Manual Proxy Install

[borgiaj]

Does anyone know if there is a way to manually install the Veeam backup proxy services directly on the proxy server without using the wizard through the B&R console? We're having trouble adding a proxy server to the backup infrastructure because the environment is hardened in a way that we cannot disable UAC on the proxy. We're having trouble connecting to the ADMIN$ share on the proxy, and it looks like it's UAC.

Thanks in advance.

[Vitaliy S.]

Hi Joe,

Yes, you can manually install the required components. Here is a blog post about this: https://www.vladan.fr/what-is-veeam-proxy/

Thanks!

[phiaramos]

Hi, is it possible to manually install backup proxy on a VM or physical server without configuring on the Veeam server? Do you have any guides or procedure for this? Thanks.

[Mildur]

Yes, have a look here:

vmware-vsphere-f24/manual-proxy-install-t67154.html

[Andreas Neufert]

In theory you can install the needed packages manually. The packages needed can be found in a folder on the Veeam Server. Can you please share why you want to do this and how you want to install the packages? The Proxy processing need later Administrator access, so that you could anyway use the integrated software distribution.

Please share more details about the why and how to allow me to guide you better.

[Natalia Lupacheva]

Hi folks,

I've moved the discussion to the existing thread to keep similar questions together.
Phia, please take a look at the discussions above.

Thanks!

[johannesk]

In theory you can install the needed packages manually. The packages needed can be found in a folder on the Veeam Server. Can you please share why you want to do this and how you want to install the packages? The Proxy processing need later Administrator access, so that you could anyway use the integrated software distribution.

Please share more details about the why and how to allow me to guide you better.

Hi Andreas,

In case I want to have the binaries on the proxy to install by hand from there instead of from the VBR console, where can I find the binaries to copy to the proxy?

Regards,
Jóhannes

[Mildur]

Hi Johannes

You can find the binaries here:
C:\Program Files\Veeam\Backup and Replication\Backup\Packages

Or under this path on the installation ISO:
X:\Packages

[mpm@aramark]

Once the Installer and Backup Transport Services are installed are there any other configuration steps to be performed? What is required on the VBR server to scan in the new proxy server?

[Mildur]

Hi Martin

You need to run the "add proxy" wizard in the backup console.

Best,
Fabian

[sumeet]

Hi All,
We are trying to configure a proxy and verified ports 445, 135 and few other open.
But the proxy wizard fails with error Access is denied. Failed to connect to the share \\IP\ADMIN$

We tried accessing the share from cmd and same error - system error 5 has occurred. Access is denied.

We then copied both these files VeeamInstallerSvc.msi and VeeamTransport.msi and manually installed it on the proxy server, but even after this, the wizard keeps erroring out -- Access is denied. Failed to connect to the share \\IP\ADMIN$

Is anyother msi that needs to be installed?

-Sumeet.

[sumeet]

Also, if what log file is used for proxy wizard or installation. Maybe something in the log file can help us debug this? Sorry for multiple msgs.

[Mildur]

Hi Sumeet

Have you have tried with disabling Remote UAC? Assuming the windows machine is not part of a domain and you want to use a custom service account, Remote UAC restrictions must be disabled.

Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
DWORD: LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy
Value: 1

Best,
Fabian

[sumeet]

Hi Fabian,

The windows machine is part of a domain.
And we are using a local system account (not domain account).

I have shared details of what we are planning to accomplish in this R&D thread -- file-shares-and-object-storage-f57/stor ... 68033.html

That is the reason the proxy server is part of my clients domain, but the VBR server which is at our site is WORKGROUP.

Do you see any concerns with server being part of the domain?
Does disabling Remote UAC not work if the server is part of the domain? I ask this because you say above -- Assuming the windows machine is not part of domain

-Sumeet.

[sumeet]

Hi Fabian,

Disabling the UAC from the above registry setting helped us.
Last week my client tried disabling from control panel settings (I'm not sure of the exact steps), but yesterday when I asked him to check this setting in registry and make the change with a reboot, did the trick.

Though every reboot of the proxy, this setting is reverted, and has to be applied manually - which we got to figure out a way to solve.

But now the proxy is configured and we are able to run file share backups and the Data lake backup (this was another issue with data lake, where in VBR always tried to access the Azure Data lake storage account using public IP address as it was not resolvable from the VBR server, which was not added to their domain)

This is great help of yours and it is a learning for me too.

Regards,
-Sumeet.