Grace Period and License Termination

To ensure a smooth license update and provide sufficient time to install a new license file, Veeam Backup & Replication offers a grace period.

During the grace period, you can perform all types of data protection and disaster recovery operations. However, the license status in the License Information window will appear as Expired (<number> days of grace period remaining). Veeam Backup & Replication will also display a warning message “License key has expired, <number> days of grace period remaining” in properties of jobs that are available only in the paid version of Veeam Backup & Replication, for example: backup job, replication job, VM copy job and so on.

The duration of the grace period is defined by the type of license. For more information, see Types of Licenses.

You must update your license before the end of the grace period. If you do not update the license until the end of the grace period, the following measures will be taken:

• [For trial and NFR licenses] Veeam Backup & Replication will switch to the free operational mode.
• [For full licenses] Functionality available in the Enterprise and Enterprise Plus editions of Veeam Backup & Replication will not be available; VMs will not be processed by existing jobs (jobs will fail with the Error status). However, you will be able to restore VM data from existing backups.