Feature Request: Select Components to Install/Upgrade

[ddasal]

We have a regulated environment which is strict on new, unneeded software, from being installed. When we run upgrades, VBR will add all the new plugins/components either from new capabilities, or from existing past capabilities. If a customer is only using 2 or 3 of those select plugins/add-on's, it would be really nice to offer an option to only upgrade the components currently installed, or to add (user selected) specific options to the installation.

We have also noticed, that some plugins seem to be auto added (Mac Client as one example) even after it has been installed when opening/using the console. This does create a lot of hassle for environments which require change requests for any new or modified software installations.

[lreed]

This really needs to be addressed. I regularly find unused components/plugins that are eating up more than a gig of ram doing nothing. The problem is even if I uninstall the offending plug in it gets reinstalled the next time you run an upgrade of VBR.

There should be an option during install to customize what plugins you want and a .1 version update shouldnt reinstall everything again. Horribly time consuming and frustrating.

[jirkava]

I am attaching my request to resolve this request. The number of unused running services is greater than the number of used services.

[BennyDC]

Hi All

Do a plus 1 for me.
We us SQL for the Veeam Config DB but postgresql did get no anyway installed with 12.3 for IntraAD
We don't gone use that but now the current release came up with an audit as an vulnerability.
I know there is a kb for this and will addressed in the next patch release.
But a bit pointless to need to patch components you don't use.

[ITinSpace]

Updating in FEB2026 after the release of VBR v13:
The additional services and plug-ins that are installed are time-consuming to remove after every update to ensure that we don't have vulnerabilities related to services running that we don't or can't use. Sometimes we can't uninstall the service/plug-in without it causing issues with the application, so we then have to block it in the host firewall. I want a backup solution that doesn't install unauthorized/unwanted software. This request has been in for over a year and even with the new VBR v13, the installer has implemented even more bloatware than what was in v12. We should be able to not install things we know we don't use in our environment. Even with multiple tickets to the support portal, we get told to put in a feature request that goes nowhere. Why can't the Veeam Dev team write an installer to allow system administrators to choose what needs to be installed? We know our working environment better than the Veeam engineers, so there's no reason to have software installed that we don't need that will take away resources from the server, open ports that create additional vulnerabilities, especially when there are untrusted self-signed certificates running on those ports since Veeam wants us to VBR with a certificate that has certificate issuance capabilities in an enterprise environment, which is typically not authorized in large enterprise environments due to the way PKI is designed. I should not have to fight with an application to get it working securely in an enterprise environment only to have the next update undo everything I've done to mitigate those vulnerabilities. Veeam is supposed to be an enterprise-friendly solution, but they aren't being very enterprise-friendly.

[HannesK]

Hello,
and welcome to the forums.

Sorry for the silence from R&D side on this topic. We discussed this topic internally some time ago as it came up also in other Forum threads and it was internally rejected back then. Having that said, we will discuss again and see whether we could do such things after there were some architecture changes in V13.

Best regards
Hannes

[ITinSpace]

Thank you for your response Hannes. I, and many other system administrators, anxiously await Veeam's rectification of this issue.

[Gene-MN]

+1

[ITinSpace]

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[ITinSpace]

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