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title: "Data Sovereignty Violations"
description: "This report shows potential data sovereignty violations by listing all protected objects with backups or replicas residing in a different location."
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dateModified: "2026-10-23"
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# Data Sovereignty Violations

This report shows potential data sovereignty violations by listing all protected objects with backups or replicas residing in a different location.

- The **Summary** display contains charts that display the sovereignty violations of production data, their backups, backup copies and replicas.
- The **Report Data** display contains the **Data Sovereignty Violations** tables that show details on the location mismatch of backups, backup copies, tapes and replicas for a data source grouped by Veeam Backup & Replication server name. The **Objects with no Location Tag** table displays all objects in the infrastructure that have no location tag grouped by the type of object.

## Report Parameters

You can specify the following report parameters:

- **Scope**: defines a list of Veeam Backup & Replication servers to include in the report.
- **Protection types**: defines a list of Veeam Backup & Replication jobs to include in the report.
- **Workload types**: defines whether physical computers or virtual machines are included in the report.

::: note

Infrastructure topology view in Veeam ONE and Veeam Backup & Replication must match. Otherwise, Veeam ONE Web Client may show invalid data for Veeam Backup & Replication reports and dashboards.

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## Use Case

Veeam Backup & Replication supports a notion of location which you can assign to virtual infrastructure, backup infrastructure and agent management objects. Location settings helps to monitor where production data and their copies and replicas reside geographically.

The report analyzes whether any backups, backup copies and replicas reside in a location different from a data source and displays results as pie charts. This visual representation will help you identify which jobs and objects violate data protection regulations accepted in your organization.