Release Information for Veeam Disaster Recovery Orchestrator v4

Veeam Disaster Recovery Orchestrator 4.0 is superseded by Veeam Disaster Recovery Orchestrator 5.0. Requirements Please confirm that you are running version 3.0 build 3.0.0.1770 or later prior to upgrading. You can check this in the VAO UI | Administration tab | About. After upgrading, your build...

Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 5b cumulative patch KB4124

This patch is superseded by Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 5b cumulative patch KB4158 Requirements Please confirm you are running Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 build 5.0.1.179 prior to installing this cumulative patch KB4124. You can check this under Help and Support About in Veeam Backup for...

SMB credentials cached by macOS

Challenge After you change credentials for the SMB share in the backup policy settings and re-apply the backup policy, macOS may still use obsolete credentials to connect to the SMB share. As a result, if incorrect credentials are specified in the backup policy settings, the policy application an...

Release Information for Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 5a

This update has been superseded by Release Information for Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 5b. Requirements Please confirm that you are running one of the following versions of Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 before upgrading to 5a: 3.0 build 3.0.0.422 4.0 build 4.0.0.1345 4a builds 4.0.0.1553,...

How to change backup proxy type

Challenge A new backup proxy can be deployed with one of the two types - domain or workgroup. This article explains how you can change the type of a backup proxy after it has been added to the Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 infrastructure. Cause After you added a new backup proxy to the Veeam...

Connect to Veeam Backup for AWS appliance using private IP

Challenge You want to connect to a Veeam Backup for AWS appliance using its private IP. Solution If you want to connect to an appliance deployed in AWS Marketplace, use the instructions provided in Connecting to Existing Veeam Backup for AWS Appliances. At the Connection Type step of the wizard,...

How to Reset Password in Veeam Backup for Google Cloud

Challenge You need to reset the password of a Backup Administrator account used to access Veeam Backup for Google Cloud. Solution Before you begin, make sure the IP address of the machine that you are using to reset the password is on the list of allowed IP addresses added to the firewall rules...

"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,...

Release Information for Veeam ONE 10

Challenge Release information for Veeam ONE 10. Cause Make sure you are running Veeam ONE version 9.5 updates 3, 4 or 4a builds № 9.5.0.3801, 9.5.4.4566 and 9.5.4.4587 prior to installing this update. You can check this under Help | About in Veeam ONE console. After upgrading, your build will be...

Unable to Create Folder (name: ) Error

Challenge The following error occurs when creating a folder in the S3-Compatible Object Storage bucket: "Unable to create folder name: ". Cause Certain S3-compatible API do not support an unsigned payload used by Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 as the x-amz-content-sha256 authorization header...

Hyper-V Backup jobs failing with an error "The system cannot find the file specified" after upgrade to Veeam B&R 9.5 Update 4

Challenge After installing Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 4, Hyper-V backup without application-aware processing may fail with the error "The system cannot find the file specified". Version Specific Article This article is relevant only to Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5.4.2615. Cause This...

How to get a Support ID - SEE UPDATED KB LINK BELOW

Challenge When opening a case via the Customer Support Portal, you are prompted to enter a Support ID. Solution Case Creation Requirements To create a Veeam Technical Support case for a given Support ID, you must be designated as either License Administrator or Case Administrator. For more...

Computer connection status is "Rejected" in Veeam Service Provider Console

Challenge You may see the following status for the computer in Veeam Service Provider Console - "Discovery" - "Discovered Computers": Solution Under "Discovered Computers" press "Change settings…" and turn on "Accept new connections" If this KB article did not resolve your issue or you need furth...

"Length cannot be less than zero" error during the Update installation

Challenge The Update for Veeam ONE fails during the installation with the error message "Length cannot be less than zero". Cause User Principal Name or UPN user@domain is currently unsupported with Veeam ONE. User Logon Name or ULN domain\user is the only supported username format for the product...

DD replication causes panic error on the target Data Domain server

Challenge You have configured a Data Domain Storage Unit as a Veeam backup repository using MTree replication. Data Domain replication results in PANIC on the target Data Domain storage. Cause Veeam Backup & Replication leverages the Virtual Synthetic VS feature of the DD Boost library for buildi...

“File does not exist” error after rename failure on deduplication appliance

“File does not exist” error after rename failure on deduplication appliance...

Tape media not visible in the GUI

Challenge Tape media that is labelled with barcodes starting with "CLN" or "CLR" is not visible in Veeam Backup & Replication GUI Shell. Cause Tapes with labels starting with "CLN" or "CLR" are automatically detected as cleaning tapes and are hidden in the user interface. This is by design...

Data loss risk with Backup Copy to Data Domain via DDBoost

Challenge Backup Copy job retention processing overlapping with the DD Clean process garbage collection may result in data loss. Cause Backup Copy job retention processing overlapping with the DD Clean process garbage collection may result in data loss due to Data Domain erroneously processing fi...

Throttling Rules Not Being Applied

Challenge A configured Network Throttling rule does not appear to be taking effect. Solution Traffic can only be throttled between backup infrastructure components where the Veeam Data Movers are deployed. These components differ depending on a data protection scenario. For more information, revi...

vCloud jobs are not shown in SCOM views of Backup jobs

Challenge In Backup Job views under SCOM Monitoring, all backup jobs are discovered by Veeam Management Pack for Veeam Backup except for vCloud vCD backup jobs. Cause The behavior is caused by a known issue and fixed in Veeam Management Pack v7. Solution Upgrade to most recent version. More...

FastSCP ver. 3.0.3 is unable to connect to datastore in VMWare

The FastSCP software receives an error connecting to VMware version 5 and higher datastores...

Attempt to launch Veeam Backup and Replication fails

Challenge An attempt to launch Veeam Backup & Replication fails with the message that Veeam Backup and Replication service is not running: The service can actually be seen as running: The following entries can be seen in VeeamShell.log: Timestamp Info ------- Started new session of Veeam Shell...

Slow backup perfomance in HOTADD (virtual appliance) mode

Edge Case Issue The issue documented in this article is highly uncommon and is directly related to storage and network congestion. For more information, closely review the Broadcom KB Article 1002598. As this is an issue between the vSphere environment and the backend datastore storage, this...

Event ID 10378 in the Operations Manager Event Log on Collector

Challenge Operations Manager Event Log on the Collector server contains the following warning: ID 10378 Module was unable to convert WMI setting .\timestamp Event IDs 1103 and 4506 may also be observed. Cause The root cause is currently investigated by Microsoft. This article will be updated afte...

Best Practice For Setting Up nWorks Collection for Failover and Disaster Recovery

Purpose Additional information given about how collectors work within nWorks and guidelines on how to set up collectors for disaster situations. Solution The Best Practice for Setting Up nWorks Collection for Failover and Disaster Recovery To get started with monitoring through the nWorks...

Object reference not set to an instance of an object exception on Checking free space on source datastore

Job fails right away with error "Checking free space on source datastore. Object reference not set to an instance of an object."...

Using Rsync to Copy Backup Files Offsite

Challenge When using Rsync as a post job activity to copy backup files to an offsite location one of the problems that is encountered is that after the second backup is using reverse incremental, Rsync copies all the data from the vbk file one more time, and not just the changes from the last...

Import fails with "No such file"

Challenge When trying to import VBK, the import fails with the error "No such file." Cause This message can occur due to improper setup of the storage connection. Solution To correct this issue: 1. Confirm that this backup was created in the same version. 2. Copy the backup files to the Veeam...

ESX hardware status change however, the change is not reflected in OpsMgr.

The overall health status of the host can be updated in certain scenarios, but the hardware item health status is not correctly updated in OpsMgr. An important symptom is that the health state of the hardware item may be "Unknown" grey in VMware vSphere client...

Backup server is not upgraded to the latest version yet Enterprise Manager error

When adding backup server in Enterprise Manager the error appears: "Backup server "XXX" is not upgraded to the latest version yet"...

List of Security Fixes and Improvements in Veeam Plug-in for Microsoft Azure

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

List of Security Fixes and Improvements in Veeam Backup for Salesforce

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

List of Security Fixes and Improvements in Veeam Plug-in for AWS

Purpose This article describes all security-related fixes and improvements introduced in each release or update of Veeam Plug-in for AWS. This article aims to provide our customers' security and compliance teams with detailed information on security improvements between releases. Security Fixes a...

After Upgrade to Veeam Backup & Replication 12, Storage Rescan of IBM HyperSwap Volume Fails

Challenge After upgrading to Veeam Backup & Replication 12, Storage Rescan fails with: Failed to update information about IBM HyperSwap volumes. Please ensure that volumes on both sides of IBM HyperSwap relationships are included in the rescan scope in the storage properties. See KB4380 for...

Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows can't be auto-updated to the latest version on Windows 7, 2008 R2, 2012

Challenge Veeam Agent fails to run auto-update and download the latest version on the following operating systems: Microsoft Windows 7 SP1 Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Cause Veeam Agent utilizes BITS to download the latest versions from...

Release Information for Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 5c

This update has been superseded by Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 5c cumulative patch KB4187 Requirements Please confirm that you are running one of the following versions of Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 before upgrading to 5c: 3.0 build 3.0.0.422 4.0 build 4.0.0.1345 4a builds 4.0.0.1553,...

My Account Portal: "No licenses can be found for your account"

Challenge After logging in to the My Account portal, the "No licenses can be found for your account" message is shown on the "Production licenses" page. Solution This issue often happens for one of two reasons: 1. There are multiple companies linked to your Veeam Account, and you may need to swit...

Release notes for Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 4a

Challenge Release Notes for Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 4a. Cause Please confirm you are running Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 version 2.0, 3.0 or 4.0 prior to installing the new version 4a 4.0.0.1553. You can check the product version under Help About in the Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365...

How to decrease the OpsMgr Health Service load caused by datastore monitoring process

Purpose This article documents how to decrease the OpsMgr Health Service load caused by the datastore monitoring process. Cause Since the datastore monitoring job currently cannot be split among several Veeam VMware Collectors, the amount of processed data may overload the Health Service in large...

Path to NFS datastore has been changed after upgrade to Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 U4

Challenge After upgrading to Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 U4, Veeam vPower NFS datastore location might be changed. Cause The NFS datastore path having changed is a known issue in the Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 U4. Starting with 9.5 Update 4, the disk with the largest capacity is selected b...

Cloned Nimble volumes are not visible

Challenge By default, cloned Nimble Volumes are not shown in Veeam Backup and Replication UI and cannot be interacted with. However you can implement registry setting that will enable Nimble cloned volumes for interaction. Solution 1. Create the following registry value on the Veeam Backup and...

Veeam Availability Console Cumulative Patch 1376

Challenge Veeam Availability Console Cumulative Patch 1376 Cause Please confirm you are running version 2.0.1.1319 or later prior to installing this cumulative hotfix 1376. You can check this under Windows Programs and features. After upgrading, your build will be version 2.0.1.1376. As a result ...

Veeam Availability Console Migration FAQ

This is a FAQ page for Veeam Availability Console migration...

How to enable storage-specific API logging

Need to collect storage-specific API logging by Veeam Customer Support request...

Enterprise Plus license is required error on dashboards and reports

Challenge Verify health of Data Warehouse Cause Veeam MP license is synchronized to the Data Warehouse then the reports load this information. If license is invalid in the Data Warehouse due to Synchronization server having issue this error will occur Solution 1. Open SCOM Operations Manager...

VeeamONE Update Failing – The specified path, file name, or both are too long.

Challenge VeeamONE V9.5 Update 1 install fails with the following error: "The specified path, file name, or both are too long. The fully qualified file name must be less than 260 Characters, and the directory name must be less than 248 characters." Cause Conflict with BusinessView component...

Moving Cloud replicas to another datastore

Purpose A Service Provider may need to migrate replicated cloud VMs to a different datastore using Storage vMotion. This article describes which changes should be made on the Provider's Veeam Server to ensure non-disruptive migration. Solution Having performed svMotion, a SP should do the...

Monthly Usage Report (X Days Left)

Challenge BEM displays "Please submit a monthly usage report x days left" after submitting usage report Cause There are a few scenarios that can produce this message, detailed below in solutions: Solution 1. Partner has submitted a spreadsheet containing monthly usage report information to 2...

Leap Second Compatibility

Challenge A leap second is a one-second adjustment that is occasionally applied to Coordinated Universal Time UTC to keep its time of day close to mean solar time. Some software experiences problems when leap seconds are inserted for example, if the leap second is inserted at an unexpected time...

Jobs fail with “Error: Invalid product version” after upgrade to Veeam Backup & Replication v9

Challenge After upgrading to Veeam Backup & Replication v9, all jobs fail with "Error: Invalid product version." Cause During the upgrade process the new v9 license file was not installed. Solution Install the new v9 license file that can be acquired from the support portal. The following link wi...