Veeam Best Practice - Patching and Rebooting VB&R Servers

[AdrianHinton]

Hi,

What are Veeam's best practice recommendations for both restarting VB&R servers (Targets and VB&R servers) and applying Windows updates and restarting?

[foggy]

The only recommendation that comes from the top of my head is not restarting Veeam B&R components (management server and especially proxy and repository servers) while backups are running.

[AdrianHinton]

Thank you Foggy. That is my way of thinking and also what I have been doing. I was just hoping that I wasn't missing some recommendations such as stopping certain services.

[foggy]

No, there's no need to do that.

[chrisdearden]

What about where SQL transactions logs / copy jobs are running ? those processes are more or less continuous.

[btmaus]

Does Veeam advise that we should disable all the jobs before we patch and reboot the Veeam servers?

[Gostev]

Doing this will certainly not hurt.

[stb74]

Hi

I am looking some advice around windows patching of backup/proxy server when running SQL log backups. Before the reboot do we just disable the backup job which will then stop the log backup then reboot. What affect does this have on the log backup and do we just simply enable to job again when the server starts backup again.

[DGrinev]

Hi,

The only thing to keep in mind that you should reboot servers when all the jobs are disabled. Thanks!

[rblanco]

Greetings to All,

I too am interested in how to perform monthly patching for our Veeam B & R environment:

Veeam Management Server and 6 proxy servers
Veeam One and Enterprise Manager seem straight forward but do correct me if mistaken.

From what i've read above, we have to disable ALL the backup jobs before rebooting, especially the management server.

So in our case we have Backup Copy and File Share backups running during the day 6am to 6pm - What we've done is to STOP the job "Gracefully" and sometimes it stops and other times we have to repeatedly STOP until it finally does so. Then right-click and disable.

Do we have to still need to disable the remaining jobs even though they are not scheduled to run during the day?

Is there any way to pause the jobs instead without receiving all the FAILURES being reported by Veeam
"5/11/2021 2:49:28 PM :: Job aborted due to server termination
5/11/2021 2:49:28 PM :: Processing finished with warnings at 5/11/2021 2:49:28 PM

Our Veeam infrastructure will be monitored soon by 3rd party and it looks like patching events in this environment will generate ALOT of tickets to manage and what we want to avoid. Again, is there a way to safely pause the jobs or a KB to help us plan our patching events.

Any guidance on this matter will be appreciated. What does the maintenance mode for the proxy's do and is their a maintenance mode for the Veeam Management Server?

Thank you in advance.

[Vitaliy S.]

Hi,

Do we have to still need to disable the remaining jobs even though they are not scheduled to run during the day?

To be on the safe side - yes. The main reason for this requirement is to make sure no jobs are running or are scheduled to run during the update/patching process.

Is there any way to pause the jobs instead without receiving all the FAILURES being reported by Veeam
"5/11/2021 2:49:28 PM :: Job aborted due to server termination
5/11/2021 2:49:28 PM :: Processing finished with warnings at 5/11/2021 2:49:28 PM

There is no way to pause jobs, only to disable them it is happening right now.

Our Veeam infrastructure will be monitored soon by 3rd party and it looks like patching events in this environment will generate ALOT of tickets to manage and what we want to avoid. Again, is there a way to safely pause the jobs or a KB to help us plan our patching events.

To avoid a lot of tickets backup server maintenance should be performed with a declared window. For example, in Veeam ONE we have an option to suppress alarms for backup servers during maintenance.

Any guidance on this matter will be appreciated. What does the maintenance mode for the proxy's do and is their a maintenance mode for the Veeam Management Server?

The maintenance mode for the proxy means that this proxy will not be assigned to any of the jobs. If you disable all jobs controlled by the backup server, then this effectively means that your backup server is in maintenance mode as no activity will be performed.

Thanks!

[rblanco]

Thank you Vitally, S this is most helpful. Especially the Veeam One suppressing of alarms.