Last week, a friend in the group chat shouted out: Downloaded the Veeam V13 ISO, but the upgrade failed.
I asked him: Which one did you download?
He said: The Veeam Data Platform Premium ISO, the 20 GB one.
I sighed.
You fell into the trap.
The changes in V13 caught many people off guard.
Before, when upgrading Veeam, you could use any ISO to upgrade the VBR server.
3 AM. Another sleepless night in the data center.
Alerts flash across the screen while your phone buzzes with messages from business teams. It’s been three hours of constant bombardment.
“When will the financial system be back online?” “We’re going to miss this month’s KPIs!” “Why is IT always having problems?”
As you type commands, you’re searching for needles in haystacks of system logs. This is the third time this month you’ve been fighting fires in the dead of night.
It’s 2 AM. Your backup job has failed again.
The screen displays the error “Failed to create snapshot” and your mind goes blank. If you’re a Veeam administrator, you’ve been here before.
The familiar troubleshooting marathon begins:
Six hours later, you finally solve it. A simple permission configuration issue.
First, I must thank my colleague Zhang Yuan. The design concept for this solution actually originated from his idea of automatically controlling network firewalls through Palo Alto devices, which he shared internally several years ago. This article simply reproduces his excellent design using zero-cost OpenWRT.
Remember that 2019 article about ransomware attacks?
At that time, I emphasized the importance of data isolation. Ransomware is becoming increasingly intelligent—they no longer just encrypt production data, but also destroy backup servers, delete backup catalogs, and even attack dedicated storage devices.
In our previous article, we set up an AI terminal environment with Claude Code + GLM-4.6. Today, I want to show you a revolutionary way of working: zero-code control of your Veeam Backup & Replication server through Veeam RestAPI. Don’t be intimidated by terms like API - in today’s content, you won’t need to write a single line of code to make Claude Code (hereafter CC) your VBR operations assistant! Let CC bring you a completely different data protection experience.
Vibe coding has been incredibly popular lately, with Claude Code and Codex competing fiercely. I’m grateful for these excellent AI tools that bring entirely new capabilities and perspectives to our data protection and security industry. Starting with this series, I want to share how these AI tools can provide different capabilities for our data protection workflows, giving you an up-close look at the changes AI is bringing to our industry.
