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mcz
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SQL restore and ports/persistent agent

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Dear PM's,

tried to do a SQL restore and realized that it doesn't work since we moved some vm's and services around different VLANs. The culprit soon was found: network communication on certain ports was not allowed. Well, how difficult could it be, right?

Turned out that you (almost) need tons of different ports to enable communication - SMB, 1433, 1434 udp, RPC, ... Eventually it (veeam explorer for restore sql) tried to communicate to the ports 1025 and 1026, but on the (sql)-server-side nothing was listening on those ports...

I've got two questions:
  • I can't find the ports 1025 and 1026 in the documentation, what is this all about?
  • why not letting the persistent guest agent handle all of this communication? I mean this thingy was introduced to reduce the amount of needed ports and now for restore we have to go back. I know it might not be a trivial task to let the agent do some proxy stuff, but this way it's a bit painful...
Thanks!
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Re: SQL restore and ports/persistent agent

Post by Mildur »

Hi Michael

Those ports are mentioned in the explorer guides:
https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... ml?ver=120
why not letting the persistent guest agent handle all of this communication? I mean this thingy was introduced to reduce the amount of needed ports and now for restore we have to go back. I know it might not be a trivial task to let the agent do some proxy stuff, but this way it's a bit painful...
I'll count that as a feature request. We have similar requests from larger service providers.

Best,
Fabian
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mcz
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Re: SQL restore and ports/persistent agent

Post by mcz »

Thanks Fabian, yes, please consider it as feature request.
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