Veeam Backup & Replication • Re: Quiescence : Unable to find script file

I'm back to my own party, very late! ... And I came with a solution!

After being sure that port 445 is open on Guest OS firewall being processed by Veeam BR, and after ensuring the Guest OS credentials are stored in Veeam BR in the form of HOST\username, pre-freeze and post-thaw scripts still were not found, altough being present on the Guest OS!

I discovered that the scripts paths defined in the Application-Aware section of the Job are... relative to the Veeam Backup Server itself, not relative to the Guest OS!
These scripts will be copied from the VBR server to the Guest OS in a temporary place during the backup or replication process.

So I went with the following solution:

• On the Veeam Server create pre-freeze and post-thaw scripts for each of the processed VM's, for example imagine VBR have to process 3 VM's : GUEST-001, GUEST-002, and GUEST-003, just create :
  • c:\windows\vbr-script-GUEST-001-pre-freeze.bat
  • c:\windows\vbr-script-GUEST-001-post-thaw.bat
  • c:\windows\vbr-script-GUEST-002-pre-freeze.bat
  • c:\windows\vbr-script-GUEST-002-post-thaw.bat
  • c:\windows\vbr-script-GUEST-003-post-thaw.bat
  • c:\windows\vbr-script-GUEST-003-pre-freeze.bat

• Also, ensure that these scripts are present in c:\windows\ of the Guest OS, just in case.

And that's it! Jobs executed with the GREEN SUCCESS, and not with the YELLOW WARNING anymore!

Statistics: Posted by AlexLaforge — Dec 29, 2023 4:10 am

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