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louch
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HELP: error opening veeam backup 4 "Root elemnt is missing"

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Hello my Veeam backup 4.0 had been working fine for 30+ days and now when I went to open it today to restore a file I get the following error message pop up:

The type initialozer for 'Veeam.Backup.DBManager.MainDs' threw an exception.
Configuration system failed ot initalize
Root element is missing. (C:\documents and settings\administrator\local settings\application data\veeam_software\veeam.backup.shell.exe_Url_5n5msbmzpxzk2bosrjjphdqtavmpm2jv\4.0.0\user.config)
Root elemt is missing.


Can somone please help me with this issue... I need to restore a backup and I also need my backups to run tonight... ( I dont want to lose my backups)

what should I do?
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Re: HELP: error opening veeam backup 4 "Root elemnt is missing"

Post by louch »

just a bit more information:

running Windows 2003 Standard R2 x86
I rebooted the server but still no luck...
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Re: HELP: error opening veeam backup 4 "Root elemnt is missing"

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Just reinstall it. The installer will use existent db with all your config.
Further, you can install another veeam backup anywhere just for recovery purpose, without needing additional licence.
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Re: HELP: error opening veeam backup 4 "Root elemnt is missing"

Post by Vitaliy S. »

Hello Larry,

You can remove that user.config file, it won't affect your configuration, later this file will be re-generated when you launch the Backup and Replication console.

Thank you.
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