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The new v11.2.1 update for NAKIVO Backup & Replication is now available for download, featuring full support for Proxmox VE 9.1, expanded platform compatibility and multiple reliability and usability improvements. What’s New in v11.2.1? Proxmox VE 9.1: Full backup and recovery support for workloads running on the latest Proxmox VE release NAS Licensing: New TB-based subscription SKUs for file share backup capacity, with licensing UI updates to track purchased and consumed capacity Expanded Platform Compatibility: Added support updates across VMware, Oracle RMAN, Dell-EMC, QNAP and more Additional bug fixes and performance improvements across the platform For the full list of improvements and fixes, check out the release notes. Get Started with v11.2.1 Upgrade your NAKIVO Backup & Replication instance and try the latest improvements today! UPDATE TO v11.2.1

Hello, Thank you for your suggestion. The feature request has been submitted to our product team for review and consideration. Should you need any further information, please do not hesitate to contact NAKIVO customer support at support@nakivo.com with your ticket ID #406258.

Hello @Markus Obermeier, Physical backup is performed on a disk/partition level. It is not possible to exclude particular files and folders. To minimize recovery time, disks/partitions that are not required to boot may be excluded.

In my opinion, the NFR license should allow access to all features of NAKIVO Backup. It’s hard to understand why the trial version and the free 1-year version allow this, but the NFR license does not. As a partner, you need to be able to test all features in order to properly advise customers.

If you have a Physical Machine where (e.g.) a Network share from a NAS is mapped to the machine Backup of physical machine (or physical machine on file layer) should allow to include this folder (or subfolders) within the backup

It would be great if I backup a physical machine to exclude different files or folders (e.g. temp or downloads,...) which aren't necesary for a restore of the physical machine. If I do a file level backup I'm not sure if this can be used for disaster recovery. I would like to create a disaster recovery flash or iso for the physical machine but without the mentioned files or folders, so that i can do a quicker restore (in case of disaster)

Do we know anything about this as of today? Because we are at this exact point, and it has already been 6 months since the last post.

Thank you for the clarification. In this case a list of necessary permissions is present on our website, and it contains administrative-level permissions. https://helpcenter.nakivo.com/User-Guide/Content/Deployment/System-Requirements/Supported-Platforms.htm#Physical Our QA team hasn't specifically tested which permissions can be safely removed, so we don't have official guidance on a minimal permission set at this time. That said, you're welcome to test this in your own environment — remove permissions gradually and verify that your backup jobs continue to run as expected. If everything works after removing certain permissions, it should be safe to keep that configuration. One thing worth keeping in mind: if you update NAKIVO or the transporter on the physical machine in the future, additional permissions may be required for the update process itself. Day-to-day job execution generally needs fewer permissions than installation or upgrade operations, so it's worth re-checking after any update. At the moment, NAKIVO does offer an option to disable certain types of errors and warnings directly in the web UI. However, please keep in mind that doing so would suppress all events of that type — meaning important notifications could potentially be missed alongside the ones you want to filter out. To proceed, please do the following: 1. Take screenshot of the error(s)/warning(s) that need to be skipped 2. Generate and send us support bundle, attaching above screenshot(s) 3. We will check internal event number and send you steps how to skip it We would be happy to submit a feature request to our Product Team on your behalf to improve how errors and warnings are handled for physical machines—for example, by introducing more granular filtering, scheduled reporting, or other options that give you better control without risking missed critical alerts.

Okay, I think we're misunderstanding each other. I've already added the workstations to the Nakivo console. I used an account with domain-level administrator privileges for this. Now I need to limit this account to communication between the Nakivo server and the workstations. Thanks for the tip that the account must have "Log on as a batch job" permissions. My question was more about best practices for configuring such an account for communication between the Nakivo server and a workstation running the "transporter" backup agent. Is there any way to prevent Nakivo from treating workstation unavailability as a problem? The point is that workstations are only available during office hours on workdays. And the console shows hundreds of host unavailability issues after the weekend. While this is generally correct, it's a bit irritating and blurs the picture of the network situation?

Hi @zsere86, Please double-check that all requirements for adding a physical machine from the following article are met: https://helpcenter.nakivo.com/User-Guide/Content/Deployment/System-Requirements/Supported-Platforms.htm#Physical We suggest double-checking that the following permission is available for the user: "Log on as a batch job". Then, try to add one of the physical machines to the NAKIVO inventory and let us know the result. In case some error is still present, please do the following: - For test purposes, try to use the local (built-in) administrator account - Send us a screenshot of the error - Generate a support bundle and send it to us, we will check the details then.

I'm currently implementing NAKIVO Backup & Replication for Physical Workstations on Windows. I'm looking for a user configuration solution for installing and managing the NAKIVO agent on a Windows workstation. I've implemented a solution that involves creating a "nakivo" account in the Active Directory domain with minimal privileges and a 25-character password based on a generator consisting of lowercase and uppercase letters, numbers, and special characters. Cyclic password changes have been disabled in accordance with the policy for this account. Using Group Policy, I've granted local administrator privileges on workstations for this account and disabled the ability to log in via Terminal Services and locally. Is there another configuration option based on a more secure solution, such as a gMSA account?

Are they indipendent to VM Versionon proxmo: example: i run proxmox 9.11 my vm are configured on 9.1 hardware version could this cause issue? thank you in advance, best regards.

Hi @opk.giandomenico, You are correct, NAKIVO uses QEMU Guest Agent and VSS integration to perform quiescing and ensure application-consistent backups on Proxmox. Note that this feature requires the latest version of the QEMU Guest Agent to be installed and running and VSS to be properly configured on all source VMs.

Hello, i'm setting up a backup for active directory dc VM Usually on other Backup Solution for application aware processing an admin account is needed for the aware application to work. But seems that there's no need on nakivo because the agent does all the work. Is this configuration correct or i'm missing something? Best regards

Hi @Gabriele Maoret, This feature is not currently planned or in development on our roadmap at this time.

Would it be possible to integrate SSL certificate generation and renewal into the web interface using Le's Encrypt? Could you let us know if this is a planned/under development feature?

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Dear @opk.giandomenico, To assist you with your request, we kindly ask you to send us a support bundle. It contains log files and system information that will help us identify the problem and provide a resolution. Please make sure to enable the option "include main database" during the bundle creation and specify your ticket ID #393970. The instructions on how to generate and send a support bundle can be found in the NAKIVO Help Center at the following link: https://helpcenter.nakivo.com/User-Guide/Content/Settings/Support-Bundles.htm

Hello, i've updated Nakivo from 11.1 to .2 everything has been completed successfully without any errors. I've tried to start a backup jobs and noticed that transporters hasn't been updated, they are still at the previous version. Now, i've rolled back with snapshot to a previous versione, but how this could be fixed ?

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Thanks!! Work's like a charm

Please try to update NAKIVO Backup & Replication with the instruction "Updating Manually on Synology NAS, DSM 7": https://helpcenter.nakivo.com/Knowledge-Base/Content/Installation-and-Deployment-Issues/Updating-Manually-on-Synology-NAS.html

We're having trouble installing it on a Synology NAS running DSM 7. The Transporter installer package published in the Synology Package Center is version ‘11.1.0.98634-70025’, and if we try to manually install the package, we get an error indicating that it is not compatible. However, it did work with DSM 6, but not with DSM 7. Synology device model: RS2423+ CPU version: AMD Ryzen V1780B RAM: 8 GB DDR4 ECC UDIMM

The transporter package published on SYNOLOGY package center remains on version '11.1.0.98634-70025'. We are trying to install the package manually but get 'not supported' errors on DSM7.

We have created a feature request for our product team based in your suggestion. Thank you for your input!