Surebackup VDDK error: 16064. Host is not licensed for this feature

Challenge When SureBackup job is running against Domain Controller, Veeam B&R server is unable to access disk of the target machine. The following error can be seen in the log: VDDK error: 16064.Host is not licensed for this feature 25.05.2011 07:53:34 Info AP Client error: Failed to open VDDK di...

Enterprise Manager shows duplicate jobs

Challenge After moving the Veeam server to another server the jobs tab of the Backup Enterprise Manger still shows the jobs from the previous Backup server. Cause Information about the old backup server still remains in VeeamBackupReporting database. Solution To correct this: 1. Go to the...

VSSControl: -2147024784 / 0x80070070: There is not enough space on disk

Challenge A job with Guest Processing enabled fails with either: VSSControl: -2147024784 Backup job failed. Cannot create a shadow copy of the volumes containing writer's data. Cannot prepare the Exchange server data to a subsequent restore operation. Cannot store backup/restore manifest. Serial...

Win32 error: The network path was not found. Code 53

Challenge A server processed by a job fails with the following error: Error: Failed to connect to guest agent. Errors: 'Cannot connect to the host's administrative share. Host: . Account: .... Win32 error:The network path was not found. Code: 53 Cannot connect to the host's administrative share...

How to Start a SureBackup Job in Troubleshooting Mode

Purpose This article documents how to start an individual VM that has failed SureBackup validation in "Troubleshooting mode." Solution Troubleshooting Mode causes the selected VM in the SureBackup job to be powered on and remains on, despite possible test failures. This can be very useful for...

VDDK Error 3 Troubleshooting

Challenge A Backup or Replication job fails with an error containing 'VDDK error: 3 ' This most often occurs when forcing aVMware Backup Proxy to use 'Virtual Appliance' transport mode and disabling the 'Failover to network mode' option. Cause The most common scenario is that the disks of the VM...

Installing a new license does not take effect/hold.

When installing a new license for Backup & Replication, the license key does not apply or hold...

Unable to access file [unspecified filename] since it is locked

Challenge VMware holds a lock on the snapshot file while it is being consolidated. If there is an issue during this process, it is possible for further snapshots to be unable to consolidate, causing removal failures. You receive warnings that the snapshot removal process failed because '' is...

There are no more endpoints available from the endpoint mapper server

Challenge A Backup job with Application-Aware Processing enabled fails with the error: There are no more endpoints available from the endpoint mapper server Cause The error is being relayed by Veeam Backup & Replication from the Guest OS. RPC is not functioning correctly. Solution Before running ...

Guest OS Event Logs Indicate a Time Shift Has Occurred During Backup

Challenge There is a time shift on the guest VM during the Veeam job when the snapshot is taken. You are getting messages such as the following in the system event log: Event ID: 1 The system time has changed to from . Cause VMware Tools may be configured to synchronize the virtual machine's time...

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...

NFC connectivity troubleshooting steps

Challenge A job fails with an error related to NFC Network File Copy connectivity. For example: Error: NFC storage connection is unavailable. Failed to create NFC download stream. Failed to create NFC upload stream. Cause The cause of most NFC errors fall into 4 primary categories: DNS The proxy ...

Method not found

Challenge Cause There is most likely a conflict between .dll versions. Go to the folder where Veeam Backup & Replication is installed and make sure all .dll files have the same version: The conflict can happen if the hotfix was previously installed over the incorrect version, and new methods from...

Configuration system failed to initialize

Product Improvements Starting with Veeam Backup & Replication 12, when launching the Console, the software will check the validity of the user.config file, and if found to be corrupt display a prompt notifying the user that "your user settings file is corrupted. " That prompt will allow the user ...

Windows File Level Restore causes Windows crash (the “blue screen” error) on the Veeam Backup server.

Challenge During File Level Restore, the Windows "blue screen" error occurs on the Veeam Backup Server. You cannot restore any guest OS files and Veeam Backup server crashes. Cause When restoring files with Windows File Level Restore from a backup or a replica, the Veeam Backup server crashes wit...

How to manually test hotadd functionality

Purpose This article documents the procedure for manually performing hotadd to test whether a Veeam Backup Proxy can attach a VM's base disks. Solution Requirements and Limitations Before testing, review Virtual Appliance HOTADD Requirements and Limitations Review KB1054:Appliance Mode Hotadd...

SureBackup: A connection attempt failed

Challenge Cause Veeam Backup & Replication is not able to connect to the Virtual Lab and grab network settings from the web server. Solution If you assign a proxy appliance an IP address from the same network where the Veeam B&R server is located, Veeam B&R will automatically add a new route to t...

Veeam Product Licensing

Purpose This article provides information regarding Veeam product licensing acquisition, access, and usage. Solution General Information about Licensing Veeam Product Licensing Information Veeam Licensing Frequently Asked Questions Veeam Licensing Policy Veeam End User License Agreement EULA...

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...

U-AIR issue: Virtual Lab Manager is disconnected

Challenge The following error message occurs when running the U-AIR wizard: Virtual Lab Manager is disconnected The following error messages can be found in the Veeam.AIR. log file: timestamp Error Virtual Lab Manager is disconnected. Veeam.Backup.Common.CommonException timestamp Error Server sta...

Transaction was deadlocked

When trying to delete backups in Veeam console, occur error "Transaction Process ID xx was deadlocked on lock."...

How to enable users to restore their own items from latest backup

Solution You need to create an ever-running SureBackup job with the application in question, and provide a convenient DNS name for it. 1. Create a new application group with VMs running the required application and its dependencies. 2. Create a new SureBackup job and select "Keep application grou...

Backup job fails with error: Insufficient system resources exist to complete the requested service.

Challenge The following entry can be seen in the log file: Client error: Insufficient system resources exist to complete the requested service Cause The error is relayed by Veeam Backup & Replication from the underlying Windows OS. Solution As the underlying Windows OS is reporting this error,...

Call execution timeout (100000 ms) (Veeam.Backup.SSH.PerlSoapException)

Article Applicability This article discusses an issue that only occurs when non-persistent Veeam Data Movers are used. The non-persistent data movers are only used when the account provided to Veeam Backup & Replication to connect to a Linux server does not have root or root-equivalent permission...

Compatibility with VMware vSphere Fault Tolerance

Solution Starting with vSphere 6, Virtual Machines with Fault Tolerance enabled can be snapshotted via APIs, allowing Veeam Backup & Replication to back up and replicate Fault Tolerant VMs - just like any other VMs. Starting with Veeam Backup & Replication 8 Update 2 8.0.0.2030, VMs with Fault...

RPC function call failed. The RPC server is unavailable. w/ Application-Aware Processing

Challenge A Backup or Replication job utilizing Application-Aware Processing fails with the error: RPC error:The RPC server is unavailable. Code: 1722 Cause Possible causes include, organized from most common to rarest: The ports that Veeam Backup & Replication is attempting to use are blocked by...

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 ...

Internet Access From Virtual Lab

Purpose This article documents how to enable machines operating within the Virtual Lab isolated network to access the internet. Solution The function documented in this KB enables the virtual lab proxy appliance to act as an internet proxy. This proxy function only passes web browser traffic. Thi...

One or more arguments are not correct

Challenge Installation of AIR Wizard any of them fails with the error "One or more arguments are not correct." Cause There is a conflict with the Windows firewall. Solution Disable Windows Firewall and make sure its Windows service is stopped even if it is disabled, make sure it was stopped befor...

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...

How to Bypasss Load Balancing in Veeam Management Pack for Microsoft System Center

Challenge Load Balancing is automatically enabled between multiple collectors within one failover group. The issue is when you do not want collectors to failover or load balance between the two. Cause Load Balancing is a feature within Veeam Management Pack for Microsoft System Center and it is s...

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...

Physical and virtual machines with identical names

Challenge When a physical and a virtual object with identical names are present in SCOM and in the SCOM database they tend to get mixed up by the application. Cause Unfortunately, nworks currently does not support machines having the same name within one environment. nworks uses VM Name as a uniq...

Alerts are not closed automatically in SCOM

This article addresses troubleshooting for the following problem: "Alerts are not closed automatically in SCOM."...

How to download a trial version of nworks products

When you try to download the management pack/SPI trial version from the Veeam Software website, the link does not work...

Failed to configure DC (Host is not licensed for this feature)

Challenge Cause The DC boots up only in the DSRM and all services are not operational. Solution To address this: Make sure ESX is licensed with the vStorage APIs feature. Make sure that the account used to backup the Virtual Machines has full administrative rights on Vcenter and is member of loca...

How to Adjust Collector Heartbeat Timeout

Purpose This article provides information regarding the configuration of the Collector Heartbeat setting, which determines how long the collector can go between heartbeats before being considered unreachable. Solution Configuration of the CollectorHeartbeatTimeout value is documented in the Veeam...

Duplicate e-mail notifications sent when a backup or replication job is completed.

When your backup or replication job is completed, you receive duplicate e-mail notifications...

SureBackup for a Virtual Machine with excluded disks

Challenge How to run a VM directly from a backup file if some of its disks are excluded from backup. Solution To run a VM directly from a backup file, make sure you select 'Remove excluded disks from VM configuration' option when excluding your disks from the backup: More Information If the 'Remo...

How to reset vSphere Virtual Machine CBT

Purpose This document provides details for resetting the CBT Changed Block Tracking of a vSphere VM. The Veeam Backup & Replication may display the following message: CBT data is invalid, failing over to legacy incremental backup. No action is required, next job run should start using CBT again. ...

The dependency service or group failed to start

Challenge Cause This error is usually caused by one or more Windows VSS services being disabled. To fix it, you will need to go to Start Run, and enter "services.msc" without quotes. Here, you will see a list of services, their description, and whether or not they are running. Make sure RPC servi...

Unable to access the virtual machine configuration: Invalid datastore path

Challenge SureBackup/Instant Recovery session fails with the error: Unable to access the virtual machine configuration: Invalid datastore path Log Files list: Error Failed to register VM name 'XYZaf5107a9120c43e687c33c3d6f4c073c', is template 'False' System.Exception Error Unable to access the...

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...

Failed to start client agent on the host

Backup job fails with the error: 'Failed to start client agent on the host '...', Timeout to start agent'...

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"...

"Unknown vbk format" error when importing backup file to Veeam Backup & Replication

Challenge Cause The .vbk file you are trying to import was created with a different version of Veeam Backup & Replication. Solution Check whether versions of the Veeam Backup & Replication software match on the server where the .vbk file was made and on the server to which you are importing the...

Failed to open VDDK disk error in Virtual Appliance mode, IDE virtual disks not supported

Processing the VM with IDE virtual disks in VA/hotadd mode fails...

Veeam vPower NFS Service fails to start

Challenge This article documents troubleshooting steps to be taken if the Veeam vPower NFS Service fails to start. Solution Check Port Usage Check if another process is locking one of ports used by the Veeam vPower NFS Service: 1. Open an Administrative PowerShell Prompt 2. Run the following...

VSS issue: Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID failed (80070005)

Veeam service account does not have enough privileges to call a COM server application with specified CLSID. As a result, it is not possible to inject the VSS short-life process into the guest OS...