Veeam for Proxmox

[Oso Rojo]

Is anyone actively using Veeam for Proxmox? I'm trying it out with now and it's failing. I'm getting a strange error that doesn't make grammatical sense.
"Failed to check if item exists:"

I'm running Veeam Ver 12.2.0.334.

Has anyone had any success in getting it working?

 

[Oso Rojo]

It's bad educate in some places to answer your own question. But it looks like there are not many Veeam user's around here and I should leave an answer for the next guy.

The situation I had was a Veeam system that was backing up the customer's VMware VM and I added a PVE. The PVE VMs would not successfully back up. I would get the error shown above. Veeam tech support was less than useless. Three different techs asked me for log files and then transferred to case to another tech. After three e days, I rolled my sleeves up and fixed it myself.

The problem was the worker proxies for PVE. I don't have a good answer but it was originally using DHCP so I switched it to a static IP and bingo, I'm getting backups. I switched it back to DHCP to verify that was the solution and it worked with DHCP. So I'm not sure what fixed it but it's working now.

I'm still waiting on Veeam to give me a suggested solution, maybe tomorrow.

 

[Magnus-mercer]

The support Veeam offers for Proxmox is quite average. In comparison, PBS is still more user-friendly. Recently, I discovered that Vinchin Backup & Recovery also provides good support for Proxmox.

 

[StreetPiet]

Is anyone actively using Veeam for Proxmox? I'm trying it out with now and it's failing. I'm getting a strange error that doesn't make grammatical sense.
"Failed to check if item exists:"

I'm running Veeam Ver 12.2.0.334.

Has anyone had any success in getting it working?

I tried to use Veeam Backup & Replication 12.2.0.334 on Windows Server 2019 with Proxmox VE 8.2.3 and also ran into Problems:

• The Worker Proxies only work with static IPs so far. i wasn't able to get DHCP working.
• With static IP the Workers are found and updates work, however
• I'm stuck again with a Timeout when "Connecting to worker Core Service"

 

[andrew-transparent]

I experienced delays with the Veeam BR server connecting to the worker service while using DHCP. Would take 10 min or so just to connect to the worker server before it would kick off backups. Once data started to flow backup times were normal.

I read on some forum (forgot to bookmark; Veeam or Reddit) to register the workers DHCP address with DNS and to make sure the Veeeam BR server was also registered in DNS and was resolvable. After doing that, connections take less than a minute and everything is working as expected.

 

[StreetPiet]

I tried to use Veeam Backup & Replication 12.2.0.334 on Windows Server 2019 with Proxmox VE 8.2.3 and also ran into Problems:

• The Worker Proxies only work with static IPs so far. i wasn't able to get DHCP working.
• With static IP the Workers are found and updates work, however
• I'm stuck again with a Timeout when "Connecting to worker Core Service"

Update:
I opened a Case with the Veeam Support, sent some Logfiles for them to inspect and received a download-URL to a hotfix.
Inside was:

• PVEPlugin_12.1.0.1006.exe
• veeamworkerpve-1.0.0.1008-0.el8.x86_64.rpm

The Instructions were:

1) Close all Veeam Consoles
2) Uninstall "Proxmox Virtual Environment Plug-in for Veeam Backup & Replication"
3) Install the new version from PVEPlugin_12.1.0.1006.exe
4) Put "veeamworkerpve-1.0.0.1008-0.el8.x86_64.rpm" to "C:\Program Files\Veeam\Plugins\PVE\Service\Packages"

Now it works!

I'm not shure if i'm allowed to share the files here in this forum....

 

[Robert_]

Update:
I opened a Case with the Veeam Support, sent some Logfiles for them to inspect and received a download-URL to a hotfix.
Inside was:

• PVEPlugin_12.1.0.1006.exe
• veeamworkerpve-1.0.0.1008-0.el8.x86_64.rpm

The Instructions were:

1) Close all Veeam Consoles
2) Uninstall "Proxmox Virtual Environment Plug-in for Veeam Backup & Replication"
3) Install the new version from PVEPlugin_12.1.0.1006.exe
4) Put "veeamworkerpve-1.0.0.1008-0.el8.x86_64.rpm" to "C:\Program Files\Veeam\Plugins\PVE\Service\Packages"

Now it works!

I'm not shure if i'm allowed to share the files here in this forum....

hi, would you mind sharing the second file? the first one can be found under kb4686 but i cant find the second one anywhere. You could use https://filebin.net/ or something similar if you dont want to upload the file here.

thank you in advance