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Hi,
I’ve been asked to upgrade veeam from 12.3.1 to 12.3.2.

In the instructions I’ve been given, it says "log in to {veeamvbr server} as svc_veeam but no-one seems to know the password. It’s a domain account so I can change the password or I can just run the upgrade while logged in as the domain admin.

Is it ok to do this or could it cause problems?

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Personally, I’d refrain from changing the password in case it’s being used by other things. From the name svc_veeam I’d assume that’s a service account as well?

I’ve happily updated Veeam across a number of servers for clients using the domain admin account.

My 2c, YMMV.

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Yes, just run it as a DA.

You may need an SQL password if you’re using SQL backend.

SVC is likely a service account as noted. Probably for connecting to other devices for indexing.

Someone in the company should know about this account though.

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Recent Veeam installs are Postgresql

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I just upgraded my Veeam this morning.
These are the steps I took:
PowerShell as Admin Get-Service Veeam* | Stop-Service -Force
Check Services to verify all are stopped
Go into Veeam and Disable all jobs under ‘Jobs’
Make sure all tasks in Task Manager are done
Run the update
Do not ‘check’ Automaticly update remote
Get-Service Veeam* | Start-Service
Open Veeam to confirm
Update
Enable all backups that were Disabled previously

There is a reboot in the latter stages, I just didn’t note when

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One hopes this order isn’t specific, because you wont get in to Veeam to disable the jobs if you’ve stopped the services.

That said, it’s not a step I take, if the services are not running, nor are the jobs, part of the upgrade process will deal with these.

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everything is up and running 100%

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Coming here to mention this, no need to manually end the jobs unless you’re using CDP policies, and that’s only for best practice reasons.

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If this was for me, you may have missed my point.

You can’t login to Veeam if you’ve already stopped the services.

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I mean, I just download the latest ISO from the Veeam website. Then you run it on the machine with administrator credentials and it will detect an installed instance, upgrade it, handle all the services and stuff automatically.

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Yep, that’s all most of us do as well, but the Veeam instructions often state you’re supposed to pause running/scheduled jobs first so that there’s no data corruption. If you don’t have a scheduled job that’ll run during the timeframe, you’re good. If you’re running CDP policies, it’s best to stop those, because it can destroy them and you’ll have to start from scratch…depending on the size of the systems being protected, that could be quite a long process!

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Please be aware that Veeam best practice has been to NOT join any of the Veeam infrastructure to the same domain that it’s backing up.

Either go with a workgroup, or setup a completely independent domain (in a new forest).

Having it joined to the domain is a massive security risk. I would strongly (that’s an understatement) suggest that you follow Veeam’s best practices advice regarding this.

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Was VBR installed with scv_veeam ? Most might have installed using local administrator or Domain Admin…

I think so far VBR updates are rather idiot-proof except for that super huge download or “expanded” ISO file (over 12GB).

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