How to move Veeam installation to new vm

[dweide]

Hello,

I just moved my existing Veeam B&R 8 to a new VM (migrating from Win2008R2 to Win2012R2).

After config Export on the old VM, fresh install on the new VM and Import of the config on the new VM that seems to work OK, but I have several questions:

- I merged the Content of C:\VBRCatalog from the old to the new VM, was that really required?
- The Backup Enterprise Manager Shows no content on the new VM, it is simply empty.
How can I move the existing config and history to the new VM?
Import DB-backup, which tables??
Or add the new B&R-Server? But then what about the history...???
- Veeam ONE obviously cant connect to the B&R Server, simply add a new Server and remove the privious one? Any pitfalls here??

Thanks!

[Vitaliy S.]

Hello,

- I merged the Content of C:\VBRCatalog from the old to the new VM, was that really required?

No, it's not required, unless you need to keep this data. Please check out this KB for more details on how to migrate VBRCatalog directory > http://www.veeam.com/kb1453

- The Backup Enterprise Manager Shows no content on the new VM, it is simply empty.

Did you add your new server to the EM and still can't see any jobs?

How can I move the existing config and history to the new VM?
Import DB-backup, which tables??
Or add the new B&R-Server? But then what about the history...???

Yes, using configuration tool does not retain your data. If you want to move this as well, you will need to migrate the database and then point your new backup server to the existing SQL Server hosting your Veeam database.

This KB should give you some useful tips, please look through it > http://www.veeam.com/kb1889

Veeam ONE obviously cant connect to the B&R Server, simply add a new Server and remove the privious one? Any pitfalls here??

Yes. Since your previous backup server is not longer available, you will need to remove old Veeam backup server and add the new one. The only pitfall is that you will lose all your historical data, as it gets deleted with the server records from the database. Also make sure you are running Veeam ONE v8 update 1 before removing the backup server.

Thank you!

[dasfliege]

Catching up on this one, even though it's pretty old.
I have to migrate our B&R to a new server. We can't afford to loose session history or tape inventory. We have like 200+ saved credentials, so i am not really willing to re-enter all those.
I was able to backup the whole DB and import it on the new server, as far as i understood, i would now have to re-enter all credentials. Config import over a DB restore does not work because it would overwrite the DB i just restored?

Our DB backup is 60GB while configuration backup is only 2GB. There seems to be a lot of stuff missing.

What are the steps today to migrate B&R to a new server (with a new name) including all configurations, credentials, history, CBT information and catalog?

[Origin 2000]

@dasfliege

If your config backup is encrypted Veeam stores all credentials within this backup which means that a restore with credentials is a easy one. I migrate a couple of customers from a old to a new server as well as migrate from MSSQL to PGSQL which also is based of the config backup.

When speaking about "CBT" i think you refer to vSphere ChangeBlockTracking? I cant see the reason why this matter when restore a Veeam config.

Regards,
Joerg

[dasfliege]

@Origin 2000
Yeah credentials are an easy one if you use the config backup. However, last time i migrated a server, i've loss the complete history as well as the tape inventory.
We're using Hyper-V, so it's RCT not CBT. But i just listed it because i don't know if the database may store any information about CBT/RCT which is not included in the configuration backup.

I basically got what i want by:
- Backup / Import complete MSSQL database
- Import the latest configuration backup on top of that
- Copy Veeam Catalog folder

Don't know if any of this steps was useless, but it's working fine now.