Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows • Re: Veeam Agent for Windows -> Synology NAS : Does each machine need it´s own Share?

Hi Toby, welcome to the forums.

Can you confirm if the agents are managed by multiple backup servers as was discussed in the topic you linked?

The "folder_1" scenario described in the other topic and that your colleague is facing can have a variety of issues, but the recommendation from that thread was to account for a situation where multiple VBR servers are writing to the same NAS share, as that would fall foul of the restriction here:

Consider the following:

Do not configure multiple backup repositories pointing to the same location or using the same path.
Do not configure multiple backup repositories with "nested" paths (when one repository path is a sub-path of another repository), for example:

/mnt/repo/backups/

/mnt/repo/backups/production/

So a lot of it depends on your setup, and if you are using the same share between multiple VBRs, then yes dedicated folders underneath root for each VBR will be required.

It would be best to open a Support Case for your colleague's issue and let Support review the behavior. As mentioned before, there can be a few reasons why this happens but the mechanism that causes the folder_1 behavior happens when Veeam wants to make a new folder for backup but a folder with the same name already exists.

Statistics: Posted by david.domask — Jul 07, 2025 7:57 am

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