Veeam vackup validator

[sirhideo]

Hi, not sure if this is officially support but I would like to ask how can I enable veeam.backup.validator to retrieve replica metadata from a remote repository? During validation process of a replication job it keeps prompting unable to read metadata ...

Thanks!

[veremin]

Veeam Backup Validator works with backup files, not replica metadata. Can you post the exact issue you have while working with replication jobs? Thanks.

[sirhideo]

Error occurs below once I simply run the command - veeam.backup.validator.exe /backup:"Replication_job"

Validating VM...
VM Name: VM1
Creation Time: 8/28/2015
Backup type: snapshot
Platform: VMware
OS Name: Microsoft Windows Server 2012 (64-bit)
Skipping VM "VM1": Unable to read metadata

While the metadata from the above replication job setting has been re-directed onto a networked repository (192.168.x.x E:\metadata) instead of veeam default repository "C:\backup". I think this is causing issue for validator not able to read it?

For backup jobs, i.e. vbk or vrb the validator works perfectly.

[veremin]

As I've said, Backup Validator isn't supposed to validate replica metadata. Thus, the failures. Thanks.