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?
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
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.
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.
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.
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 ?
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.
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/
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.
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
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.
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).
not sure why they are treated differently to HDDs or SSDs on a SATA interface.