Veeam 9.0 Free backup/restore to QNAP TVS-EC2480U?

[bewales]

Hi everyone.

This area is not my expertise, so i apoligise in advance if this topic has been covered or this is a simple fix.

I have just installed a new QNAP TVS-EC2480U with 8x 4TB hard disks configured running RAID 6 to backup my VM farm consisting of 8x ESXi 5.5 hosts running approx 100 VM's to just get a saftey backup of the VM's off our SAN using Veeam 9.0 backup Free Edition. All data form the servers are backed up to tape.

I installed a 2012 R2 Server with the Free version of Veam 9.0 and mapped a drive back to a volume on the QNAP server. My issue is though, on the free version I cannot see how to add the QNAP as a backup repository, i did manage to perform a backup by entering the network path and credentials for access to the volume on the QNAP and this worked fine, and this is how i have done it in the past using older verions of Veeam. But, when it come to me doing a test a restore, I cannot access the QNAP in anyway, the restore wizard will not allow me to see the mapped drive to the QNAP server? The only way i could successfully restore was to copy the vm backup to the C: of the 2102 r2 server that has Veeam installed?

Does anybody know if you simply cannot add the QNAP as a backup/restore repository in the Free version, as it looks simple in the Enterprise version, but i cannot see the options in the free version.

Many Thanks in advance for any help received.

[veremin]

What if you input UNC path in backup file string or browse the share, using Windows Explorer, and just double click on a .vbk file? Thanks.

[bewales]

Hi v.Eremin, thanks for your reply, I did try (the dbl click from mapped drive in explorer) this and I get and error, I will retry this now and post the results, as i cannot remember what the error message said. Thank you

[bewales]

Here is the text from the error:

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Dir Failed, storageFileName V:\Backup******

Exception of type
'Veeam.Backup.AgentProvider.AgentClosedException' was thrown

Thank you...

[veremin]

Honestly I've never encountered this error before, so it might be worth reaching our support team directly (yep, even owners of free products are eligible for support). Thanks.

[foggy]

My issue is though, on the free version I cannot see how to add the QNAP as a backup repository

In Veeam Backup Free Edition, you cannot configure backup proxies and backup repositories and point a VeeamZIP job to them.

[Corelianer]

I had the same issue. I fixed it the following way:
1. View, Full functionality (advanced)
2. Import Backup browse to Network Share
3. Restore the VM. It just seems that the free functionality causes the bug.

[foggy]

Pascal, thanks for the heads up, we'll verify the behavior.

[oliverL]

How do you expose the QNAP-Volume to the Windows Server? SMB, NFS or iSCSI?