Bug Report: CreateJob storageOptimization Auto

[Dossing]

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... /CreateJob

When creating a job with the REST API, there is supposely an option to use "auto" on the storageOptimization.
It should be valid Enum: "Auto" "LocalTargetLarge" "LocalTarget" "LANTarget" "WANTarget" "LocalTargetLarge8192" "LocalTargetLarge4096"
In other words it should somehow figure a block size by using an auto function.
You can create jobs with "storageOptimization": "Auto" :

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"storage": {
    "advancedSettings": {
        "storageData": {
            "storageOptimization": "Auto"
        }
    }
}

When using the GUI, there isn't really an option to choose an "auto" option:



The created job fails with an error:

[ronnmartin61]

"Auto" seems to work correctly in my lab. Assuming you chopped the "storage" JSON down in your post to illustrate this particular setting? If not you're missing some required parameters. Here is my working snippet -

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                'storage': {
                        'backupRepositoryID': backupRepo,
                        'backupProxies' : {
                                'autoselection': True
                        },
                        'retentionPolicy': {
                                'type': 'Days',
                                'quantity': 8
                        },
                        'advancedSettings': {
                                'backupModeType': 'Incremental',
                                'storageData': {
                                        'excludeSwapFileBlocks': True,
                                        'storageOptimization': 'Auto'
                                }
                        }
                },

[Dossing]

Yes i cut it down to now cause too much confusion.
This is the full storage section which fails when running a backup:

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    "storage"         = @{
        "backupRepositoryId" = "$repoid"
        "backupProxies"      = @{
            "autoSelection" = "true"
        }
        "retentionPolicy"    = @{
            "type"     = "Days"
            "quantity" = "31"
        }
        "gfsPolicy"          = @{
            "isEnabled" = "true"
            "weekly"    = @{
                "isEnabled"            = "true"
                "keepForNumberOfWeeks" = "4"
                "desiredTime"          = "saturday"
            }
            "monthly"   = @{
                "isEnabled"             = "true"
                "keepForNumberOfMonths" = "3"
                "desiredTime"           = "First"
            }
            "yearly"    = @{
                "isEnabled"            = "true"
                "keepForNumberOfYears" = "1"
                "desiredTime"          = "January"
            }
        }
        "advancedSettings"   = @{
            "backupModeType"  = "Incremental"
            "synthenticFulls" = @{
                "isEnabled" = "true"
                "days"      = @(
                    "saturday"
                )
            }
            "backupHealth"    = @{
                "isEnabled" = "true"
                "weekly"    = @{
                    "isEnabled" = "true"
                    "days"      = @(
                        "friday"
                    )
                }
                "monthly"   = @{
                    "isEnabled" = "false"
                }
            }
            "storageData"     = @{
                "enableInlineDataDedup"    = "true"
                "excludeSwapFileBlocks"    = "true"
                "excludeDeletedFileBlocks" = "true"
                "compressionLevel"         = "Auto"
                "storageOptimization"      = "Auto"
                "encryption"               = @{
                    "isEnabled"                  = "true"
                    "encryptionPasswordIdOrNull" = "$encryptionkeyid"
                }
            }
        }
    }
    

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This is Build: 11.0.1.1261 P20220302

[ronnmartin61]

My apologies as I did not read your original post correctly. I thought the issue was regarding job creation. Yes I'm able to duplicate your results in my lab when the job is run -

https://www.dropbox.com/s/93h5unrcxc8l0 ... r.PNG?dl=0

even though everything looks correct in the job settings -

https://www.dropbox.com/s/bip0s8vfi1s98 ... s.PNG?dl=0

Yes I would agree this appears to be some sort of bug...

[oleg.feoktistov]

It is a bug. Looks like Auto value was added as a part of some options from backend, which are not supported anymore or were used for autotests. I see the same with compressionLevel: Auto option. We will remove these values in v12 as a part of bugfix. Meanwhile, please use other available values. Thanks!