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Quick Backup of a VM associated to multiple Backup jobs

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Last updated 3 years ago

I had to do a quick backup of a VM today.

OK, no problem I thought and hit the Quick backup menue topic for this VM in the inventory tab.

The job started and I saw some disk exclusion in the job log.

Mhh… I wanted a quick backup of the whole machine.

Then I saw that another job than I had expected was started for the quick backup.

OK, this job backups indeed on disk of the VM only….

Then I recognized that this VM is associated to several backup jobs. One which backups the whole VM, one to backup one VMDK with DB Backups and on job to backup one VMDK with log backups.

It’s an older setup with a database without application aware backup.

So, it seems that the quick backup executes the backup job which was executed last for the VM before the quick backup is started….

And you have no choice to tell the quick backup which job you want to use…

Am I missing something here? Is it a bug or a feature????

Update 1:

Yes, this behavour is intended and described in the help center.

But I think think this is not the way it should work. I will write a feature request in the Veeam forums and post the link to is here. If you support it, give the request a +1 in the forum and/or write a comment with your use case.

Quick Backup - User Guide for VMware vSphere (veeam.com)