Release Information for Veeam Plug-In for Microsoft Azure 8 Cumulative Patches

Below are details about each of the Cumulative Patches that have been released for Veeam Plug-In for Microsoft Azure version 8.

Each subsequent Cumulative Patch also includes all fixes present in the previous Cumulative Patches.

Enhancements

General

• API usage for storage accounts and snapshot handling has been improved, which should result in reduced Microsoft Azure costs.

Resolved Issues

General

• Under certain conditions, the infrastructure rescan procedure may fail with the following error message:

  Error: Failed to perform the full synchronization cycle
  

• After upgrading to v8, the Veeam backup appliance may be unable to detect Storage Accounts and File Shares under certain conditions.
• The infrastructure rescan operation may take an unusually long time to complete.
• When backing up an Azure VM with Veeam Backup & Replication, the backup appliance changes the permissions of the %programdata%\Veeam\ folder in the guest OS of the processed VM.

Backup

• Under certain conditions, the backup policy may fail with the following error message, which can result in backup data corruption:

  Item either was not backed up successfully or restore chain is corrupted
  

• Under certain conditions, the backup policy may create incomplete restore points, resulting in backup data corruption.
• When multiple backup repositories are used in a single policy, the backup operation may fail with the following error message:

  Data block not found
  

• Azure SQL backup may fail with 0 bytes transferred and the following error message:

  Failed to invoke agent command: DataTransfer.SyncDisk. TCP stream was closed
  

• Configured worker profiles are ignored when processing Azure SQL instances.
• The backup policy may fail with the following error message:

  Failed SAS export: Too many simultaneous imports or exports using disk access object.
  

• vNet backup policy fails with the following error message:

  Response payload size is 18005485 and has exceeded the limit of 16777216
  

• Veeam Backup & Replication may display incorrect information about restore points unless a full rescan of the Veeam backup appliance is performed.

Guest Processing

• After upgrading to version 8 and running backup policies for VMs, the VSS process fails on the German locale of Microsoft Windows.

Restore

• Restoring a VM with a static IP configuration fails when the target network has a different IP range.
• The restore operation may fail with the following error message:

  Failed to restore auto-shutdown settings. Error: Invalid URI: The URI is empty.
  

• File-level restore to the original location fails when the target VM is located in a different subscription than the worker.
• VM restore to the original location may fail with the following error message:

  The resource batch move request has '1' validation errors. ErrorCode: ResourceMoveValidationFailedContent