Hi All,

What’s the impact when taking the backup of Exchange Server (no DAG) with Veeam (VSS aware or Application-Aware Processing enabled) when the server is currently running on Circular logging and the mailbox is being migrated from one server to another ?
More info about the application aware: https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/backup_job_vss_application_vm.html?ver=95 

The reason I ask this question is that the migration of the 2TB+ mailbox database is quite slow about 5 GB per hours, which is about 17 days with no backup running on the email server.

Any help and comments would be greatly appreciated.

Hi,

I've been using Veeam for years as a back/replication package.  I started getting an error a day or so ago that is rather odd.  

The first odd thing about it is the suffix:  vmdk.vmdk for both virtual disks.   Never seen this before.  Not sure if it was named that originally as I wouldn't normally check the suffix with a VM that has been running for years (and still is).

And as a production server, I haven't made any changes to the configuration at all.  The specific message is:

Processing configuration Error: Cannot replicate disk {LSI-1] ABS64/ABS64_1.vmdk.vmdk because its capacity was reduced.

The capacity of this drive is 60 gig and has been for years.  Any suggestions on how to diagnose this?

Running vSphere 6 essentials with current updates applied, and Veeam B&R 9.0.0.1715.

Thanks!

--Ben

Hi EE,

I've been getting this error on a Veeam backup for over 2 months now.  There is not a lot of information online, so maybe you guys can help me. This is the error that I am getting:

"Failed to prepare guest for hot backup. Error: Cannot upload guest agent's files to the administrative share [\\10.80.60.17\ADMIN$]. Cannot copy file. Source file: [C:\Program Files (x86)\Veeam\Backup Transport\GuestInteraction\VSS\VeeamGuestHelpers\VeeamGuestIndexer.exe]. Target file: [\\10.80.60.17\ADMIN$\VeeamVssSupport\VeeamGuestIndexer.exe]. CopyFile() failed. Win32 error:The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. Code: 32
Error: Cannot upload guest agent's files to the administrative share [\\10.80.60.17\ADMIN$]. Cannot copy file. Source file: [C:\Program Files (x86)\Veeam\Backup Transport\GuestInteraction\VSS\VeeamGuestHelpers\VeeamGuestIndexer.exe]. Target file: [\\10.80.60.17\ADMIN$\VeeamVssSupport\VeeamGuestIndexer.exe]. CopyFile() failed. Win32 error:The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. Code: 32"

Any help would be appreciated.

Hi Experts,

I am looking for some advice on backing up our VM's and hosts.

We currently have 2 hosts attached to a DAG. We have VM Essentials plus licenses. We have migrated the VM's from  the 2 hosts to the DAG.

Questions

1) Being on the DAG does this effect how backups would be work or configured using a backup solution
2) I know Veeam backup is the top solution but also see it is more expensive than Nakivo my 2 choices, would they both backup the hosts and vm's?

Thanks

Hi People,

I'm using Veeam Backup Enterprise Plus that is capable of taking my VMware VM backup using Storage Array snapshot.
Today, I notice that my current production Exchange mailbox server is running out of disk space and to make thing worst, I cannot extend it anymore due to NTFS MBR limitation of 2 TB on the D:\

So, now, I am performing the mailbox database migration from one very large mailbox DB [PRODMBXCAS01-VM] to another mailbox DB on newly build Exchange server 2013 [PRODMBX01-VM].

Old existing Exchange Server 2013 SP1 Standard - CAS & MBX server:
Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Data Center Edition
PRODMBXCAS01-VM

C:\ 80 GB - OS
D:\ 1.95 TB - Mailbox DB [15 GB remaining free disk space]
E:\ 200 GB - Transaction Logs

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New Exchange Server 2013 SP1 Standard - MBX server only:
Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard Edition
PRODMBX01-VM

C:\ 80 GB - OS
E:\ 200 GB - Transaction Logs
D:\ 300 GB - New Mailbox DB1
F:\ 300 GB - New Mailbox DB2
G:\ 300 GB - New Mailbox DB3
H:\ 300 GB - New Mailbox DB4
I:\ 300 GB - New Mailbox DB5

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So my question is:

1. Which Exchange server is safe to backup with during the business hours with no downtime or interruptions to the users while I'm performing the mailbox migration ?
2. When backing up the Exchange VMs during the mailbox migration shall I truncate the transaction logs or leave it running ?

Any help and suggestion would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Hi EE,

First time trying to copy a Virtual Machine in Veeam. I got this error:

Processing PPCSERVER_replica Error: NFC server [192.168.x.x] is busy.
Delivery of a FILE_PUT message has failed.
Processed file: [[MSA_SANSTORE] PPCSERVER_replica_15_/PPCSERVER1.proplumb.local-flat.vmdk].
Size of the processed data: [3214295040].
Size of the file: [252330377216].
Unable to receive file.
Shared memory connection was closed.


Can you guys help me?

Hello,

this is an old version of Veeam, 6.5 Patch 3. Unfortunately there is no current maintenance contract.

Backups appear to work fine but if I try to do a test restore of a file I get the error "failed to install guest agent control".

I have reinstalled vmtools both on the Veeam backup server and the SBS server I am trying to restore to, not helped. Google doesn't bring up anything on this error.

Any ideas?

Thank you.

Alasdair Barclay

I'm looking into the cost of running our servers at Azure instead of locally. My current backup solution won't work in the cloud.

Azure Backup is looking incredible because of the price. Many friends recommend Unitrends or Veeam and I'm wondering why.

Is Azure Backup good enough to consider? Have you ever used it to fail back?

Thank you,

What are the best practices to protect a Veeam Cloud Backup Repository from Ransomware?
Ransomware infects not only the server, but also the local Veeam Backup repository AS WELL AS the offsite replicated backup repository.

The whole point of an offsite backup is that the data is recoverable in the event the local backups have been compromised.
Please advise.

Hi Everyone

Thought it would be easier to ask as im just wasting time searching around on the internet.

I want to use Veeam backup and replication.

I have a physical host running VMware ESXi (free version) with 4 VM servers on.

Veeam backup and replication says it will not work on ESXi free edition. But what edition/ license of ESXi do I need to buy??? ESXi free edition does everything I need, so I don't need to spend money on VMware products, licenses that I don't need... what is the minimum I can purchase to enable me to use Veeam Backup & Replication??? Is there simply a paid version of ESXi license I can buy and input the license key so I can use Veeam?

Hi People,

I've got about 8x SQL Servers VM that is used 24x7 and very big, with some of them is around 12.5 TB in single VM (multiple large VMDK):

16x vCPU
128 GB vRAM
C:\ - OS - 300 GB
D:\ - Database .MDF - 6.5 TB
E:\ - Backup .BAK & TRN -23 TB
L:\ Logs 3.1 TB

So my question is, can I just backup the C: drive and the E: drive only so that I can back it up more frequently like every 6 hours (using Veeam Backup - VM snapshot, no SQL transaction logs commit)?

Does backing up the OS and the E: drive containing the SQL maintenance backup file dump is enough to restore it functionally?

I cannot backup the whole VM due to the below concerns and stumble block:
1. Disk space for backup repository
2. Since the SQL server is very busy, sometimes when the  Veeam ABckup failed after 55 hrs of the backup job, snapshot removal process kills it for 3 hours bringing down the entire business with it.
3. Backing up the whole VM is not fast enough with VM snapshot mode.

So any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

I've searched this forum and not found an answer to this question. I've deleted about 300GB of old files from within a Windows 2012 virtual machine running on an ESXi 6 host. If I run a VeeamZip will it only backup the portion of the VM that has files in it or will it backup the space previously occupied by the deleted data?

I believe that vSphere/ESXi will not show the available space as increasing after I do this delete until a certain process is followed (I think running the Mark Russinovich sdelete utility inside the VM and then shutting down the VM and running vmkfstools to reclaim the space in ESXi is required to fully reclaim the space in ESXi). Since Veeam has data compression built in, I wonder if it will backup only the space occupied by files inside the VM? I really don't want to follow all the steps to recover the space in ESXi and have to take the VM down if I don't have to - I'm hoping Veeam doesn't care whether ESXi sees the freed up space or not and is smart enough to backup just the used space inside the VM.

In case you are wondering, I have never run a VeeamZip on this VM and I don't really want to run 2 VeeamZips (before and after the delete) just so I can compare the size of the VeeamZip to answer this question.

Thanks in advance for any help offered.

Hello Experts - I lost power at my remote site while Veeam replications were running for two VMs.  When the power came back up it looked fine but subsequent replications are failing with the error:

Detected an invalid snapshot configuration

Some research showed that I should delete the snapshots but when I try that I get this error in VMware:

A general system error occurred:  vim.fault.genericvmconfigfault

Attempting to consolidate produces this error:

An error occurred while consolidating disks: msg.snapshot.error-NOTFOUND.

I'm not sure what I need to do at this point and would appreciate any advice, thanks!