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Veeam Agent Considers Windows Storage Spaces Drive Internal

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I have 2 external USB drives that I combined into a single Windows Storage Space drive, for redundency. However, Veeam Agent sees the Storage Spaces drive as an internal drive, and will not let me set it as a backup location. Is this a known issue? Is there a way around it?

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Anyone have a solution for this?
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Hello Chris,

Sorry for the delay. You were saying that after configuring storage spaces you can’t select it as removable storage but do you see it as local drives? Thanks.
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That is correct, Veeam Agent says "Unable to perform entire computer backup to an internal disk". It currently shows up as my E: drive.
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Windows doesn't let Removable Disks become part of the storage spaces pool. For some reason your system thinks your Removable Disks are Internal Disks.
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That is incorrect, my storage space is constructed of two USB drives.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/hel ... age-spaces
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Once your external hard drives are added to the storage spaces pool they become part of the virtual hard drive. The virtual hard drive is not a removable drive.
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That sounds right. Whenever storage spaces drive is configured it you should see the volume as internal device (virtual disk).
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Ok, so there is not currently a way to use Veeam Agent with a Storage Spaces device setup, correct?
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Christopher,

It should work as local storage. You were saying that you can see the volume created via storage spaces as a local volume, is that correct or I am missing something?
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That is correct, it shows up as local storage. However, the Agent will not allow me to run in "Entire Computer" backup mode against local storage. Thus, I am not able to use a Windows Storage Space as a backup target in "Entire Computer" mode, which is what I was hoping to accomplish.
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Understood, thanks! There is a hack for that - choose volume level backup instead and select all volumes.
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Ok, thank you.
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