Eliminating Warnings

If Veeam Backup & Replication encounters an issue while verifying the connection to the specified Veeam Backup for AWS appliance, you may get one of the following warnings.

Version Compatibility Alert

If you try to add to the backup infrastructure an appliance that runs a version of Veeam Backup for AWS that is not compatible with the version of Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam Backup & Replication will display a warning notifying that the appliance must be upgraded. To eliminate the warning, click Yes. Veeam Backup & Replication will automatically upgrade the appliance to the necessary version.

During upgrade to version 6a, Veeam Backup & Replication will verify whether the IAM user whose one-time access keys are used to connect to the appliance has sufficient permissions to upgrade the appliance. If some permissions are missing, you will receive a warning.

You can manually grant missing permissions to the IAM user using AWS or instruct Veeam Backup & Replication to do it:

• If you want to grant the missing permissions manually, do the following:

1. Click Copy permissions to Clipboard.

Note that the list of copied permissions will contain all the permissions required to perform the upgrade operation, not the list of missing permissions.

2. In AWS, create an IAM policy with the missing permissions and attach the policy to the IAM user whose permissions are used to connect to the appliance.

To learn how to create IAM policies, see the Veeam Backup for AWS User Guide, section Appendix B. Creating IAM Policies in AWS.

3. Back to the Veeam Backup & Replication console, click Proceed.

• If you want to instruct Veeam Backup & Replication to grant the missing permissions automatically, click Grant and provide one-time access keys of an IAM user that is authorized to grant IAM permissions in the opened window. Note that the specified user must belong to the same AWS account in which the Veeam Backup for AWS appliance is deployed.

Veeam Backup & Replication will create an IAM policy with missing permissions and attach the policy to the IAM user whose permissions are used to connect to the appliance.

Certificate Security Alert

When you add a Veeam Backup for AWS appliance to the backup infrastructure, Veeam Backup & Replication saves in the configuration database a thumbprint of the TLS certificate installed on the appliance. When Veeam Backup & Replication connects to the appliance, it uses the saved thumbprint to verify the appliance identity and to avoid the man-in-the-middle attack. For details on managing TLS certificates, see the Veeam Backup for AWS User Guide, section TLS Certificates.

If the certificate installed on the Veeam Backup for AWS appliance is not trusted, Veeam Backup & Replication will display a warning notifying that secure connection cannot be guaranteed. You can view the certificate and click Continue — in this case, Veeam Backup & Replication will remember the certificate thumbprint and will further trust the certificate when connecting to the appliance. Otherwise, you will not be able to proceed with the wizard.