Upgrading Appliances

Starting from Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure version 5a, you can upgrade backup appliances from the Veeam Backup & Replication console only. Upgrade to Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure version 7.0 is supported from Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure version 3.0 or later. To upgrade from an earlier version, you must first perform upgrade to Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure version 3.0 or later as described in section Installing Updates.

Important

Before you install a product update, make sure that all backup policies are both disabled and stopped, and no restore tasks are currently executing. Otherwise, the update process will interrupt the running activities, which may result in data loss.

To upgrade the backup appliance, do the following:

Install Microsoft Azure Plug-in for Veeam Backup & Replication as described in section Deployment.

If you do not have a valid Veeam Backup & Replication license, you can download a 30-day trial version of the product.

Add the backup appliance to the Veeam Backup & Replication infrastructure as described in section Connecting to Existing Appliances.

When connecting to the backup appliance, Veeam Backup & Replication will display a warning notifying you that the appliance must be upgraded. Acknowledge the warning to allow Veeam Backup & Replication to automatically upgrade the appliance to the necessary version.

Note

When you add the backup appliance to the Veeam Backup & Replication infrastructure, the license installed on the appliance becomes invalid. Protected instances start consuming license units from the license installed on the Veeam Backup & Replication server. However, as soon as you remove the backup appliance from the Veeam Backup & Replication infrastructure, Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure will continue using the license that had been used before you added the backup appliance to the Veeam Backup & Replication infrastructure.

For more information on licensing scenarios, see Licensing.

[Applies only if the backup appliance has not been upgraded at step 2] Upgrade the appliance as described in section Updating Appliances Using Console.
After the upgrade process completes, you can remove the backup appliance from the Veeam Backup & Replication infrastructure, as described in section Removing Appliances, if you do not plan to further manage this appliance from the Veeam Backup & Replication console.

Make sure to remove the appliance from the Veeam Backup & Replication infrastructure before you uninstall Veeam Backup & Replication. Otherwise, Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure will not be able to perform backup and restore operations due to the licensing issues.

If you remove the backup appliance from the backup infrastructure, you will no longer be able to create backups of virtual network configurations and Cosmos DB accounts. For more information, see Integration with Veeam Backup & Replication.

Note

When you upgrade to Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure version 7.0 from Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure version 5.0 or earlier, the backup appliance operating system is updated to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and the configuration database is upgraded to PostgreSQL 15.5. For more information on the upgrade process, see Upgrading to Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure 7.0 from Version 5.0 or Earlier.