Step by Step Guide Veeam B&R 9.5 U2 Upgrade

Veeam released Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5 Update 2, which contains some significant improvements: Cisco HyperFlex Systems (formerly HX-Series/SpringPath) support for Backup from Storage Snapshots functionality, HPE 3PAR StoreServ 3.3.1 support and improved scalability by migrating some API calls from SSH to RESTful API, Microsoft Hyper-V BigEndian platform support, Microsoft Exchange 2016 CU5 support for mailbox item recovery with Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Exchange, NetApp ONTAP 9.1 support, Oracle 12.2 support for all Oracle database backup and restore functionality, Veeam Agent for Linux 1.0 Update 1 (build 1.0.1.364) support, including new 1-Click FLR via Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager, Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows 2.0 (build 2.0.0.700) support, including application-item recovery support from agent backups, VMware vCloud Director 8.20 support and VMware vSAN 6.6 support.

You can learn more about Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 U2 new features here.

This technical article provides a step by step guide to upgrade Veeam B&R 9.5 Update 1 (version 9.5.0.580, 9.5.0.711, 9.5.0.802 or 9.5.0.823) to Veeam B&R 9.5 Update 2 build be version 9.5.0.1038 (Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5 2 Upgrade). If you need to upgrade your Veeam Backup Server (v8 or v9) you can follow this article.


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The first step is to realize a configuration backup of Veeam server (“Configuration Backup” menu on the screenshot below) and SQL database backup. If the Veeam Backup Server is deployed on a Virtual Machine, execute a backup of this VM with Veeam B&R or a snapshot.

Veeam Menu

When the backup is done, you can close Veeam software and restart the Windows server (reboot). Basically, I recommend you to stop properly the 6 Veeam services before upgrading (services.msc).


Running the Installer:

Veeam B&R 9.5 U2 Upgrade: You have to run the installation file “Setup.exe”.

Veeam files

Veeam Process

Installation Wizard:

Once wizard is launched, click on “Next” button.

Veeam Wizard

Veeam will prompt to install the upgrade, click “Install”.

Veeam Wizard

The upgrade took about few minutes to complete.






Once the upgrade completed, a prompt appeared to finalize the installation. Click on “Finish” button.

Post Reboot:

When the upgrade is done, I recommend you to restart properly the Windows server (reboot).

Once the reboot completes and Veeam B&R software has been opened, a prompt will appear to update all distributed components (especially Mount Server and vPower NFS). Click on “Apply” button.

Veeam Wizard

Veeam Wizard

Finally, when all components have been upgraded, you can click on “Finish” button.

Veeam Wizard

Veeam B&R 9.5 Update 2 does not require new job creation or any architecture changes for your existing backups and replication to work. If there are dedicated Veeam proxy servers in the environment, now is a good time to upgrade those servers, otherwise, Veeam is now ready to use. Version: 9.5.0.1038. I recommend you to execute active full backup to benefit from the new backup mechanism.


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You can learn more about Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 here.

You can learn more about Veeam Availability Suite 10 and VeeamON 2017 announcements here.
 

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