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Changed Veeam B&R Server Off Domain - Endpoint Backups?

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After getting an incident of Cryptowall and our Veeam server is a member of our domain I read several blogs/white papers on how it may be better to remove your Veeam B&R server from your domain and protect your backup data.

I did this yesterday and all my backups and replication worked a treat.

The one thing I forgot about was my Endpoint backup.

I redid the credentials for the backup (3TB file server) but noticed this morning it was still running.

On inspection, when Endpoint uses Veeam Repositories as its storage it creates a folder on the Veeam Repository to store your Endpoint backups in the form of <domain\username>.

Of course, I now have a new folder called <localveeamserver\localaccount> and this now holds the Endpoint backup which I had to stop half way.

Can I delete the contents of the new folder that has last nights failed backup (well not failed but it was just going to be a full) and copy in from my <domain\username> that is now no longer going to be used to carry on the backup chain? And if I do that will Restores work?
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Hello Nick,

You can move the existing backup files (and delete the failed ones) to any location, reconfigure the Endpoint’s job and hit rescan on the repository – VEB backups should appear under Disk (Imported) node. Normally, next job run should map the existing backup files and continue the backup chain automatically.
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Re: Changed Veeam B&R Server Off Domain - Endpoint Backups?

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Thanks Dima...

Done as you suggested and all is ok, tested a restore and it was fine.
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I was a bit worried that credential change may affect the expected behavior, so thanks for updating the thread. Glad you - nailed it!
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Backups ran tonight as incrementals so all is good, handy for others to know that is all you need to do if you want to take your Veeam B&R Server off the domain.
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Nick,

Awesome - thanks again!
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