Veeam Backup 12 0 Whats New

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What’s New in V12?
Contents
Direct backup to object storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Trusted immutability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Cyber resiliency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Hybrid cloud optimized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Other features
Platform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Backup engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Backup data management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Backup infrastructure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Backup repository . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Scale-out Backup Repository (SOBR) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Network traffic management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Email notifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
VMware vSphere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Microsoft Hyper-V . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Image-level backup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Application-aware processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Backup scheduling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Backup copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
SureBackup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Recovery from image-level backups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Application item-level recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
File-level recovery for Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
File-level recovery for Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Instant VM Recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Secure Restore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Export . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
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What’s
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Continuous Data Protection (CDP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Agent Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Veeam Agent for Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Veeam Agent for Mac . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Veeam Agent for AIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Veeam Agent for Solaris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Application plug-ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Plug-in management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Plug-in for Microsoft SQL Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Plug-ins for Oracle RMAN and SAP HANA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Backup proxy appliances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Veeam Backup for AWS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Veeam Backup for Google Cloud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Veeam Backup for Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Container backups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
NAS backup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Backup to disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Backup to tape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Instant Recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Publish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Filer integrations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Backup storage integrations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Backup console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Enterprise Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Backup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Restore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Licensing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Veeam Universal License (VUL) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Community Edition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
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Storage integrations
Primary storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Universal Storage API v2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Cisco HyperFlex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
IBM Spectrum Virtualize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
HPE Nimble and HPE Alletra 5000/6000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
NetApp All SAN Array (ASA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Secondary storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
ExaGrid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Dell Data Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
HPE StoreOnce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Infinidat InfiniGuard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Fujitsu CS800 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Tape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Backup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Tape infrastructure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Experimental features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Platform support
Microsoft Azure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Microsoft Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Microsoft Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
VMware vSphere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Cloud Connect
API Enhancements
PowerShell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Backup engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
File-level recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Instant Recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Veeam Cloud Connect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
REST API for backup server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Backup infrastructure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Backup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Restore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
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What’s
New
Veeam® Backup & Replication™ v12, the foundational product component of Veeam Data Platform,
advances enterprise-grade recovery capabilities that ensure confidence in the face of disaster
or cyber-attacks across the hybrid cloud. The following is a list of the major new features and
enhancements added in V12.
Direct backup to object storage

Take full advantage of the unlimited scalability, built-in reliability and resiliency of on-premises and
cloud object storage without having to sacrifice backup and restore performance. With V12, you can
leverage object storage both as a regular backup repository and as ANY Scale-out Backup Repository™
(SOBR) tier. Object storage repositories can also be a target for both primary (i.e., backup) and
secondary (i.e., backup copy) jobs.
The unique benefits of object storage integration in V12 include:
Direct-to-Object — Whenever possible, protected data will be transferred from backup proxies
and agents directly to object storage, avoiding intermediary hops that could potentially affect
performance and reliability. Plus, in scenarios when a direct network connection to object
storage is not available, you can route the traffic through a redundant gateway servers pool.
Direct-to-Cloud — Reduce the overall cost and complexity of managing backups at the edge,
such as in Remote Office Branch Office (ROBO) environments, with direct backups to cloud
object storage. Please note that we continue recommending local backups as the first step
for data center environments due to the performance implications and extra cost of achieving
the 3-2-1 Rule when backing up directly to cloud object storage.
Immutable backups — Keep your backups safe in object storage with support for native
immutability technologies provided by on-premises and cloud object storage vendors. Malicious
actors will not be able to tamper with, encrypt or delete your recent backups for the specified
number of days following their creation. GFS backups are automatically protected for the entire
duration of the retention policy to satisfy compliance requirements.
Spaceless full backups — The spaceless full backup technology of ReFS and XFS-based Veeam
backup repositories is also available when you backup directly to object storage. Remain flexible
with your retention policies with the knowledge that your GFS full backups will not consume
additional object storage space.
Improved storage format — Using our learnings from years of observing our customers storing
their real-world workloads on object storage, we were able to significantly simplify our storage
format without impacting performance or increasing object storage costs. As a result of removing
the local index and the need to synchronize it between local and object storage, this new format
brings significantly improved reliability.
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What’s
New
Health check light — Managed-by-Agent backup jobs that use an object storage repository as
a target will perform light storage-level data corruption guard scans that will only check if all
required objects exist. This provides some balance considering the performance implications and
cloud egress costs of full content verification. All backup jobs managed by a backup server avoid
these issues with the help of automatically provisioned, in-cloud helper appliances that allow
users to perform full health checks.
Wasabi integration — As one of the most popular object storage options among Veeam users,
Wasabi now joins other directly integrated cloud object storage partners with a new, dedicated
UI for registering a Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage repository.
Smart Object Storage API — This newly introduced Smart Object Storage API (SOSAPI) allows
object storage vendors to integrate with Veeam Backup & Replication more deeply and improve
performance and user experience. Its first version enables vendors to report remaining physical disk
space in a bucket and gives them machine-level control over Veeam backup streams. For example,
they can instruct Veeam to write backup data of a particular machine directly to the specific cluster
node for faster performance. The launch partners for SOSAPI integrations are Scality (software
defined storage) and Object First (hardware appliance), with other object storage vendors planning
to release their integrations soon.
Trusted immutability
Ensure that your backups can always be restored after a cyberattack with comprehensive and
enterprise-grade immutability options from trusted vendors, including on-premises objects, block and
file storage, hardened repositories, deduplicating storage appliances, cloud object storage and tape.
Immutability for more backup types — In addition to existing functionalities for image-level backups,
V12 adds immutability options for NAS backups, standalone agent backups, backups of AWS and
Microsoft Azure-hosted workloads, transaction log backups and enterprise application plug-in backups.
Hardened repository improvements — Upgrading hardened repository components post V12
will no longer require you to enable the SSH Server for the duration of the upgrade process. This
dramatically simplifies repository management without compromising security. Furthermore, we
made hardened repositories more prominent in the UI and added a dedicated wizard to ensure
its secure configuration. The UI now has a dedicated repository type and existing hardened
repositories get converted to one automatically during the upgrade.
Microsoft Azure Blob Storage immutability support — We also added support for immutable
backups on Blob storage repositories. Note that, due to existing Azure object-level immutability
API limitations, this functionality is not currently supported for Managed-by-Agent backup jobs
and for Veeam Cloud Connect repositories when an object storage repository is configured for
direct transfer mode (without gateway servers).
HPE StoreOnce immutability support — V12 supports the creation of immutable backups on
Catalyst Stores with the ISV Controlled Data Immutability feature enabled.
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Cyber resiliency
Harden your backup infrastructure and stop cyber criminals at the door with the help of
the following features and improvements:
Multi-factor authentication — Secure access to the backup console with optional two-factor
authentication (2FA) that’s based on Time-Based One-Time Passwords (TOTP) as per RFC 6238.
You can enable 2FA for individual accounts in the Users and Roles settings of your backup server
and enroll in an authenticator application of your choice to receive these one-time codes.
Kerberos-only authentication — V12 can be deployed in environments with NTLM authentication

disabled for enhanced security. This includes all backup infrastructure components, backup
agents, enterprise application plug-ins and proxy appliances. Kerberos-only authentication is
supported by V12 right out of the box as long as managed servers and protected machines are
registered with the backup server through valid, resolvable DNS names (IP addresses are not
supported by Kerberos). NFS workloads require additional NFS Server and Client configurations,
please refer to the User Guide for more information.
Note: If you have already been using our existing capability that allows application-aware
guest processing in a network with NTLM disabled, please refer to the KB4393 before
performing the upgrade.
IPv6 support — V12 brings support for IPv6 communication in both IPv6-only and dual-stack
networks, giving preference to IPv6 over IPv4 addresses when both are available. This flexibility
allows you to set your backup infrastructure up in an IPv6-only network right away or gradually
migrate it to IPv6 by running it alongside your IPv4 infrastructure. IPv6 communication can be
enabled using the Preferred Networks dialog in the backup server settings.
gMSA accounts for Windows — Perform application-aware processing of Microsoft Windows

guests through password-less Group Managed Service Accounts (gMSA) without having to store
full credentials, including passwords in the backup server configuration. In Microsoft’s own
words, “Group Managed Service Accounts are the most secure type of service account for
on-premises needs. If you can move to one, you should!”
Single-use credentials for Linux — Perform Linux guest processing, recover files and manage
Linux backup agents through a preinstalled management agent and certificate-based
authentication without having to store powerful guest credentials in your backup server
configuration. For further hardening, you can even disable the SSH Server completely after
a management agent has been installed.
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What’s
New
Improved audit logs and alerts — Over 90 additional events were added to the Windows Event
Log and built-in audit logs based on customer feedback, including various tasks performed by
backup administrators. In addition, whenever a backup server fails to create an event log item,
it will now send the corresponding SNMP trap alert to notify users of this situation.
Automatic console lockouts — A configurable console lockout/timeout has been added to

automatically close idle backup console sessions. Worry not if picking up that coffee is taking
longer than expected!
Best practices analyzer — Most security breaches, data losses and failed recoveries can be avoided
by following just a few simple best practices. V12 introduces a built-in Best Practices Analyzer that
checks the backup server and product configurations and suggests important changes that can
improve security and increase the chance of successful recovery. We’re starting with just a few
checks in V12, but already have many more in the pipeline!
Hybrid cloud optimized

Achieve even greater efficiency and security across the hybrid cloud with immutable backups
for AWS and Azure-hosted workloads as well as industry-first and cloud-integrated, application-
aware backup agents that offer the following unique benefits:
Network-less discovery and deployment — The discovery of new workloads and automatic
installations of backup agents are all done through a native cloud API without a direct network
connection to those protected machines. Forget the network management and security
concerns of accessing your cloud environment from an on-premises backup infrastructure.
Dynamic protection scope — Much like you can protect multiple on-premises virtual machines
(VMs) by specifying the containers and tags you want to be protected, you can now create
Protection Groups for cloud VMs via identical public cloud management constructs.
In-cloud data flow — Back up your cloud VMs directly to object storage in the same cloud
provider without backup traffic traversing the internet and causing additional costs from egress
charges. Make sure you copy the created backups back to your on-premises data center or to
another cloud periodically to meet the 3-2-1 backup rule.
Full portability — Resulting cloud VM backups can be restored to any hyper-scaler or back to
an on-premises hypervisor VM, therefore not leaving you locked into a specific public cloud.
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Other features
In addition to the aforementioned major new features, V12 includes over 500 other enhancements
that are a response to customer feedback and ongoing R&D findings, the most significant of which
are listed below:
Platform
PostgreSQL support for a configuration database — Avoid the 10GB database size cap and
artificial performance limitations of Microsoft SQL Server Express Edition without breaking
the bank with support for free, multi-platform PostgreSQL as a configuration database engine.
Microsoft SQL Server continues to be supported and, for the time being, is recommended for
environments larger than a few thousand workloads. However, SQL Server is no longer included
with the product and must be installed manually.
Backup engine
New backup chain metadata format — New, per-machine metadata allows for much greater
scalability and more granular protection management. For example, V12 now allows users to
perform an Active Full or a Retry operation on individual machines as opposed to an entire job,
temporarily disabling the processing of some machines while they undergo maintenance, move
machines between jobs, etc. In addition, dependent job operations, like applying a retention
policy or transforming a backup chain, no longer need to wait for the entire job to finish first.
In order to take advantage of these new capabilities for existing backup chains, you must
upgrade them.
Policy-like jobs — V12 combines the flexibility of job-based management with the convenience
of policy-based management, bringing the best of both worlds for best-in-class protection
management. In addition to the ability to create very large jobs with a few thousand machines,
you can now easily move backups between jobs — just like changing a protection policy —
without triggering a new full backup or abandoning the existing backup chain. Just choose
a new job for your selected backup, and we will take care of transferring the existing backup
files to its repository, including adding the machine to the protection scope of the new job and
excluding it from the old one.
Background retention — Stop worrying about repository space being consumed by expired backups.
In addition to existing background retention processing for GFS backups, background retention in
V12 will now process ALL backups with a time-based retention policy, including backups linked to
a disabled job as well as orphaned backups by using their last known retention policy. This process
starts each day at midnight, however, you can always trigger it manually by right clicking the Backups
node. Want some backups to be kept indefinitely instead? We’ve got you covered, read on!
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What’s
New
Background health check — By popular demand, instead of being attached to a backup job,
storage-level corruption guard scans can now be scheduled to happen at a specific time,
independently of the backup job. This keeps your backup windows in check and removes extra
load from backup repositories while other backup jobs are still running.
New compression algorithm — The new algorithm behind High and Extreme compression levels
improves data reduction ratios by up to 20%, lowers CPU usage by up to 3x and increases
restore performance by up to 2x over the previously used one. Compared to the default Optimal
compression algorithm, which remains unchanged in V12, High compression now provides up to
20% (OS disks) and 60% (database disks) more data reduction at the cost of 2x CPU usage and
2x slower restores. Extreme compression provides up to 25% (OS disk) and 80% (database disk)
better data reduction at the cost of 10x CPU usage and 2x slower restores.
Unified symbolic link backup and restore behavior — Based on multiple requests, symbolic links
are now processed and restored as symbolic links without expanding them across all backup
and restore activities.
Block-cloning performance — This update also brings improved performance of full backup
transformation operations with asynchronous metadata writes. These related engine changes
resulted in the removal of UseUnbufferedAccess and DisableHtAsyncIo registry values, which
were replaced with a single DataMoverLegacyIOMode (DWORD, 1) value.
NFS 4.1 client performance — V12 also has improved read and write performance from/to
NFS 4.1 file shares used as a data source or as a backup repository.
Backup data management

VeeaMover — V12 delivers a native backup movement engine that can move backups between
any backup repository type. While such tasks were relatively easy to perform with block and
file storage through regular file management operations, the proliferation of object storage
and deduplication appliances called for a built-in capability for backup management. Best of all,
the source repository type does not need to match the target; VeeaMover can move backups
between any type!
Block clone awareness — The highly sought after capability of saving space from ReFS/XFS/
object storage block cloning during backup migrations is finally here! Not only does VeeaMover
preserve space savings while moving backup files between block clone aware repositories like
between ReFS and XFS, but it also creates space savings even if a source repository does not
support block cloning, like when moving backup files from SMB to XFS. How cool is that?
Streamlined repository change processes — Upgrading your backup storage has never been
easier! Just choose a new repository in the backup job’s settings and you will have the option to
transfer all existing backups to that location automatically with VeeaMover. Done!
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What’s
New
Move backups between jobs — Just choose the backup you want to move and we will take care
of the rest automatically. This includes moving existing backups to the repository that was used
by the target job with VeeaMover and automatically updating the inclusion and exclusion lists in
the source and target backup job so you don’t have to worry about doing that manually!
Copy backups between repositories — Want to put an entire backup chain to the side so that it
isn’t affected by the original retention policy? Now this process only takes five clicks because we
do all the work for you. You can even specify a custom retention policy for the copied backups if
you’d like them to be deleted automatically after a specific period of time.
Backup infrastructure
Backup repository
Multiple gateway server support — In addition to the automatic gateway selection mode, you
can now specify a pool of gateway servers you want to be used for reading and writing data
to/from a given backup repository. Gateways within a pool are prioritized based on network
connectivity and existing task load, with backup proxies that are involved in a current job being
top priority. Using multiple gateway servers is particularly beneficial for Fiber Channel (FC)
backup storage configurations in order to ensure redundancy while addressing the performance
issues of a single gateway server becoming a bottleneck.
Rotated drives cleanup — Repositories backed by rotated media now have the ability to
automatically clean up newly inserted disks from existing backups. Available options include
continuing an existing backup chain (i.e., existing behavior) and two new options which are:
delete backups that belong to the current backup job only, or delete all the backups found on
the drive, both of which start the new backup chain.
Scale-out Backup Repository (SOBR)
Object storage as performance extent — In addition to block and file storage-based extents,
Performance Tier can now use object storage extents as well. For performance considerations,
we recommend using on-premises object storage as a performance extent.
Support for multiple object storage extents — Both the Performance Tier and the Capacity Tier
can now be configured to use multiple object storage extents. This capability can be useful if your
object storage supports only a limited number of objects per bucket, in which case object storage
vendors usually recommend creating multiple buckets. Whenever multiple object storage extents
are used, SOBR will use a round-robin placement algorithm on a per-machine level.
Direct to archive — When using AWS S3 or Microsoft Azure Blob Storage as Performance Tier
extents, you now have the option to skip configuring the Capacity Tier altogether. In such
configurations, backups will be archived directly from the Performance Tier to the Archive Tier.
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Glacier Instant Retrieval support — This update also brings added support for the new Glacier
storage class for Archive Tier. With the same throughput and access latency as the S3 Standard
and S3 Standard-IA storage classes, this more expensive archive storage class is best suited for
scenarios when you expect that you’ll need to urgently access your archived backups.
SOBR rebalance — You can now perform a rebalance of storage consumption across block and file
storage-based Performance Tier extents to equalize the data distribution among them. Rebalancing
is designed for when you want to add new extents to Performance Tier and is not considered
a maintenance operation that you are expected to perform periodically. Note that a rebalance
operation puts all Performance Tier extents into maintenance mode for the duration of this activity.
VeeaMover integration — Extent evacuation and SOBR rebalance operations leverage the new
VeeaMover engine to preserve space savings from block cloning while backups are moved
between extents.
Strict data placement policy enforcement — By default, SOBRs violate your chosen placement policy
whenever data placement policies cannot be met to ensure that a backup can still be created.
V12 introduces a new option that can make backup jobs fail in these circumstances instead.
Network traffic management

Support for multiple internet rules — By popular demand, we’ve added the possibility to add
several “Internet” rules to address the different internet traffic throttling needs of multi-site and
multi-network environments.
Time-based throttling level — Our customers have asked for more flexibility around the control
of throttling levels depending on the time of day to enable them to reduce it outside of business
hours without having to disable throttling completely. V12 makes this possible with a new Unthrottle
setting that allows for a different bandwidth throttling threshold during specified off-hours.
Restore traffic throttling options — Network traffic throttling rules were previously not applied
to network traffic from any restore task to avoid having an impact on recovery performance.
However, with some of our restores becoming way too fast due to continuous optimization,
V12 adds an option to apply throttling to restore operations as well.
Email notifications
OAuth 2.0 support for email notifications — In addition to basic SMTP authentication, V12 now
supports secure authorization and access-token-based authentication for Google Gmail and
Microsoft 365 through the modern OAuth 2.0 protocol.
Active instant recoveries — New daily summary reports will remind you of all your active Instant
Recovery sessions that are still waiting to be finalized. This report can be suppressed by creating
the IRSuppressDailyReport (DWORD, 1) registry value under the HKLM\SOFTWARE\Veeam\Veeam
Backup and Replication key on the backup server.
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Full product version display — All email reports now include a full server version, including
the cumulative patch level displayed in the footer.
VMware vSphere
Linux backup proxy enhancements — V12 brings added support for Direct storage access transport
mode, which enables Linux proxies to perform direct backup from storage snapshots of NFS storage.
Hardened repository as a backup proxy — You can now use your hardened repository as a VMware
backup proxy in Network (NBD) transport mode. Advanced transport modes are not available since
they require backup proxy components to run as root, which dramatically expands the attack surface.
Improved replication performance — VMs with SeSparse snapshots (i.e., the default snapshot
format for VMFS-6) should see faster replication performance thanks to asynchronous write-to-
replica VM disks.
Backup I/O control latency minimums — In light of All-Flash storage proliferations, the minimum
allowed value for both latency controls was reduced to one millisecond.
Microsoft Hyper-V
Infrastructure caching — Similar to existing vSphere infrastructure caching, the backup server
will now also cache Hyper-V host information to reduce the number and frequency of WMI
queries. This reduces the load on Hyper-V hosts, improves job performance and makes the user
interface much more responsive in large infrastructures.
Compatibility checker enhancements — You can now restore and replicate VMs to
Hyper-V hosts of lower versions compared to the original host as long as the VM hardware
version is supported by the target host.
Image-level backup
Application-aware processing
PostgreSQL support — V12 added full application-aware processing, including transaction
log backups for point-in-time instance recoveries for PostgreSQL on Linux, like the existing
functionality for Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle databases.
Persistent guest agent enhancements — In the case of no direct network connectivity, guest
interaction proxies will now communicate with a guest agent over network-less, hypervisor-
based protocols like VIX and PSDirect.
Backup scheduling
More synthetic full scheduling options — By popular demand, in addition to weekly synthetic
full backups, synthetic full backups can now be scheduled to happen monthly. The usage of
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monthly synthetic full backups is not recommended for legacy backup repositories and should
only be considered for modern block cloning aware backup storage.
More monthly GFS scheduling options — To satisfy the compliance requirements that some of
our customers are facing, monthly GFS backups can now be scheduled for creation on the first,
second, third, fourth and final week of the month. This option may also be useful for spreading
the load of monthly full backup creation by multiple jobs pointed to a legacy backup repository
without block cloning support.
Increased GFS restore point limits — You can now create weekly GFS retention policies of up
to 9999 weeks long. Surprisingly, the previous UI limit of 999 weeks was not enough for some
customers who face certain compliance requirements!
Backup copy
Backup Copy jobs were made multi-platform to avoid the need to create individual platform-
specific Backup Copy jobs, which allows multiple workload types to be added into a single
backup copy job. New Backup Copy jobs come with the following changes and improvements:
Per-machine backup chains — New Backup Copy jobs will always create per-machine backup
chains through the new per-machine metadata format to enable the compatibility of backup
copies with many of the new V12 backup management features. Existing Backup Copy jobs will
continue to operate as is until upgraded.
Expanded platform support — You can now copy backups that were created by agent-based backup
jobs in Managed-by-Agent mode, backups created in Veeam repositories by standalone agents, and
backups created by Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV and Veeam Backup for Red Hat Virtualization.
This includes transaction log backups created by these backup jobs (in Immediate copy mode only).
Ability to change backup copy mode — All newly created Backup Copy jobs will support
changing modes from Immediate to Periodic and visa-versa at any time.
Active full for GFS restore points — By popular demand, we’ve added an option to create GFS
restore points through the active full approach — by reading the entire restore point content
from the source backup — to the Immediate copy mode as well. This is in addition to the current
synthetic full backup approach, which synthesizes GFS restore points from existing data in
the target repository.
Restore point selection option — With enhanced Periodic Backup Copy jobs, you can now
specify whether you want to wait for the running source job to finalize the restore point
that’s currently being created or immediately pick the latest available restore point instead.
Daily email reporting option — For those who want to reduce reporting noise from Backup
Copy jobs, you can now choose to receive a daily summary backup copy email report instead of
a separate report every time a backup copy job finishes processing.
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SureBackup
Agent-based backup support — In addition to host-based backups of VMware and Hyper-V VMs,
SureBackup® jobs can now process agent-based backups of cloud, physical and virtual Windows
and Linux machines.
Multi-platform jobs and application groups — Starting from V12 SureBackup jobs and Application
Groups are no longer platform-specific and can include a mix of VMware, Hyper-V and agent backups.
Processed machines will be converted to the data lab platform (i.e., VMware or Hyper-V) through
an on-the-fly P2V/V2V process.
Disable Windows Firewall — Application Groups now have the option to automatically disable
the Windows Firewall on processed machines before starting them up in a Virtual Lab. This
option can be useful if some of your custom application tests cannot be performed due to
a Windows Firewall blocking your external connection attempts.
Granular email notifications — Just like with backup jobs, you now can set up granular email
notifications per SureBackup job which will take priority over global notification settings.
Recovery from image-level backups

Application item-level recovery
Veeam Explorer for PostgreSQL — A new addition to the Veeam Explorer™ family allows you
to restore PostgreSQL instances with ease without the need for an extensive PostgreSQL
administration background. In addition, you can publish a point-in-time state of any instance
directly from backup to the selected database server for Dev/Test, and any changes made
to the published database can either be exported or discarded. With the service-based
architecture, you don’t have to depend on the user interface running while restoring or
publishing an instance. Any failed tasks caused by intermittent infrastructure issues can be
easily retried without having to go through the Publish wizard again.
Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SQL bulk restore — You can now pick and choose multiple databases
when performing a mass database export, restore or Instant Recovery. The Veeam Explorer will
then automatically create and start multiple tasks, one for each processed database.
File-level recovery for Windows

Compare with production — Compare a selected restore point to the production machine with
the new Backup Browser view that enables you to effortlessly identify all the file system objects
that were changed or deleted since the backup was taken.
Restore changes only — This new restore mode allows you to quickly initiate the recovery of all
the items that were changed or deleted since the selected backup was taken, which minimizes
downtime after a ransomware attack or user error.
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Compare attributes — Easily check differences in file system attributes for individual files and
folders through a new dialog that shows their values in production and backup side by side.
Restore permissions only — Restore access control lists (ACL) of your files and folders without
needing to overwrite the contents of the file. This restore mode can be useful in case of
an administrative error during the file system permission management process.
Restore directly to another machine — The ability to select a different target machine to restore
files to — previously available for Linux file-level recovery only — is now available for Windows
machines as well.
Alternate Data Streams (ADS) restore — When restoring a file or a folder from a backed up
NTFS volume to an NTFS volume, ADS content will be restored as well.
ReFS volume autodetection — V12 detects the presence of ReFS volumes in backups and
automatically mounts the ones with a VHD mount API. This helps to prevent BSOD with certain
combinations of a mount server and protected machine OS versions. This previously required
the use of the ForceVhdMount registry value as a workaround.
File-level recovery for Linux

Restore from storage snapshots without a helper appliance — File restores from storage
snapshots of Linux file systems can now be performed by mounting backups to ANY Linux
machine, whether that’s dedicated, targeted or the original one, which is always guaranteed to
understand the file system you’re trying to restore from.
FLR helper appliance improvements — V12 added the ability to specify a DNS Server to
the helper appliance to properly resolve DNS names.
Instant VM Recovery
Instant VM Recovery® to Hyper-V without space pre-allocation — When performing an instant
recovery of any backup to a Microsoft Hyper-V VM, you now have the option to not pre-
allocate the entire disk space on the target host’s storage. This reduces the time it takes to start
a published VM and removes the need to have the required physical disk space available.
Secure Restore
Bitdefender support — V12 added out-of-the-box integrations with Bitdefender antivirus.
Export
Export backups to another location — Improved Export Backup functionality now allows you to
select any destination for an exported restore point instead of having to save it into the same
repository where the original backup resides.
Export as a virtual disk enhancement — Export as a virtual disk functionality, which was only
available for agent-based backups, is now extended to host-based VM backups.
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Continuous Data Protection (CDP)

CDP proxy on Linux — Lower your operational costs and save the expense of OS licenses by
deploying CDP proxies on Linux servers.
Veeam Cloud Connect support — In addition to regular replication jobs, you can now also target
CDP policies to a cloud host that’s provided by the Veeam service provider of your choice.
VMware Cloud Director support — Eliminate downtime and minimize data loss for Tier-1 vApps by
continuously replicating them within and across your Cloud Director instances. Perform immediate
recovery to the latest state or desired point in time for individual VMs and entire vApps.
Enhanced security — Communication between all CDP components is now secured with
the TLS protocol.
Support for native VVOL snapshots — Native VVOL snapshot awareness should lead to
a reduced number of objects that are stored on VVOL-datastores, which improves CDP reliability
on storage devices that have low VVOL scalability limits.
Sparse block detection — Sparse disk blocks are now outright skipped from processing which
should result in improved initial replication performance.
Improved transaction log storage formats — Transaction logs are now stored as virtual disks
instead of as regular files, which significantly increases log write speed.
Proxy memory overflow protection — A long-standing issue with the replication of a particular
virtual disk should no longer impact the processing of other disks by the same proxy.
Agents
Agent Management
Recovery tokens — V12 introduces a simplified way to provide users who are performing a Bare
Metal Recovery with access to a particular backup. Backup administrators are now able to
generate time-limited access keys, or recovery tokens, that can be shared with users and enable
them to connect to a Veeam repository when performing Bare Metal Recovery.
Changed-block tracking for Windows workstations — In addition to Windows servers,

the Protection Group wizard now includes the option to install a Veeam changed block tracking
(CBT) driver on workstations that run on Microsoft Windows 10 or later for when a faster
incremental backup is desired.
Multiple cluster volume recovery — Multiple volumes are now restored to a cluster disk
concurrently in order to reduce recovery time.
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The following agents are included in the Veeam Backup & Replication V12 redistributable:
Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows

New V6 functionalities include backing up directly to object storage, a new SQLite-based
configuration database, CBT-based file-level backups for servers and workstations, OAuth 2.0
support for email notifications, support for the latest Microsoft Windows versions and more.
For a complete list of new features, please refer to the corresponding What’s New document.
Veeam Agent for Linux

New V6 functionalities receive advanced data fetcher technology and includes backup directly
to object storage, GFS retention policy, support for the latest distribution versions and more.
For a complete list of new features, please refer to the corresponding What’s New document.
Veeam Agent for Mac

New V2 functionality receives a graphical user interface and includes backup directly to object
storage, the ability to resume backup functionality, native support for M1 and M2 chips, FIPS
compliance, support for the latest MacOS versions and more. For a complete list of new features,
please refer to the corresponding What’s New document.
Veeam Agent for AIX

V4 brings Bare Metal Recovery with fully automated disk mapping on the new system.
Veeam Agent for Solaris

V4 brings Bare Metal Recovery with fully automated disk mapping on the new system.
Application plug-ins
Plug-in management
V12 adds the ability to centrally manage enterprise application plug-ins in a manner
that’s similar to our backup agents. This includes the following features and functionalities:
Centralized application plug-in management — The Protection Group wizard has been
expanded with additional options to control the installation and upgrade of application plug-ins
on included servers. This includes the collection of application topology and the detection of
Oracle RAC and SAP HANA scale-out systems during protection group rescans.
Certificate-based TLS authentication — Protection Groups use certificate-based authentication

when establishing a network connection to plug-ins.
Application backup policy — Orchestrate backups of Oracle RMAN, SAP HANA and SAP on Oracle in
a policy-driven way directly from a backup console, which eliminates the overhead that comes with
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configuring plug-ins and maintaining backup scripts manually on each database server. This allows
customers to choose between keeping backups in full control of the database administrator (DBA)
and using a backup-administrator-centric, policy-driven protection with minimal DBA involvement.
Granular database-level protection settings — To achieve greater flexibility, application backup

policies support different settings for individual databases. Each policy can target its own scope
of databases (including entire database servers and clusters) and have its own backup schedule
and repository.
Centralized backup monitoring — Application backup policies tap into native backup tool
outputs on each server and provide real-time monitoring, statistics and reporting for database
and redo log backups.
Recovery tokens — Backup administrators are now able to generate time-limited access keys,
or recovery tokens, to access plug-in backups of other servers. These tokens can be shared with
DBAs to enable them to connect to a Veeam repository and perform database restores with
native tools without having to assign them to any backup infrastructure role.
Plug-in for Microsoft SQL Server

This new application plug-in provides deep integration through a built-in Microsoft SQL Server backup
process (VDI) that allows you to perform native database backups directly to Veeam repositories.
VDI-based plug-ins leverage native capabilities to ensure backup consistency and, unlike
snapshot-based backups, does not rely on Microsoft VSS and enables you to back up advanced
SQL Server configurations like Windows Server Failover Clusters with shared volumes. This
is great from a scalability perspective too — the plug-in can handle protecting up to 2,000
databases per SQL server and up to 10,000 databases per backup server.
This plug-in was designed from the ground up to follow the best practices of protecting other
popular SQL Server deployment configurations like SQL Always On, where the backup jobs will
automatically read data from your preferred replica server.
To simplify configuration, backup and recovery tasks, this plug-in has a user interface (UI) that is
integrated directly into Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio where it can be launched right
from the toolbar! However, DBAs are still allowed to use any preferred external tools or favorite
scripts in order to schedule and execute full, differential or transaction log backups into Veeam
repositories. The plug-in UI even includes the ability to create SQL Server Agent jobs.
Achieving the 3-2-1 Rule is as easy as ever with Veeam. Backup Copy jobs support copying native
SQL backups to secondary repositories, and if you want to avoid managing these additional jobs,
then you just need to use a SOBR with a Capacity Tier in the Copy mode. Our proprietary backup
chain analysis enables you to offload inactive backup chains with the Move policy to free up
disk space in a Performance Tier, and helps to ensure that the immutability period is correctly
extended for still-active backup chains.
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Plug-ins for Oracle RMAN and SAP HANA

Performance improvements — V12 improves plug-in backup and restore speeds by up to three
times! Most of this performance boost was achieved by teaching data movers to fetch data
directly from an application, bypassing the plug-in manager process in between.
Reduced impact on production environment — We will no longer start a dedicated data mover
for each backup channel in order to reduce the number of data movers that run on a database
server. The schedule will ensure that the maximum number of data movers never exceed 2x
the available CPU cores. To further reduce the CPU usage, a plug-in configuration option,
calculateDigestsOnRepository, is available to move hash calculations to the repository. With all
these optimizations, the CPU load on the application server can be reduced by up to two times.
Linux ACL support for configuration files — You can now leverage Linux groups to restrict
changes to the plug-in configuration by backup operators.
Backup proxy appliances

Veeam Backup for AWS
New V6 functionalities available in March 2023 include immutable EC2 instance backups in
AWS S3 storage, brings scalability improvements for large-scale AWS environments, GP3 disk
support for appliances, multi-tenant container Oracle database support, OAuth 2.0 support for
email notifications, integration with Veeam Service Provider Console and support for Veeam
Universal License (VUL). For a complete list of new features, please refer to the corresponding
What’s New document.
Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure

New V5 functionalities available in March 2023 include immutable Azure VM and Azure SQL
backups in Azure Blob storage, scalability improvements for large-scale Azure environments,
load control for backup repositories, OAuth 2.0 support for email notifications, integration with
Veeam Service Provider Console and support for Veeam Universal License (VUL). For a complete
list of new features, please refer to the corresponding What’s New document.
Veeam Backup for Google Cloud

New V4 functionalities include granular protection for PostgreSQL databases and the ability to
store instance snapshots in a single region. This version also lowers management overhead with
support for cross-project service accounts, the ability to use organization folders as a policy
source and support for Veeam Universal License (VUL). For a complete list of new features,
please refer to the corresponding What’s New document.
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Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV

New V4 functionalities include a new modern UI, backup directly to object storage, immutable
backups, synthetic full backups, GFS retention, storage-level corruption guards and REST API
to manage backups and restores. We’ve also increased restore performance and added support
for Instant VM Recovery from Veeam Cloud Connect repositories. For a complete list of new
features, please refer to the corresponding latest Release Notes.
Veeam Backup for Red Hat Virtualization (RHV)

New V3 functionalities include backup directly to object storage, immutable backups, synthetic
full backups, GFS retention, storage-level corruption guard and multiple UI improvements. For
a complete list of new features, please refer to the corresponding Release Notes.
Container backups
Kasten K10 Backup for Kubernetes integration — K10 instances can now be registered with
a backup server which allows users to view all Kubernetes backup policies, sessions and backups
directly in the backup console, regardless of whether those backups are stored in Veeam backup
repositories or in another location. Invoking backup policy editing and restore operations will
redirect users to the contextually appropriate K10 workflow and allow for operation completion
through the K10 web UI.
NAS backup
General
SMB over QUIC support — File share backup jobs are now able to retrieve data from SMB files
securely and more efficiently with the QUIC protocol whenever a file share supports it.
Recovery throttling support — Network traffic throttling functionalities now support bandwidth
management for NAS restore activities as well.
Improved search performance — Optimized file search functionalities deliver search results up
to 25% faster in both the backup console and in the Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager web UI.
Storage-level corruption guard enhancements — Health check processes are now able to
detect and notify users about possible issues with the archived metadata as well. The repair
process is not initiated automatically and therefore must be manually triggered by a user after
addressing the root cause.
NFS fs_locations support — File share backup jobs now understand the concept of NFS referrals,
which enables you to more easily configure the protection of complex, distributed NFS file systems.
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Backup to disk
Copy mode — In addition to archiving older file versions that are no longer under the backup
retention policy, you now have the option to immediately archive current versions as well. In this
case, the archive will contain an entire copy of your backup, which will allow you to perform full
share restores to the latest state directly from an archive repository in the case of a complete
loss of the backup repository. Or, you can heal your backups in case a partial loss of data in
a backup repository by downloading the missing data from the archive.
Expanded exclusion rules — Avoid protecting unnecessary data with the ability to exclude
specific shares or folders by adding a path to excluded objects like \share\folder\path to
the exclusion rules. Use the new wildcard-based exclusion rules like *\folder to instruct the job
to never back up folders with these names. (This is supported for first-level folders only).
For NAS filers, hidden file shares \ipc$ \admin$ and \c$ are now excluded from processing by
default, but you can always remove these corresponding rules if desired.
Advanced backup mapping — You can now avoid performing a full backup after renaming or
moving a source file share through the Update-VBRNasBackupPath PowerShell cmdlet to point
your existing backup to the new file share location.
Backup to tape
Scalable file backup engine — No more struggling with backing up a large number of files
directly to tape with a tape-out engine that’s designed to export a small number of large image-
level backup files! The new, redesigned file backup engine in V12 was built to scale to billions of
files in petabytes of size which allows you to back up enterprise-scale NAS deployments directly
to tape with confidence. This new capability supports all the same data sources and is licensed
in the same way as the existing NAS backup-to-disk functionality.
NAS backup to tape — By popular demand, you can now use file share backups as a source for
Backup to Tape jobs, thus enabling the classic Disk to Disk to Tape (D2D2T) backup approach
for your enterprise NAS filers and file shares. To ensure recoverability at any point in time, this
functionality exports files and folders to tape in the native format as opposed to copying blobs
of the proprietary NOSQL database behind NAS backups. Since it’s a secondary backup, this
functionality does not consume a license.
Instant Recovery
In addition to the existing capability to publish file share content directly from backups as
a read-only share, you can now also perform instant file share recovery. This allows your end
users to get back to work in just seconds after the catastrophic loss of production NAS. This
functionality is enabled through these new capabilities:
Writable SMB file shares — Emulated SMB file shares that were published as a part of instant
file share recovery are now writable, which enables end users to continue working with
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an emulated file share normally, including the process of modifying existing files and creating
new ones. NAS backups are never modified and all changes are cached separately.
Migration to production — Once your new production NAS is back online, you can initiate
the process of restoring the most recent file share state from backups. This operation is done in
the background without impacting the end user’s ability to interact with the published file share.
Switchover — Choose one of three available switchover types to finalize your instant recovery.
The Automatic switchover mode will be performed as soon as the background restore process
completes and the Scheduled mode allows you to delay automatic switchover until off hours.
You can also choose the Manual switchover mode to interactively perform this process yourself.
Keep in mind that the published file share will become unavailable to end users for the duration
of the switchover in order to synchronize the final published file share state. This includes any
content change to the production NAS.
Publish
NFS shares publishing — Protected NFS shares can now be published directly from a backup
as emulated SMB shares. One of the use cases includes making the content of your backups
available to data analytics software that support SMB file shares as a data source.
Filer integrations
Nutanix Files integration — Register entire Nutanix Files filers as data sources and perform
file backups without having to obtain access permissions to each protected file share. In this
kind of configuration, backups will be performed from native storage snapshots out of the box,
which allows you to avoid issues with locked files without requiring complex setup and scripts
to manage snapshots. In addition, incremental backups are dramatically accelerated thanks to
the use of Nutanix Files Changed File Tracking (CFT) APIs to instantly query a list of changed or
removed files without needing to scan a file share.
Dell PowerScale (Isilon) — V12 adds support for OneFS versions 9.3 and 9.4 for a native filer
backup integration.
Backup storage integrations

Rotated drive support — File share backup jobs now support backup repositories that are
backed by rotated drives.
AWS Snowball Edge support — In addition to existing support for Microsoft Azure Data Box, V12
adds support for initial full-backup seeding to AWS Snowball Edge object storage for further
import into a corresponding public cloud.
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Backup console
Granular operations — You can now retry processing or perform Active Full backups of individual
machines without triggering this operation for all the machines in the job by right clicking
the corresponding machine in the job session.
Global exclusions list — Manage permanent or temporary exclusions easily and centrally by specifying
the master list of machines that you never want to be processed, even when added to a job explicitly
by mistake. The Global Exclusions dialog can be accessed from the main menu. In addition, these
kinds of machines will have the “Disable processing” option selected in the Inventory tab.
Detach backups from a job — You can now disconnect existing backups from the job, which
will make the job start a new backup chain by performing an active full backup in the next run.
Detached backups will appear in the Orphaned node under Backups and are still subject to
their last known time-based retention policy. If you want to avoid this, use the Export Backup
functionality or the new Copy Backup feature instead of detaching.
Dashboard redesign — Workload and storage registration dashboards have been redesigned to
simplify navigation within an ever-growing armada of supported platforms, storage vendors and
storage models, which Veeam Backup & Replication natively integrates with.
Last backup time — By popular demand, we will now display the date and time at which the last
backup was taken in the list of machines on the Inventory tab.
Exported backup retention — If you choose to have your exported, copied or VeeamZIP backups
be deleted automatically, the calculated backup removal date will be logged in the session log.
Repository membership and role — Newly added columns in the repository view will show
whether the given repository will serve as an extent member of SOBR as well as the extent type
(i.e., Performance, Capacity or Archive).
Instant recovery preferences — The state of checkboxes on the last page of the Instant
Recovery wizard will now be saved on a per-user basis to help make commonly performed
recoveries a little faster.
Session initiator logging — All Restore and System sessions will now display the account of
the user who initiated the operation.
History tab improvements — All still-active sessions (i.e., those with no End Time) will now be
shown at the top of the list when sorting it by End Time.
Update notification improvements — The update notifications engine has been improved to
include notifications about cumulative patches.
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What’s
New
Enterprise Manager
General
Certificate-based authentication — Backup administrator credentials for each managed backup
server no longer need to be stored in the configuration database. Once the backup server has
been registered with the Enterprise Manager server, the following communication will use
certificate-based authentication with automatically generated certificates.
Backup server preferences — We will now remember your choice of backup servers on
a dashboard page and will display previously selected servers by default.
Improved email reports — Multiple improvements in the email report content and layout.
Export support logs — Collect logs requested by Veeam Support more easily with the new Log
Export functionality.
Backup
CDP for VMware Cloud Director — Manage existing VCD CDP policies and their replicas in
the Enterprise Manager.
Catalyst Copy jobs — Manage HPE StoreOnce Catalyst Copy jobs in the Enterprise Manager.
Quick backup — Trigger Quick Backup operations in the Enterprise Manager for Managed-by-
Server agent-based backup jobs.
High priority jobs — Change job priorities in the web UI and recognize high priority jobs in the job lists.
Restore
Instant VM Recovery — Perform instant recovery for VMware vSphere, VMware Cloud Director,
Microsoft Hyper-V VMs and file shares directly from backups and storage snapshots through the web
UI. The option to finalize recovery with the Migrate to Production operation is also available.
Restore to another location — In addition to in-place restores, you can now perform a full VM
restore to another host or storage and specify all your other related placement settings.
PostgreSQL database restore — Perform point-in-time instance restores from application-aware
backups of PostgreSQL servers yourself or delegate them to database administrators and help
desk operators.
VM templates restore — You can now search for and restore VMware VM templates.
Exchange item-level restore improvements — You no longer have to store an AD account
that’s a member of Domain Administrator or Organization Management groups in Veeam Backup
Enterprise Manager database permanently. Instead, you can interactively provide an account
with limited rights to a reduced scope of mailboxes when starting a restore.
Search result sorting — Performing file-level recovery is now easier with files sorted
alphabetically by name in the search results.
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What’s
New
Setup
This new, completely reworked setup experience is aimed at one goal — making the installation
and upgrade process as smooth as possible. Key highlights include:
New setup experience — We like to keep things simple, so we’ve preserved all the familiar
functionalities of the old setup wizard while getting rid of all the annoying stuff and wrapping
it up in a new and shiny modern UI. You no longer have to worry about prerequisites, select
multiple checkboxes or customize anything — unless you really want to!
Streamlined upgrade — We’ve revised our upgrade pre-flight check functionalities and will now
present all your detected configuration issues in a much easier to use format. See a full report with all
the details, copy and share it with your colleagues, address the issues and upgrade with confidence!
Licensing
The best change is no changes, and we’re happy to say this again! V12 still uses the same license
file format that was introduced in V10. These license files are no longer tied to a particular
software version which allows you to continue using your existing license file for V12 as well as
long as your maintenance contract is still active.
Veeam Universal License (VUL)

Doubled license buffer — Users with the License auto update functionality enabled will now enjoy
a two times larger license buffer that lets them exceed their VUL usage by up to 20% or 20 licenses
(whichever is greater). Note that an increased buffer requires the license update check to happen
successfully at least once per month, so make sure this connection is not blocked by your firewall.
Community Edition
Now with even more features — The updated Veeam Backup & Replication Community Edition
V12 benefits from many of the new features and enhancements introduced in V12. For more
information, refer to the edition comparison document.
Cloud-native backups — Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure, for AWS and for Google Cloud are
now included in Community Edition as part of the 10-license allowance.
Support Community Edition by upgrading to Veeam Data Platform Essentials if possible! This
subscription costs less than a dinner in a fancy restaurant, while giving you access to ALL
the features and 24.7.365 customer support! These conversions help us continue to offer free
enterprise-class data protection to those who can’t afford it.
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What’s
New
Storage integrations
Primary storage
General
Storage discovery optimizations — Automatic storage rescan logic has been revised to avoid
unnecessary scans that impact storage performance. The number of heavy VMFS rescan
operations has been reduced significantly and they should only happen when collecting or
updating volumes and snapshots information is actually required.
Universal Storage API v2

The new version of USAPI enables storage vendors to take their Veeam integration to the next
level with a set of new interfaces that enable the following functionalities:
Snapshot replication orchestration — Allows backup jobs to leverage existing storage

replication relationships to create storage-based snapshot replicas as additional restore points.
This also enables you to perform backups from secondary storage arrays to avoid any load from
backup activities on your primary storage array.
Snapshot archiving orchestration — This allows backup jobs to manage the offload of volume
snapshots to a different type of storage device that’s supported by a storage vendor and track
them as additional available restore points.
Synchronous replication support — This allows backup jobs to create coordinated storage snapshots
and track them as additional available restore points on dual storage system configurations that
serve as the same production volume from multiple storage management backends. This enables
integration with both Active/Active and Active/HotStandby configurations.
The development and launch partner for USAPI V2 is Pure Storage with their new plug-in for its
FlashArray product line being available immediately.
Note: Existing USAPI V1 plug-ins remain fully supported with Veeam Backup & Replication v12.
Cisco HyperFlex
Multi-vCenter configuration support — V12 leverages the new HyperFlex API for VMware
vCenter server to VMware ESXi host matching to enable full support for environments that have
multiple HyperFlex clusters under the same vCenter Server and multiple HyperFlex clusters with
a separate vCenter Server for each cluster.
IBM Spectrum Virtualize

Volume replication orchestration — Added support for both the snapshot replication (i.e.,
Global Mirror) and the synchronous replication (i.e., Metro Mirror and HyperSwap) technologies
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What’s
New
for IBM Spectrum Virtualize based storage. This enables secondary storage array support for
backup from storage snapshots and snapshot-only jobs.
Compressed snapshots support — For IBM FlashSystem volumes with support for hardware
compression that’s based on IBM FlashCore modules, snapshot compression will be used
automatically.
HPE Nimble and HPE Alletra 5000/6000

Synchronous replication support — V12 adds support for synchronous replication and
coordinated snapshots, including deployment configurations with Peer Persistence for
application-transparent failover. This enables secondary storage array support for backup from
storage snapshots and for snapshot-only jobs. This functionality is supported for HPE Nimble
and HPE Alletra 5000/6000 storage array with Nimble OS version 5.1.4 or later.
NetApp All SAN Array (ASA)

NetApp ASA support — V12 adds support for NetApp ASA for storage snapshot integration.
Secondary storage
ExaGrid
Fast cloning support — V12 integrates with native block cloning functionality that was
introduced in ExaGrid version 6.2 for a dramatic increase in synthetic full backup performance.
Dell Data Domain

Longer incremental backup chains — The maximum number of increments before the next
periodic full backup has been increased to 120 restore points in order to align with increased
Data Domain scalability limits.
DD OS and DD Boost support — V12 has added support for DD OS versions up to 7.10 and
updated DD Boost SDK to version 7.7.1 LTS.
HPE StoreOnce
HPE StoreOnce immutability support — V12 supports immutable backups on Catalyst Stores
with the ISV Controlled Data Immutability feature enabled. This functionality requires Catalyst
Stores in the compliance mode, which in turn forces Dual Authorization that effectively restricts
the modification and deletion of immutable files by StoreOnce administrators without Security
Officer role approval. This functionality requires StoreOnce firmware version 4.3.2 or later.
Fixed block size chunking — V12 enables the Enforce fixed block chunking setting on a newly
created Catalyst store which improves incremental backup and synthetic full performance up to
4x-5x times per stream (based on HPE’s own tests) compared to variable block processing. This
performance boost is achieved thanks to the Catalyst Client using fixed block chunking backup
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What’s
New
files that were pre-aligned by Veeam with the Align backup file data blocks backup repository
setting. This functionality requires StoreOnce firmware version 4.3.2 or later.
HPE Cloud Bank Storage support — With V12, you can use HPE Cloud Bank Storage —
an extension of HPE StoreOnce Catalyst — for leveraging external lower-cost object storage as
underlying storage, as a target backup repository for Catalyst Copy jobs, which helps to reduce
long-term retention costs. HPE StoreOnce firmware version 4.3.2 is required.
Catalyst Copy support for more platforms — Backups that were created by Veeam Agents
for Microsoft Windows and for Linux in both managed-by-agent and standalone modes as well as
backups created by Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV and Veeam Backup for Red Hat Virtualization
can now be used as the source for Catalyst Copy jobs.
Infinidat InfiniGuard
V12 integrates natively with Infinidat InfiniGuard, including a dedicated UI wizard, storage detection
logic and support for native block cloning capabilities.
Fujitsu CS800
V12 integrates natively with Fujitsu CS800, including a dedicated UI wizard, storage detection
logic and support for native block cloning capabilities.
Tape
Backup
Expanded workload support — Backup-to-Tape jobs now support exporting any backup copies
that were created by new multi-platform Backup Copy jobs in either Immediate or Periodic
modes, regardless of workload type.
Virtual synthetic performance — Advanced data fetcher technology is now used for NFS-based
backup repositories to significantly improve virtual synthetic-full export performance.
GFS monthly fulls with daily incrementals — Backups to a daily media set can now be
configured with periodic monthly full backups in addition to the previously available weekly full
backup option. This provides additional flexibility in tape GFS rotation.
Tape infrastructure
Tape server on Linux — In addition to Windows-based tape servers, you can now register tape
libraries and tape drives that are connected to Linux servers.
LTO-9 support — All tape functionalities were made aware of the LTO-9 tape initialization
process and will now correctly wait for the initialization to finish instead of timing out in case
the initialization takes a long time.
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What’s
New
Tape auto-eject — Tapes will now be automatically ejected from the tape library’s drives upon
the completion of Inventory and Catalog operations to prevent users from accidentally erasing them.
Waiting for tape notification enhancements — Tape jobs will now send a detailed email report
whenever it’s stuck in a situation that requires intervention from a backup administrator. This
notification includes essential details like the tape library, media pool, media set, last written
and oldest expired tape information to help you determine the most suitable tape to continue
the job with.
Experimental features
The following experimental behavior mods can be used by creating the corresponding value
under the HKLM\SOFTWARE\Veeam\Veeam Backup and Replication key on the backup server.
Disable extra barcode scans — Create the TapeSuspendBarcodeValidation (DWORD, 1) value to

make tape media import operations avoid doing extra barcode scans. This can help accelerate
the migration of tapes across libraries that are connected to the same backup server. Be sure you’re
only using the unique barcodes across all connected tape libraries before enabling this option.
Return expired tapes to free media pools — Create the TapeMarkExpiredMediaFree (DWORD, 1)
value to immediately return any expired tapes into the Free media pool. With this mode, tapes
will no longer be constantly assigned to the same media pool after it expires, which makes tape
management less predictable. However, this also allows you to maximize tape capacity usage
across all media pools.
Platform support
Microsoft Azure
Azure AD application support — Backup servers can now leverage service accounts (a.k.a.
Azure AD Applications) to access Microsoft Azure resources like subscriptions, resource groups,
storage accounts, etc.
Tags integration — You can now assign tags to restored Azure IaaS VMs to ensure they are still
properly categorized according to your policies.
Microsoft Applications
Microsoft SQL Server 2022 — V12 adds support to SQL Server 2022 for application-aware processing,
transaction log backups and in Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SQL Server. In addition, SQL Server 2022
is now supported for hosting a Veeam Backup & Replication configuration database.
Microsoft SharePoint Server Subscription Edition — Added support for the latest version of SharePoint
Server, including application-aware processing and Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SharePoint.
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2022 — Support for the latest version of SCVMM.
CONTENTS 29
What’s
New
Microsoft Windows
Windows 10 22H2 and Windows 11 22H2 — This is supported as a guest OS for application-aware
processing, for agent-based backup job protection and for the installation of Veeam Backup &
Replication and its components.
Linux
V12 brings added support for the following version of supported Linux distributions as a guest OS
for application-aware processing, for agent-based backup job protection and for the installation of
Veeam Backup & Replication components. This includes:
• Ubuntu 22.04
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.6, 8.7, 9.0 and 9.1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 15 SP4
• Oracle Linux (RHCK) 9.0 and 9.1
And in addition, for agent-based backup only:

• Oracle Linux (UEK) 9
• Fedora 36 and 37
• openSUSE Leap 15.4
VMware vSphere
vSphere 8.0 — In addition to basic compatibility provided by V11a, V12 delivers full vSphere 8
support, including new features like VMs with virtual hardware version 20 and vSphere DataSets
backup and restore.
Cloud Connect
In addition to benefitting from core platform enhancements like IPv6 support, Veeam Cloud
Connect V12 includes many new features and enhancements for service providers that offer
BaaS, DRaaS and cloud repository as a service, the most significant of which are listed below:
CDP to Cloud Connect — In addition to regular replication jobs, CDP policies can now target
a cloud host from a Veeam Cloud Connect service provider. On the service provider side, both
VMware vSphere and VMware Cloud Director are supported as targets.
Instant Recovery as a Service — MSPs that provide BaaS can now instantly recover any tenant
workload as VMware vSphere VMs by running them directly from unencrypted backups stored in
cloud repositories.
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What’s
New
Instant Recovery for Nutanix AHV backups — Tenants can now instantly recover AHV VMs from
backups stored in cloud repositories.
Stronger NEA encryption algorithm — For increased security, we updated the encryption
algorithms used by Network Extension Appliances (NEA).
Rental licensing enhancement — Incoming cloud-native backups that were created by Veeam
Backup for AWS / for Microsoft Azure / for Google Cloud through a Rental license will no longer
consume points on the Veeam Cloud Connect service provider side.
API Enhancements
In addition to adjusting our PowerShell SDK for compatibility with the aforementioned new
features, here are just a few highlights of the most noteworthy additions to our APIs:
PowerShell
Backup engine
Upgrade to per-machine metadata — This new cmdlet for upgrading existing backup chain
metadata may come in handy for an automatic upgrade of a large fleet of backup servers.
Active Full and Retry operations — New parameters in existing Start* cmdlets allow automation
to trigger Active Full and Retry operations for individual machines in a backup job.
Detach backups — Use this new cmdlet to detach backups from a job. Detached backups will
appear in the Orphaned node under Backups and are still subject to their last known time-based
retention policy.
Apply retention policy — New cmdlet to granularly apply the retention policy to selected backups.
VeeaMover — New cmdlets to move machines between jobs, move and copy entire backups
between repositories.
File-level recovery
Mount to backup console — A new cmdlet to mount backups to a server with the backup console.
Compare with production — New cmdlets and parameters that allow you to compare files in
a selected restore point with the production machine and restore changed items only.
Stop recovery session — New cmdlet for stopping file-level and item-level recovery sessions
and unmounting published backups.
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What’s
New
Instant Recovery
Instant recovery to a Hyper-V VM — A new set of cmdlets for instant recovery of image-level
backups from any platform to Microsoft Hyper-V.
Veeam Cloud Connect

Instant recovery for tenant backups — A new set of cmdlets that allow users to perform instant
recovery from tenant backups on the service provider side.
REST API for backup server

Backup infrastructure
Backup server info — V12 has added a new endpoint with information on the backup server
version, build and patch level.
SOBR management — Control extent mode, evacuate backups, rebalance and manage SOBR
access permissions.
Backup
vSphere tags support — Specify tags in backup job settings, including application-aware processing.
Restore
Entire VM restore — Added support for entire VM restores, except for the Staged Restore mode.
Instant VM Recovery — Added full support for managing instant recovery, migration to
production, obtaining a collection of all active IR mounts.
Recovery tokens — Added support for CRUD operations for agent recovery tokens, including
expiration date prolongation.
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Direct backup to object storage

The unique benefits of object storage integration in V12 include:

Kerberos-only authentication — V12 can be deployed in environments with NTLM authentication

gMSA accounts for Windows — Perform application-aware processing of Microsoft Windows

Automatic console lockouts — A configurable console lockout/timeout has been added to

Hybrid cloud optimized

Backup data management

Network traffic management

Recovery from image-level backups

File-level recovery for Windows

File-level recovery for Linux

Continuous Data Protection (CDP)

Changed-block tracking for Windows workstations — In addition to Windows servers,

Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows

Veeam Agent for Linux

Veeam Agent for Mac

Veeam Agent for AIX

Veeam Agent for Solaris

Certificate-based TLS authentication — Protection Groups use certificate-based authentication

Granular database-level protection settings — To achieve greater flexibility, application backup

Plug-in for Microsoft SQL Server

Plug-ins for Oracle RMAN and SAP HANA

Backup proxy appliances

Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure

Veeam Backup for Google Cloud

Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV

Veeam Backup for Red Hat Virtualization (RHV)

Backup storage integrations

Veeam Universal License (VUL)

Universal Storage API v2

Snapshot replication orchestration — Allows backup jobs to leverage existing storage

IBM Spectrum Virtualize

HPE Nimble and HPE Alletra 5000/6000

NetApp All SAN Array (ASA)

Dell Data Domain

Disable extra barcode scans — Create the TapeSuspendBarcodeValidation (DWORD, 1) value to

• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 15 SP4

• Oracle Linux (RHCK) 9.0 and 9.1

And in addition, for agent-based backup only:

• openSUSE Leap 15.4

Veeam Cloud Connect

REST API for backup server

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