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Backup of USB drive

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Hi.
I've installed Veeam Agent on my home PC for testing. I have a USB drive connnected where I store my personal data. With Veeam Agent it appears that its not possible to backup these data, because the GUI allows me only to selected internal systemdrives. Will you make it possible to select USB drives as a backup source sometime soon? :)
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Hello mbjnet,

Thanks for the feedback! VAW does not support external media as a source but we keep tracking this request very attentively.
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Re: Backup of USB drive

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Would be one of the features on my with list as well.
At least file based backups should be possible without any big changes to the Veeam agent, at least according to my technical knowledge ;)
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I also agree that it would be very beneficial for us to include USB storage drives in the Agent backup source selection.
We have one client that has a system that must remain on BackupAssist due to requiring this functionality.

I'd love to have everything consolidated into Veeam, but they won't sign off on an internal drive addition or a virtualization project, so for the foreseeable future the only way we could get off BackupAssist entirely is to have the Agent let us select USB drives for backup.
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Please add usb drive support to VAW.
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Re: Backup of USB drive

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Thanks for your feedback folks - we keep tracking this request very attentively.
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I would be interested in the ability to backup a source USB drive as well.
Thanks!
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Also would really like this feature, I have a big raid 1 usb drive where I keep some not so critical data that I would like to backup
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Re: Backup of USB drive

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Hello and welcome to the community Billie.

Can you please clarify, if it’s enough for your case to take a one-time full backup of your USB device or you would like this data to be included in the regular backup chain? Thanks.
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Re: Backup of USB drive

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+1
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Thank you!

I would prefer scheduled, I'm using task scheduler and robocopy for now
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I am amazed "local" usb drives cannot be backed up by veeam endpoint at all. Please incorporate this asap...
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Re: Backup of USB drive

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Thanks for your feedback. This functionality is planned.
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Re: Backup of USB drive

Post by Billie » 1 person likes this post

Thanks, this is great news!
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Re: Backup of USB drive

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This feature has been planned for several years now, and has yet to be implemented. It is still a deal breaker for me in using this product. I have to maintain an entire separate Symantec BackupExec server on a remote server that shares out space on USB direct attached storage devices. I cant back this server up using Veeam.

Here are the old threads:

veeam-agent-for-windows-f33/backup-usb- ... 27944.html
veeam-agent-for-windows-f33/3tb-offsite ... 29718.html
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[MERGED] Feature request : Backup USB drive

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Hello,

For the moment we can't backup the data of usb drive.
I would like to know if you work on it at this moment. And do have a release date of this function ?

Have a good day !
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Re: Feature request : Backup USB drive

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Hello ENVOLiiS and welcome to the community!

It will be added in the future version of the Agent, but I cannot give you any ETA at the moment.
Thank you for the feature request!
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Re: Backup of USB drive

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Well,
I saw the same answer 2 years ago sooooooo, I don't know what I have to think about this answer.
Maybe I will know it in 2 years.
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Re: Backup of USB drive

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Ok, it's time to allow backups of USB drives... With the size of drives available now, plus the speed of USB 3.1 ports, it's rather ridiculous to ignore what's become major add-on storage for consumers and small businesses.

As it is, I guess I can just continue having my other-wise Veeam using customers back them up with Carbonite.
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Re: Backup of USB drive

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Steve, it is already on our roadmap and will be added in a future update or version of the agent.
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Re: Backup of USB drive

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Some news about this feature ?
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Re: Backup of USB drive

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Hi ENVOLiiS,

Thank you for pushing this request.
We cannot share any news prior to official announcement.
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Re: Backup of USB drive

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Just made this account so I could voice my request for this feature too. It looks like there hasn't been a version of the agent released since December so we have got to be getting close. Here's hoping it won't be too much longer for this feature as we also have a server setup to archive important data to a USB drive.

Has anyone tried to try and make an external USB drive show up as an internal drive as a work around? I'm sure I don't want to try this with anything very critical, but if I can easily copy the data off the drive (manually backup the drive), and then attempt changing the RMB (removable media bit), it might be worth it to simplify our backup environment, but only if that's what Veeam is looking at. Link below explaining the process. Note: To be clear, I do not recommend doing this at all.
http://woshub.com/removable-usb-flash-d ... windows-7/
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Re: Backup of USB drive

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Hello and welcome Corey.

Thank you for your post! For now I can say that this feature is planned but I cannot provide any details yet.
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Re: Backup of USB drive

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Just adding another +1 here, very surprised that I can't include a USB HDD or USB SSD in a backup :( not sure why they are treated differently to HDDs or SSDs on a SATA interface.
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Re: Backup of USB drive

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sdet00 wrote: not sure why they are treated differently to HDDs or SSDs on a SATA interface.
Our current backup engine works perfectly with devices constantly connected to host. Removable media is completely different story when it comes to backup job logic, but, as I stated above, we are working on it :wink:
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Re: Backup of USB drive

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Backup up USB Storage or other Drives should always be possible.
At least anything what has a Drive Letter.
Ideally every partition or disk based, too.
And you should be able to write onto/repo/copy, etc.

Sometimes you can add cheap storage hooking some usb drives.
or you can substitute tapes by ssd drives.
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Re: Backup of USB drive

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Seems weird that a backup product can't backup files on external media, even in file-only mode. Got the trial workstation license and found it can't backup an external drive I want backed up periodically because it visits many machines (and storing the data on a server is not possible due to this data's use case).
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