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This article provides information about protecting the Veeam Backup & Replication Configuration.
This information answers the common question, "How do I back up the Veeam Server?" To which the answer is: "Do not back up the backup server configuration using backup jobs in Veeam Backup & Replication." Instead, users are encouraged to focus on protecting the configuration of the software through the use of Configuration Backup. In a situation where a Veeam Backup Server is lost, a new machine should be created, Veeam Backup & Replication installed, and a Configuration Restore performed to restore all the settings from the old Veeam Backup Server into that new deployment. Review the rest of this article to learn more!
To protect the Veeam Backup & Replication configuration, use Configuration Backup, which is built-in and enabled by default. The default configuration for Configuration Backup is to occur once a day at 10 AM, writing to the Default Backup Repository. After you create the first Repository, Veeam Backup & Replication will prompt you to ask if you'd like to change the Configuration Backup to use that new Repository.
Do not back up the backup server configuration using backup jobs in Veeam Backup & Replication. Veeam Backup & Replication uses snapshots during VM backup and replication jobs, and snapshot creation and removal may freeze the Veeam Backup Server VM causing:
For this reason, you must always use the configuration backup functionality to back up and restore the configuration of the backup server.
Other than the built-in Configuration Backup job, no other type of backup or replication job should be used to back up the Veeam Backup & Replication server. In addition to the potential impacts described in the User Guide, the following should be considered:
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