But when I enabled Veeam Backup Copy job to send a backup copy off-site for our physical PCs, I had an error regarding duplicated UUID. We use the free version of Veeam agent for Windows, backup are sent to a Veeam repository (v 9.5 u3a).Īt first, everything looked fine. I've been facing a UUID duplication issue too.
Point is, if this solution can be cover by group policy or similar.but thats different story how to handle those registries
You can use some online generator for it ( ) or put some your own strings there.Ĥ) Rescan protection group and you are deployed nowīTW: obviously it´s still an workaround and Veeam is suggesting to update BIOS UUID together with vendor since UUID duplication could lead not only into Veeam agent issues. This is the key enabling Veeam failover logic.ģ) Then a unique ID should be assigned manually on each Agent station.Īnother Veeam registry should be added on each host for it:Ĭustom UUID should correspond with the standard UUID format rules, brackets are required.
We had also some office PCs affected, but this is caused due to the fact, that they have corrupted UUID (like empty FFFFFF-FFFF-FFF.) and therefore sometimes can be also an issue.ġ)ğirst of all, this procedure is working only with an U3a updateĢ) To ‘EnableSystemUuidFailover’ key should be added on each Veeam Agent host with non-unique ID. We have also some set of tools from technician, which will provide us with a possibility to change UUID, but still it´s a "hardware layer" change and this is something, which is really not good idea to do.according to the fact, that sometimes its 24/7 production machines and we are not able to find suitable maintenance window to do a change.
Yes, you are right that those duplications are mainly on production PCs and terminals.because it seems to us, that manufacturer is sending machines with cloned BIOS. I have had this issue at industrial customers on industrial workstations (panel PC, and fanless computer, all AMI BIOS.) it's time consuming and cost a lot to change all bios UUID. On AMI Bios you can use AMIDEWIN tools or DMIEDITOR tools.