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Madi.Cristil
Madi.CristilCommunity Manager
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Blog of the Month Winner May 2025Blog of the Month

Happy Tuesday everyone! It seems like we have a clear winner this month, congratulations ​@Dynamic ! 👏 

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Madi.Cristil
Madi.Cristil
Madi.CristilCommunity Manager
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Blog of the Month May 2025Blog of the Month

Dear Community,  Another month, another wave of awesome content from our Veeam Community — and May did not disappoint! We’ve shortlisted six exceptional blog posts, and now it’s up to you to pick your favorite. Be sure to cast your vote before the deadline hits on June 3rd (NYT)! Every vote is a high-five to the incredible contributors who keep our community buzzing with knowledge and passion. 💚Wishing the best of luck to all the talented bloggers! 😊​@kristofpoppe , ​@coolsport00 , ​@JSeeger , ​@Michael Melter , ​@Dynamic , ​@Iams3le Best, Madi 

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Madi.Cristil
Madi.CristilCommunity Manager
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Blog of the Month April 2025 WinnerBlog of the Month

 Congratulations ​@makacmar , you are the winner of Blog of the Month April edition! 🤝   

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Madi.Cristil
Madi.CristilCommunity Manager
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Blog of the Month April 2025Blog of the Month

April brought another wave of amazing content from our Veeam Community, and we’re here for it! We’ve selected six standout articles — now it’s your turn to have a say. Cast your vote and help us choose the top blog of the month before the clock runs out on May 6th (NYT)! ⏳🗳️Your vote means more than you think — it’s a big shoutout to our community members who keep the Hub thriving. 💚Best of luck to all the talented contributors! 😊​@leaha , ​ ​@saintdle , ​@makacmar , ​@mkevenaar , ​@marycordova , ​@matheusgiovanini Best, Madi 

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Madi.Cristil
Madi.CristilCommunity Manager
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Blog of the Month March 2025 WinnerBlog of the Month

Congratulations ​@Dynamic ! You are the winner of 2025 edition Blog of the Month with your article Documentation by AsBuiltReport !👏👏Best, Madi

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Kseniya
Kseniya✨
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How to be notified about new content at Community Hub?

Hey Community, I received a few messages from community members asking how to get notifications when there is a new content published (in this case we talked about “Blogs and Podcasts” category). I thought I would do a quick post about it. First, there is a possibility to subscribe to every category at Community Hub Let’s say, you would like to subscribe to “Blogs and Podcasts” category. To do so, you have to push ‘SUBSCRIBE’ button at the right side as shown at the screenshot below: Once it’s done - you will start receiving notifications about new topics created!Again, you can get subscribed to any category: whether it’s Discussion boards or News. You can also manage notification settings at your profile.If you experience any issues with notifications - please let me know! 

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fjlComes here often
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Cannot mount snapshot image [/dev/veeamimage0]

我尝试卸载相应的主机，然后重新添加它;但还是无法解决 

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DFS-R: Communication Error During Replication

 We need to analyze why the error message is appearing during the backup window. The alerts are being triggered due to the replication process between the T and O servers. Specifically, these alerts occur during the backup window of the T server, which runs from 9:00 PM to 10:00 PM PST. During this period, replication from T to O is paused, resulting in theError 9036: "Paused for backup or restore."However, the alerts are only seen on alternate days, not consistently every day, which requires further investigation. T Server – File1 O Server – File2 Primary Concern:The question raised is why the production server experiences impact—such as replication delays or user access issues—during the backup window. While domain controller replication is standard across all servers, it appears only the file server is affected during its backup schedule.Currently, the file server is backed up using an Application-Aware Processing policy.Veeam’s Application-Aware Processing ensures backup consiste

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TK515Comes here often
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Backing up MySQL on Windows Server

We are getting an application that runs on MySQL and I need to know if & how Veeam can backup MySQL. So far I’ve found documentation on how to do this in Linux but not Windows. Im running VBR 12.3

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MavMikeVBR
MavMikeVBRInfluencer
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Veeam software level dedup

I’m trying to investigate the levels of Veeam dedup/compression thats typically seen when using a non deduplication appliance. Is it really between 2:1 and 3:1? Again I’m thinking about typical VM workloads.Also if using XFS and fast clone it works in a similar fashion to dedup.Be interested if anyone has any data on data reduction thats “real world”thanks

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spider32Influencer
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How can I add new transactions to a DB without doing a full DB restore?

How can I add new transactions to a DB without doing a full DB restore? Our DBA are trying to restore a DB to a new server. The DB is huge and the restore process takes several hours. Within those hours, there are new transactions coming in and being backed up using transaction logging. How can we add or restore those new transactions on top of the previously restored DB without doing another full restore using Veeam SQL Explorer? I tried several options but I always end up with the message below. Thanks again for your suggestions.

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Nik14New Here
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Veeam Nutanix AHV mail configuration

Hi All, I am trying to configure backup alerts for the Nutanix backups same as VMware in the Nutanix proxies using Azure by creating the App registration process, we have configured everting as per Veeam article but now while sending test email we are getting some SSL error also it is showing not authorized with Microsoft even though it is showing authorized during configuration. In Azure app registration for the same we have selected platform as single page application only, is that correct or we need to select platform as web? please help to resolve this issue as I am not getting much support from Veeam support. Need your help and advice for the same as for Mail configuration we are using Microsoft with modern authentication using port 587. 

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MariaMillerNot a newbie anymore
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Stuck at "Installing veeam agent for Microsoft Windows"

I just setup a new Windows 2025 Standard server and tried to install VeeamAgentWindows_6.3.1.1074. Unfortunately after accepting EULA the installation starts, shows “migrating previous configuration” (which is a little bit strange, since this is a new Windows machine) and is then stuck at "Installing Veeam agent for Microsoft Windows".  C:\ProgramData\Veeam\Endpoint\DatabaseMigrationLog shows: [27.04.2025 22:25:03] <01> Info     [Migration] SQL CONFIGURATION PARAMETERS:[27.04.2025 22:25:03] <01> Info     [Migration] > Server=(local)[27.04.2025 22:25:03] <01> Info     [Migration] > ServerInstanceName=VeeamEndPoint[27.04.2025 22:25:03] <01> Info     [Migration] > ServerInstancePipeName=[27.04.2025 22:25:03] <01> Info     [Migration] > ServerInstancePort=-1[27.04.2025 22:25:03] <01> Info     [Migration] > DatabaseName=VeeamBackup[27.04.2025 22:25:03] <01> Info     [Migration] > User=current[27.04.2025 22:25:03] <01> Info  

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FlinktronNot a newbie anymore
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Migrate Hyper-V VMs to New Host

I need to migrate a bunch of Hyper-V VMs to a new Windows server for the first time. While researching different options I have seen some info online that Veeam can do this, but I can’t find clear instructions for VBR. Does anyone have any info or links on a guide? Or does this require additional Veeam software? I see various methods are available, but I’m getting into VBR and VBO and want to see what other tasks I can do with Veeam. Plus it seems like it may be an easy task with Veeam since we are already backing these up with VBR.

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goose_wsNew Here
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Failed to create VSS snapshot

I’m unable to run any backups on Veeam Agent for Windows (6.3.1.1074, free edition). While my setup was working previously, I now get the error “Failed to create VSS snapshot” when attempting to run a backup.My destination is an SMB share on a local Debian host. Other devices on my network (In identical configurations, “Entire Computer” and encrypted backups) are able to back up to that share successfully, it’s just this one machine that’s failing.I’ve tried the usual suspects: Restarting the machine, removing/re-adding the backup job. I also tried the steps outlined in this post:Opened an Command Prompt (Run as Administrator)Ran the following commands:net stop vss net start vssYou can also restart these services in services.msc:Volume Shadow Copy Microsoft Software Shadow Copy Provider Without success. The log from my backup attempt is:6/4/2025 09:14:13 :: Initializing 6/4/2025 09:14:20 :: Preparing for backup 6/4/2025 09:14:26 :: Backup file will be encrypted 6/4/2025 09:15:07 :: Fai

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waqasali
waqasaliInfluencer
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Veeam GCP Components.

Dear Community, Anyone face this issue if yes kindly guide how to fix this. Failed to upgrade host components. Error: 'Exception of type 'Veeam.Backup.Common.CAppException' was thrown.'

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Daniel PacuciComes here often
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What makes Veeam Synthetic fulls and merges randomly "get stuck" or slow down to a halt?

Hi, In a customer’s VBR 12.3.1.1139 server (free license) we are having some trouble achieving reliable backup times. It’s a big deduplicated file server (11TB of disks total) running on a Hyper-V VM. The software is installed on the host (WS 2022) and it backs up both host and vms. The backup repository is a QNAP NAS with 30TB of space connected via NFS with 10GB/s network. We tried having a job with periodic synthetic fulls and sometimes it took “only” 10 hours, but more often than not it would take more than 2 days.When this happens it seems to get “stuck” at a certain percentage so we cancel the job to leave room for it to continue making its daily backups.Same when merging backups in a forever incremental situation, sometimes it merges data in 3 hours, sometimes it takes 30, for the (presumably) same reason. The console says bottleneck is Target, but the NAS is pretty much new and it’s DEDICATED to backups only, there is nothing else there, the CPU does not work hard and the disk

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jeffsheadComes here often
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VBR job fails after new VM with same name

When updating a vcenter server appliance, part of the process is to replace the old vcenter VM with a new VM that has the same name.The problem I encounter is that the Veeam backup job fails because it seems like it’s trying to continue to backup the old VM which was deleted.…Processing vcenter Error: Cannot find Linux guest credentialsUnable to connect to guest OS for guest processing. Cannot find Linux guest credentialsError: Cannot find Linux guest credentials …Keep in mind that this VM was previously excluded from guest processing and indexing. I even removed the vcenter exclusions and re-added them to the job but when you run the guest credentials test, vcenter is listed twice and fails the tests even though its excluded. That VM shouldn’t even be tested since guest processing and indexing are disabled for Windows and Linux.Below are the errors from the guest credentials test:…6/5/2025 5:03:47 AM Failed Photon OS guest OS requires Linux credentials or a transport service installed

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MavMikeVBR
MavMikeVBRInfluencer
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Veeam hardened repo setup existing redhat server

I have veeam latest version v12.3 and an existing redhat 9.3 server which I want to convert to a hardened repo. I know there are steps to setup a new server but this is an existing OS with the storage mounted already. I need to add all the STIG hardening etc so can someone share these steps before I add it as a hardened repo.thanks.

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Ed4232New Here
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How is Veeam Immutability related to Oracle RMAN Retention, or are they independent of each other?

Hi,A newbie here with using Veeam for Oracle RMAN backups.I am trying to understand/visualize whether the RMAN retention and Veeam Immutability are independent of each other or are they related in some way.We run our backups on the Oracle DB server using shell scripts and cron and using a RMAN catalog.We have set  CONFIGURE RETENTION POLICY TO RECOVERY WINDOW OF 35 days.We do RMAN delete obsolete as well.The Veeam Immutability is 7 days.Does Veeam delete the backup files if they are 7 days old or does it delete the files if RMAN fails to delete them after 35 days? Or does Veeam do nothing unless we uses the force-delete?Kinda hoping someone has a presentation of some sort to show how this works. Have read thru the documentation and can’t find any that explains this. Or maybe it is explained more clearly/visually in any Veeam documentation and I just can’t find it.Any reply will be much appreciated. Thanks in advice. 

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euclids_bellybuttonComes here often
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installing Veeam agent on Microsoft CoPilot-managed machines

Hello.  Looking for feedback on installing the Veeam Windows agent on a desktop machine that’s managed by Microsoft CoPilot We have a service account with a known good password.  VBR requires that the credential be entered as “DOMAIN\username” .  But since the target machine is managed with CoPilot, it seems to need logins to use “username@DOMAIN” When we try to use the “DOMAIN\username” credentials to push the agent, we are getting a “invalid username or password” error from the VBR console, even though we’ve tested the account and we know the password is good Is there any way around this account format issue? we did try entering the credentials in VBR as “user@DOMAIN” but that didn’t work either.

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coolsport00
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anonNot a newbie anymore
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Follow up - downloaded the correct Veeam, but backup has failed. Advice?

Result of my attempted backupHello again, As you can see from the image above, there was an issue with my backup and none of it saved, the rest of the error info that I could copy is: 22/05/2025 10:45:03 :: Error: Cannot process pending I/O request (offset: 598344892416, size: 65536): async reader terminated Corrupted block processing thread failed unexpectedly Failed to upload disk. Skipped arguments: [EmulatedDiskSpec>]; Agent failed to process method {DataTransfer.SyncDisk}. Exception from server: Cannot process pending I/O request (offset: 598344892416, size: 65536): async reader terminated Unable to retrieve next block transmission command. Number of already processed blocks: [453602]. Failed to download disk 'FA96EA97' Any advice on how to proceed? Thanks!

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jriveraNew Here
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Backup SQL Server transaction logs on Always On cluster

We have created a backup job for SQL Server, to generate Full + Incremental backup and transaction log backups, and configured GFS for all the database backups (physical servers with GFS policies as well).In the environment there are three SQL Servers as part of an Always On Availability Group cluster.The backup of the DB run and then finishes OK.The Transaction Logs portion, says that all the 44 DB has been skipped.What could be the posible causes that makes the transaction logs not been backed up?On the documentation I've found that to became subject to log backups there are some conditions:    - Databases in the Always On Availability Groups for this node were successfully backed up for the last two processing intervals.The backups has been executed for the last 10 days, and no transaction logs has been backed up.Does the backups and transaction logs has to be run on the primary SQL Server?

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edmund mhagamaNew Here
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Replication Job Error: Error: VDDK error: 1 (Unknown error). Value: 0x0000000000000001 Failed to download disk 'VDDK:vddk://[Datastore-Replication]

Replication Job issues, unable to replicate virtual machine from the source to destination host.   Error: VDDK error: 1 (Unknown error). Value: 0x0000000000000001 Failed to download disk 'VDDK:vddk://[Datastore-Replication] GTBHELP01_replica02/GTBHELP01.vmdk'. Shared memory connection was closed. Failed to upload disk 'vddkConnSpec>' Agent failed to process method {DataTransfer.SyncDisk}.  

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Stabz
StabzOn the path to Greatness
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Stuck VMDK From the Veeam Proxies

Hey guys,I have the same random problem with my Proxies (Windows), VMDK are still attached to my proxies randomly once the job finish. The proxies are not backuped during the different backup jobs. The Vms that Veeam processed is found to require consolidation.On the vmware side I found a log " Unable to access file since it is locked An error occurred while consolidating disks: Failed to lock the file. Consolidation failed for disk node 'scsi0:0': Failed to lock the file." at the end of the backup job.But I don’t find the root cause. Have any of you ever encountered this problem?

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