Two backup jobs same VMs, archive bit

[Ruiiur.Sys]

I've a forever incremental backup job, but my NAS had some issues and I had to create a new backup job for a temporary location, now my NAS is working again, and I want to continue using the forever incremental backup job, is this possible or did the new backup job (with a full backup) destroy the old backup chain by resetting the Archive bit?

Thanks,
RS

[david.domask]

Hi @Ruiiur.Sys, welcome to the forums.

Do I understand correctly that while the NAS storage used for your Backup Repository was inoperable, you created a 2nd backup job for the same virtual machines to another location?

And the question is can you continue the original job without extra steps?

If I'm understanding your situation correctly, indeed, you can simply enable the original job and it should run an incremental backup. However, depending on how long it has been since the original job ran, the incremental backup may be quite larger than usual (similar even to an Active Full), so please be prepared -- regrettably it won't be possible to predict the size of what is returned by the change block tracking (resilient change tracking for Hyper-V), so I would maybe do the first incremental while you're around to check that space does not become an issue.

Thanks!

[Gostev]

I guess it depends if he's talking about VM backup job or File backup job. Either way, Veeam does not rely on Archive bit in principle, so this is not something to worry about!