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openSuse Tumbleweed Unable to locate grub-install binary

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Hello,

I have been using the veeam agent on Windows for years without issues.
Now that I switched to linux, I want to setup a full system backup via veeam agent.
The Linux distribution I use is openSuse Tumbleweed slowroll.
I know this is not fully supported by veeam, but Tumbleweed works otherwise best for me.

I installed the veeam Agent for Linux in the nosnap version as described in the user guide, version is v6.3.2.1307.
The job is configured to backup the entire machine with a SMB share as destination.
The backup job starts normal and copies all the data without issue.
At 99% there seems to be an issue with grub:
Unable to locate grub-install binary

Is there something missing on my machine or what else could cause this?

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Backup Framework                                            99%                                                    Status: Failed

                                                                                                                                        

     Summary                              Data

     Duration:           00:07:19         Processed:          93.7 GB (99%)    
     Processing rate:    225.5 MB/s       Read:               93.7 GB          
     Bottleneck:         Source           Transferred:        72.5 GB (1.3x)   

      Time             Action                                                                                                Duration  

      14:42:28         Job Framework started at 2026-06-04 12:42:28 UTC
      14:42:28         Preparing to backup
      14:42:28         Creating volume snapshot                                                                              00:00:00
      14:42:29         Starting full backup to Repository_1
      14:42:30         Backed up nvme0n1 2.5 GB at 832.5 MB/s                                                                00:00:04
      14:42:52         Btrfs subvolume /@/var has been backed up 29.7 GB at 288.6 MB/s                                       00:01:45
      14:44:37         Btrfs subvolume /@/.snapshots has been backed up 154.6 KB at 7.6 MB/s                                 00:00:00
      14:44:37         Btrfs subvolume /@/var/lib/machines has been backed up 0 B at 0 B/s                                   00:00:00
      14:44:37         Btrfs subvolume /@/home has been backed up 53.7 GB at 224.6 MB/s                                      00:04:05
      14:48:42         Btrfs subvolume /@/srv has been backed up 0 B at 0 B/s                                                00:00:00
      14:48:42         Btrfs subvolume /@/.snapshots/45/snapshot has been backed up 7.9 GB at 186.7 MB/s                     00:00:43
      14:49:25         Btrfs subvolume / has been backed up 0 B at 0 B/s                                                     00:00:00
      14:49:25         Btrfs subvolume /@/opt has been backed up 0 B at 0 B/s                                                00:00:00
      14:49:25         Btrfs subvolume /@/root has been backed up 2 MB at 84.1 MB/s                                          00:00:00
      14:49:25         Btrfs subvolume /@ has been backed up 1.2 KB at 120.3 KB/s                                            00:00:00
      14:49:25         Btrfs subvolume /@/usr/local has been backed up 0 B at 0 B/s                                          00:00:00
      14:49:37         Failed to update grub in backup
      14:49:47         [error] Failed to perform backup
      14:49:47         [error] Unable to locate grub-install binary
      14:49:47         [error] Processing finished with errors at 2026-06-04 12:49:47 UTC
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