 'db50update in the database'...

"Object reference not set to an instance of an object" error while opening nworks UI

Error "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" occurs when opening nworks UI...

Troubleshooting Exchange AIR

Challenge You are not able to proceed through AIR wizard to perform application item recovery. You are not able to restore individual mailbox items. Cause vLab is misconfigured or you do not have sufficient permissions. Solution To address the issue, follow the steps below: 1. Make sure vLab is...

Server Running Enterprise Manager reboots repeatedly

Challenge After installing Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager, after rebooting the machine repeatedly reboots. When Veeam Enterprise Manager is installed with a remote DB, and the installer is run with different credentials than what is specified during the install, the wrong credentials will get...

SureBackup SQL Script Verification

A SureBackup job fails with "SQL Server script, path VmConnectionTester.exe, ErrCode 10061" due to port connection failures...

How to perform SureBackup recovery verification manually in Standard edition

Solution To start, use the Instant VM Recovery feature. For a boot up test, go through the Instant Recovery wizard and power on the VM, but do not select a checkbox to connect the VM to a network. Please note that since there is no network connectivity, some applications will not start since they...

Changed block tracking cannot be enabled: virtual hardware version 7 or later required

Challenge The backup or replication job is processed slower than expected and gives the warning message "changed block tracking cannot be enabled: virtual hardware version 7 or later required." The job works without Changed Block Tracking, and the "changed block tracking cannot be enabled: virtua...

Enterprise Manager works with http, but not with https

Challenge This article covers two scenarios: The Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager webpage is not able to be reached when using both HTTP and HTTPS. or The Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager webpage is accessible when using HTTP, but fails to load when using HTTPS. Solution Enterprise Manager Webpage ...

How to create a transactionally consistent backup of both Windows and Linux VMs

This KB describes configuration of consistent backup/replication jobs in Linux and Windows VMs...

Module DevicePowerOn power on failed

Challenge Cause Veeam B&R creates the new adaptor with settings specified in Virtual Lab properties, however it also forces the old MAC address to be used as you see in the vmx file of a restored machine, that's why VM fails to power on as it's expecting to see mac address from VMware range. When...