Failed to execute SQL scripts for Database

Challenge Upgrade from Veeam Backup & Replication 7 to 8 may fail with "Failed to execute SQL scripts for Database " Cause The issue is caused by mediapools which are not linked to any library but still contain tape media entries. This may happen when the library or standalone drive was exchanged...

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...

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...

Patch 1a Release Notes for Veeam Backup & Replication Add-on for Kaseya

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 Patch 1a Release Notes Cause Please confirm you are running version 1.0.0.168 prior to installing this patch. You ca...

Backup Catalog Service does not start. Error "Can't upgrade database in readonly maintenance mode!"

Challenge This KB applies only if the "Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager" service is present. The "Veeam Backup Catalog Data Service" will not start, and the following error is found in event viewer. "Service cannot be started. Veeam.Backup.Common.CRegeneratedTraceException: Failed to start service...

WAN Accelerator Quick Reference

Purpose This article provides links to documentation regarding Veeam Backup & Replication WAN Acceleration. User Guide Documentation How WAN Acceleration Works WAN Accelerator System Requirements WAN Acceleration Section WAN Accelerator Sizing Adding WAN Accelerators Best Practices Documentation...

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...

Incorrect values in the properties of objects in SCOM console

Challenge The collection of performance and events works fine, but during investigation of CPU/RAM properties of Hosts, Virtual Machines etc. unexpected values are revealed. For example ESXi host has 345.9 GB of RAM, but the SCOM property field contains 3459 GB. Cause SCOM processes these values...

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...

Veeam ONE Tuning for Larger Environments

Purpose Veeam ONE dropping data due to slow database performance when monitoring 1K+ VMs. Cause For efficient use of Veeam ONE in environments with 1 000+ VMs it is recommended to make scalability adjustments. Solution For better scalability it is possible to change real-time data to 1 datapoint ...

_VMware vCenter view is empty

Challenge VMware vCenter state view located in the Veeam for VMware\VMware vCenter folder is empty, though monitoring works fine, and Clusters, Hosts, VM's, etc. are populated in SCOM topology. Cause VMware vCenter in that view is monitored as Windows application inside the guest OS. Solution...

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...

Unknown drive type [ISO]

Challenge After applying patch 1 for 6.1.0.181 you are no longer able to backup or replicate Hyper-V virtual machines, jobs fail with the "Unknown drive type ISO" error. The following entries can be seen in the job log: timestamp Error Failed to parse drive xmlnode. Xml:...

High CPU Utilization for Veeam ONE SQL Database

Challenge When using the included Microsoft SQL Server Express Edition instance to host the Veeam ONE database, a portion of the total CPU cores available to the system have a disproportionality high CPU utilization. Cause This behavior is caused by the "Maximum compute capacity used by a single...

How to change default historical data collection period for Veeam ONE Server

Purpose By default, Veeam ONE Server collects historical performance data from a newly added virtual server for the last 3 months only. In some cases it is necessary to collect data for more than 3 months. Solution To change the default historical performance data collection period for Veeam ONE...

Performance metrics are not updated when a virtual machine is powered off

Challenge Sometimes SCOM can be showing irrelevant performance graphs for powered off VMs: Cause This is an expected behavior for the current version of nworks. When a virtual machine is powered off, WMI cache still contains outdated data. That is why graphs in SCOM are updated improperly. The...

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...

Veeam Backup Proxy server becomes unresponsive

Challenge The Veeam Backup server or the Backup Proxy server becomes completely unresponsive when disks of a backed up virtual machine are being hot-added to the server. Cause If CTK parameters are enabled on the Veeam Backup server or on the Backup Proxy server, the Virtual Appliance mode cannot...

How to Install Veeam PowerShell Snapin

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

Performing an AIR restore without Enterprise Manager

Purpose You wish to perform an AIR Exchange, Active Directory, or SQL item restore, but do not have Enterprise Manager installed. Solution To perform an AIR restore without Enterprise Manager, run the SureBackup job created for the restore. Once it is running and complete, open the session and...

Backups writing to C:\Windows\SysWOW64

Challenge In some cases, backup repositories automatically created by setup during upgraded from v5 may start writing data into C:\Windows\SysWOW64 if backup files used to reside in the root folder of the volume. Cause Root cause is still unknown but this KB will assist you in getting your jobs...

Veeam Backup & Replication Support for Rotated Media

Purpose This article provides links to documentation regarding Veeam Backup & Replication Repositories using Rotated Media. Solution Details about the functionality and configuration of repositories supporting rotated media can be found in the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide: Limitations of...

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...

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...

Veeam Backup for Salesforce Backend Service Fails to Start After Upgrading to Version 3.2.1 or Later

Challenge After Veeam Backup for Salesforce is upgraded from version 2.1.1 or earlier to version 3.2.1 or later, the vbsf-backend service fails to start. The state of the service can be confirmed with the following command: sudo systemctl status vbsf-backend Copy The output shows that the service...

Exchange Backup Jobs Run Longer Than Expected or Fail with: Contract schema check for the Exchange Online REST API failed

Challenge Exchange backup jobs in Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 or Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365 run far longer than expected or fail to complete. The job log contains the following warnings and errors: Warning: Failed to retrieve Exchange Online REST API cmdlet information Warning: HTTP...

Exports Don't Work After Veeam Kasten for Kubernetes Reinstall

Critical Warning The solution provided in this article results in data removal. These steps should only be followed when testing or evaluating Veeam Kasten for Kubernetes or if the existing data is no longer required. If you have any questions, please contact Support. Challenge Description: Jobs...

Cloned-Restore Fails on OpenShift Clusters with ImagePull Error

Challenge Cloned-restore jobs time-out and eventually fail due to an ImagePullError. Upon further investigation, the root cause is that the default SA in the target namespace does not have ImageStreams for the pod to pull an image from a private registry. Failed to pull image...

Veeam Backup for Google Cloud Backup Stuck at 0%

Challenge Backup policies in Veeam Backup for Google Cloud are stuck at 0% progress. Cause This situation is caused by Google recently updating the latest Ubuntu Linux machine image available in their cloud to ubuntu-2204-jammy-v20230829. The existing worker VM methods utilized in Veeam Backup fo...

Release Information for Veeam Backup for Red Hat Virtualization 3a

This release was superseded by Veeam Backup for Red Hat Virtualization 3b. Requirements The Veeam Backup for Red Hat Virtualization 3a Plug-In may be used as part of a new deployment or to upgrade an existing Veeam Backup for Red Hat Virtualization Plug-In running versions 2.x - 3.x. After...

Release Information for Veeam Backup for Google Cloud v3

Release Information for Veeam Backup for Google Cloud v3...

Release Information for Veeam Backup for AWS v5

Requirements Please confirm that you are running version Veeam Backup for AWS v3 build 3.0.0.319 or later before upgrading. You can find the currently installed build number Server Version in the About section under Configuration | Support Information. After installing Veeam Backup for AWS v5a,...

Integration with Veeam Backup Repositories for Kasten K10: Considerations and Limitations

Veeam Support Knowledge Base answer to: Integration with Veeam Backup Repositories for Kasten K10: Considerations and Limitations...

List of Security Fixes and Improvements in Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV

Purpose This article describes all security-related fixes and improvements introduced in each release or update of Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV. This article aims to provide our customers' security and compliance teams with detailed information on security improvements between releases to help th...

How to Disable Warnings for Veeam Enterprise Plug-Ins

Challenge After upgrading to Veeam Backup & Replication 11a build 11.0.1.1261, Enterprise Plug-in backups display the warning: Backup metadata is not up to date. Please upgrade the backup. Copy Cause Starting with Veeam Backup & Replication 11, a new backup file format is used for Enterprise...

Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 5c cumulative patch KB4187

This update has been superseded by Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 5d. Requirements Please confirm you are running Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 build 5.0.2.22 prior to installing this cumulative patch KB4187. You can check this under Help and Support About in Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365...

Veeam Agent for Linux install on EOL CentOS fails with a repository error

Challenge When installing Veeam Agent for Linux on a version of CentOS that has reached End of Life, the install fails with messages similar to the following: CentOS 8: Error: Failed to download metadata for repo 'appstream': Cannot prepare internal mirrorlist: No URLs in mirrorlist Copy CentOS 6...

Release Information for Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 5.0

Requirements Please confirm that you are running one of the following versions of Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 before upgrading to 5.0: 3.0 build 3.0.0.422 4.0 build 4.0.0.1345 4a builds 4.0.0.1553, 4.0.0.1580 4b builds 4.0.0.2516, 4.0.0.2549 4c builds 4.0.1.519, 4.0.1.531, 4.0.1.545 You can...

Veeam Backup for Google Cloud Recovery/Migration Procedure

Challenge This article explains how to recover Veeam Backup for Google Cloud data in case the backup appliance gets corrupted and requires the data to be moved to a new instance as the data contains important information about restore points, repositories, policies and so on. Solution Recommended...

Veeam Support for Azure Stack Edge

Overview Veeam supports using Veeam Agents for Windows and Linux to backup virtual machines running on Azure Stack Edge Compute. Microsoft Azure Stack Edge brings compute and storage to the edge where data is created. Veeam Support for Azure Stack Edge Compute is separate to the support for Azure...

Veeam Agent for Linux - Expired Sectigo RootCA Certificates

Challenge Veeam Agent for Linux connecting to a Cloud Repository with a seemingly valid Cloud certificate fails with "certificate has expired". Cause On May 30th of 2020, Sectigo had an expired Root CA that will not be updated due to the age of the certificate...

Veeam Service Provider Console v4 Patch 2

Challenge Veeam Service Provider Console v4 Patch 2. Cause Please confirm you are running version 4.0.0.4877 or later before installing this Patch 2. You can check this by logging in to the backup portal and navigating to Configuration Support Information tab. After upgrading, your server build...

"Reprotect storage volumes after failover" operation fails during storage plan execution

Challenge If you enable the "Trigger reverse replication to reprotect the failed-over volumes" option when running a storage plan, Veeam Recovery Orchestrator triggers the operation of resynchronizing the SnapMirror relationship in the reverse direction. In a reverse resynchronization operation,...

Veeam Backup & Replication support for HPE Cloud Volumes Backup

Veeam Backup & Replication v10 provides official support for HPE Cloud Volumes Backup. HPE Cloud Volumes Backup is a cloud-based backup service from HPE that emulates on-premises StoreOnce Catalyst Stores and can be used by Veeam Backup & Replication as a backup target that will automatically pro...

Release information for Veeam Service Provider Console v4

Requirements Please confirm that you are running version 3 build 3.0.0.2647 or later prior to upgrading. You can check this under Configuration | Support Information in the Veeam Service Provider Console UI. After upgrading, your build number will be 4.0.0.4877. To upgrade from earlier versions,...

Support Statement - Object Storage Gateway Software

Object Storage Offloading Third-Party Object Storage Offloading Software These third-party applications are designed to help upload files to cloud storage. What is Supported Third-party object storage gateway software is only supported if all backup data written to the repository by Veeam Backup ...

The 'Veeam VMware: Datastore Unknown Files Analysis' Monitor Triggers Excessive Alerts

Challenge Situations customers may face that this article covers: The Veeam VMware: Datastore Unknown Files Analysis monitor triggers excessive alerts. The Veeam VMware: Datastore Unknown Files Analysis monitor and the Scan Datastore for Unknown Files Task show different results. The UnknownFiles...

Service plan is not found when adding Office 365 organization

Connecting to the Office 365 organization fails with the “Check Exchange plan: No Exchange plan found” or “Check SharePoint plan: No SharePoint plan found” error...

Veeam Backup for Office 365 No E-Mail Notification After Job Run

Challenge When the backup job completes the Job notification is never received. Cause 1. Error: Unable to connect to the remote server 2. Job completes with no Error, but you do not receive a notification email. This can be caused by: Email relay server blocking emails that exceed 512KB size The...