Backup copy job number of retries

[danielchung]

I would like to increase the number of retires in backup copy job, anyone knows how to do it?

[Vitaliy S.]

Hi Daniel,

What number of retries would you like to increase? The ones that happen on building synthetic full or a backup copy attempt retry?

Thanks!

[danielchung]

The backup copy attempt retry.

[Vitaliy S.]

Daniel,

Then please specify this reg key under main Veeam backup registry hive:

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BackupCopyMaxEntryBuildRetries  REG_DWORD  5

BTW, why do you want to increase the default value? Do you see many failed attempts to retrieve VM data?

Thanks!

[danielchung]

Should I put this value in "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Veeam\Veeam Backup and Replication" ?

Yes, coz I'm transferring data over WAN which is slow and not stable recently.

[danielchung]

Tried putting the reg value of 20 under "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Veeam\Veeam Backup and Replication" or "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Veeam\Veeam Backup and Replication", the maximum number of retries remain 5. I have also restarted the veeam backup service, didn't help.

[Vitaliy S.]

Yes, you should put the key under this registry hive:

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HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Veeam\Veeam Backup and Replication

BTW, it seems like I've given you the wrong key, my bad. Please use this one:

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BackupSyncMaxRetriesPerOib

[ntw]

Another use case is resuming the copy job after the source server reboots overnight for Windows Updates installation during a copy job's run.

[Shestakov]

Another use case is resuming the copy job after the source server reboots overnight for Windows Updates installation during a copy job's run.

In this case you need just one retry, so no need to change the default value.

I'm transferring data over WAN which is slow and not stable recently.

I`d suggest to use WAN Acceleration along with backup copy jobs for faster and more reliable retry.

[davidhodges86]

Hi,

We have a Backup Copy job to rotated USB disks. Over the weekend the disk wasn't attached but the copy job kept retrying so I ended up with about 100 failure emails.

Does anyone know if it's possible to set a retry limit on a copy job?

David

[Dima P.]

Hello David,

Try the suggested registry key and let us know if that works for your environment! Cheers!