First, the setup. We had had a VBR 11 installation on our VMWare installation, that included mostly the backup of our VMs plus a single "managed by agent" job of a Windows Server system (also VM, but wanted to avoid selecting it as a "managed by backup server" since that would involve storing our AD admin credentials in the VBR server). Upgraded to 12 and just recently after some fuss created with an expired certificate of our vCenter which required tinkering with the VBR server itself we found out that the agent is outdated. Specifically, in the VBR console we get an informational message stating that "Backup agent xxx" requires upgrade. For the record, the installed version on the Windows server box seems to be 5.0.3.4708.
I really can't recall how I installed the agent on the system, I believe it involved the generation of an XML file at some point, but not sure. Anyways, now I have a number of question here:
1) How can I upgrade the agent running on our WS system? From the documentation I've seen plenty of references when the system is part of a protection group but this is not the case here. Do note that the about box of VAW on the WS box does not offer any update option (and if it did, it would not work in our specfic environment)
2) Related to the agent, I can see some inconsistencies: if I check the backup job (type: windows agent policy) from the VBR side it is listed as having encryption. However when checking from the VAW side, no compression is listed when editing the job and checking the summary page. Additionaly, when going to backup repository -> advanced -> storage tab there's a note that "local encryption is not supported for Veeam backup repository".
I'm also attaching the VAW job summary, in case it helps
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General ------------------------------------------
Backup job name: backup job
Backup job description:
Created by -
Source -------------------------------------------
Backup mode: volume level backup
Included items:
(A single disk which is mapped to an iSCSI volume)
Destination --------------------------------------
Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows repository
Backup server: xxx
Backup repository: xxxxx-repo
Keep restore points for the last 14 days
Compression level: Optimal (recommended)
Storage optimization: Local target
Storage encryption: disabled
Perform backup files health check monthly on the last Friday of January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
GFS: enabled
Backup cache -------------------------------------
Backup cache is disabled
Guest processing ---------------------------------
Application-aware processing: [enabled]
Process transaction logs with this job
Microsoft SQL transaction logs: [truncate logs]
Oracle transaction logs:
Do not delete archived logs
Microsoft SharePoint application:
Guest file system indexing: [disabled]
Script processing: [disabled]
Schedule -----------------------------------------
Schedule: server
On [Τρι, Τετ, Πεμ, Παρ, Σαβ] at [3:00 πμ]
Retry failed job 3 times
Wait before each retry attempt for: 10 minutes
Create synthetic backups full on Friday
Command line to start the job:
"C:\Program Files\Veeam\Endpoint Backup\Veeam.EndPoint.Manager.exe" xxxx