{"id":1327,"date":"2015-03-01T21:17:25","date_gmt":"2015-03-01T21:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tekhead.org\/blog\/?p=1327"},"modified":"2015-05-03T19:21:31","modified_gmt":"2015-05-03T18:21:31","slug":"howto-process-for-upgrading-veeam-backup-recovery-7-to-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tekhead.it\/blog\/2015\/03\/howto-process-for-upgrading-veeam-backup-recovery-7-to-8\/","title":{"rendered":"HOWTO: Process for Upgrading Veeam Backup & Replication 7 to 8"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a VMware vExpert we are kindly provided free licenses for Veeam Backup & Replication and Veeam One. I have been using Veeam B&R\u00a0for the last year and have successfully used it to protect half a dozen\u00a0of my key lab machines and do one or two\u00a0restores<\/a> over that time.<\/p>\n

The licenses we are provided with by Veeam\u00a0are based on a 365 day evaluation, so my backup server was reaching its expiry date this week. I was running Veeam B&R version\u00a07.x, so as part of the upgrade license I also needed to update the Veeam software from version 7\u00a0to 8.<\/p>\n

This turned out to be an incredibly easy process with\u00a0only a couple of minor tweaks at the end to get things up and running. As you can see from the screenshots below the installation and update of Veeam\u00a0is pretty much a next, next, finish type of installation.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also with mentioning that I have documented the process for upgrading Veeam B&R, but the process for upgrading Veeam One is pretty much the same.<\/p>\n

As with any standard upgrade to software running in a virtual machine, I started by taking a snapshot of that machine.<\/p>\n

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Next step was to mount the ISO file Veeam\u00a0into a virtual machine operating system and start the install wizard.<\/p>\n

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Of course I read every single word of the license agreement.<\/p>\n

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The installer recognised the previous version of the software and offered to upgrade to latest automatically.<\/p>\n

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I then pointed the install wizard to the evaluation license key provided to me by the folks at Veeam.<\/p>\n

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A number of basic checks are completed to ensure that the appropriate pre-requisites are in place.<\/p>\n

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Next you would enter the\u00a0service account for Veeam. Obviously being a home lab and me being incredibly lazy, this is the local machine administrator in this case. In any production environment this should of course be a dedicated account.<\/p>\n

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The\u00a0existing SQL express database instance is selected.<\/p>\n

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Veeam\u00a0recognises this has an instance on it which can be upgraded.<\/p>\n

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The installer is now ready to run.<\/p>\n

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After about five minutes installation is complete.<\/p>\n

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After a quick reboot, the server is back up and running and I log back in. When I launch Veeam B&R\u00a08 for the first time, it recognises that some server components still need to be upgraded.<\/p>\n

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Again this is just a next, next, finish setup.<\/p>\n

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The only issues I have seen after the upgrade were a couple of VMs which failed their backups. After a reboot of said machines, everything was right as rain and backups are running as normal.<\/p>\n

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Once I was sure everything was working properly, and had run a couple of successful backups, I committed and deleted the snapshots taken at the start of the process.<\/p>\n

Conclusion
\n<\/b>Overall the process was very simple and very slick, exactly what you want from a software upgrade. Particularly impressive considering this was a full version upgrade, not just a point release.\u00a0You can see why their marketing department came up with the tagline “It Just Works”!<\/p>\n

Although most organisations I have worked for in the past have generally used more traditional backup vendors,\u00a0Veeam is definitely enterprise ready and well worth considering. The only drawback, is that if you run a mixed environment of physical and virtual machines, you may require multiple backup platforms. Even then, Veeam Endpoint can do this in some scenarios AFAIK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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