Uninstalling Veeam Agents and Veeam Plug-ins

You can remove all Veeam Agents and Veeam Plug-ins installed on a specific protected computer as one operation. This may be useful is both Veeam Agent and Veeam Plug-in are installed on the computer and you do not want to uninstall them one by one.

Uninstalling Veeam Agents and Veeam Plug-ins TIP

To learn about Veeam plug-ins for enterprise applications, see Veeam Plug-ins for Enterprise Applications Guide.

To uninstall all Veeam Agents and Veeam Plug-ins:

Open the Inventory view.
In the inventory pane, expand the Physical Infrastructure node and select the necessary protection group.
In the working area, select the necessary computer and click Uninstall Everything on the ribbon or right-click the computer and select Uninstall everything.
In the displayed notification window, click Yes.

Uninstalling Veeam Agents and Veeam Plug-ins NOTE

Consider the following:

If automatic installation of Veeam Agent is enabled in the protection group settings, after you remove Veeam Agent from a selected computer, Veeam Backup & Replication will install Veeam Agent on this computer during the next rescan job session started by schedule.
Prerequisite components installed and used by Veeam Agent are not removed during the uninstall process. To remove the remaining components, use the Microsoft Windows Control Panel on the computer from which you uninstalled Veeam Agent.

If you uninstall Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows added to the protection group for pre-installed Veeam Agents and then re-install on the same computer, Veeam Agent will not connect to Veeam backup server automatically. To connect Veeam Agent, you must repeat the configuration step of the Veeam Agent deployment scenario. To learn more, see Deploying Veeam Agents Using Generated Setup Files.