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Before You Begin

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    Before you add a scale-out backup repository to the backup infrastructure, check the following prerequisites:

    Backup repositories that you plan to add as extents to the scale-out backup repository must be added to the backup infrastructure. For more information, see Adding Backup Repositories.

    Mind the following limitations:

    • The scale-out backup repository functionality is available only in Enterprise and Enterprise Plus editions of Veeam Backup & Replication.

    If you configure a scale-out backup repository and then downgrade to the Standard license, you will not be able to run jobs targeted at the scale-out backup repository. However, you will be able to perform restore from the scale-out backup repository.

    • You cannot use the scale-out backup repository as a target for the following types of jobs:
    • Configuration backup job
    • Replication jobs
    • Endpoint backup jobs
    • You cannot add a backup repository as an extent to the scale-out backup repository if any job of unsupported type is targeted at this backup repository or if the backup repository contains data produced by jobs of unsupported types (for example, replica metadata). To add such backup repository as an extent, you must first target unsupported jobs to another backup repository and remove the job data from the backup repository.
    • You cannot use a scale-out backup repository as a cloud repository. You cannot add a cloud repository as an extent to the scale-out backup repository.
    • If a backup repository is added as an extent to the scale-out backup repository, you cannot use it as a regular backup repository.
    • You cannot add a scale-out backup repository as an extent to another scale-out backup repository.
    • You cannot add a backup repository as an extent if this backup repository is already added as an extent to another scale-out backup repository.
    • You cannot add a backup repository on which some activity is being performed (for example, a backup job or restore task) as an extent to the scale-out backup repository.
    • If you use Enterprise Edition of Veeam Backup & Replication, you can create 1 scale-out backup repository with 3 extents for this scale-out backup repository. Enterprise Plus Edition has no limitations on the number of scale-out backup repositories or extents.