Fortunately, this is very simple and easy. After this happens, you have to manually tell Veeam to re-scan the backup infrastructure in order to clear the error. It seems that whenever Veeam is unable to access the file share used in the Backup Infrastructure setting, it sets a flag or an error state in Veeam to indicate that the backup location is not available.
RESTORE VEEAM BACKUP HOW TO
I submitted a support case to Veeam and spoke with a support engineer who showed me how to resolve this error. So clearly the backup files were accessible and there wasn't really an issue. I was able to click on OK to this error message, complete the restore wizard, and successfully restore my VM. I could access the network share on my NAS file server and browse the files without issue. So I knew that the backup files were available and were accessible. When I first saw this message I was concerned there was a problem, but it didn't make sense because Veeam was obviously able to see the backup files and it even let me choose which restore point I wanted. Veeam Error: Backup files are unavailable I recently tried to restore a VM, and after I selected the VM to restore and chose a restore point, I received this error message. Normally, this isn't a big deal, but I found one situation where this results in a subsequent error message. If I shut down my Synology NAS first, and Veeam detects that the file server is not accessible, it may log a warning or error.
But sometimes if I wrap up my day early, I may shut down all of my servers and my desktop at, say, 8pm.
Since I don't need my servers running 24x7, I have them scheduled to shutdown in the evening, and then automatically turn on in the morning. I haven't noticed those messages lately, so I'm not sure if I just turned them off, or if I haven't been paying attention to them. With a prior version, if Veeam was running but my file server was shut down, I would get error notifications indicating that it couldn't access the file server-even though backups were not scheduled to run.
One quirk I have noticed with Veeam is that it seems to be very sensitive to any loss of connectivity with the backup infrastructure. I've used it for several years now to backup my Hyper-V virtual machines to a Synology NAS, and it has been a huge improvement over the low-tech script based VM backups I was suffering with previously. I'm a huge fan of the Veeam Backup and Replication product.