Network Attached Storage (SMB Shares)

Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 allows you to use network attached storage (NAS) as JET-based backup repositories. Such NAS can be a shared folder on your computer, or any other physical device that can be accessed using the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol.

Note

SMB shares support will be dropped in future versions of Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365.

Consider the following:

Network share browsing is not supported; make sure to prove the path to the shared folder manually.
A shared folder must be on a computer or device located within the same or a trusted domain.

To use SMB 3.0 or later, make sure you are using Microsoft Windows 8 or later or Microsoft Windows Server 2012 or later.
SMB shares version 3.0 are only supported when they are within the Microsoft Exchange Storage definition. For more information, see this Microsoft article.

To access and use a shared folder, do the following:

Configure NTFS permissions.
Configure share permissions.

For more information, see this Veeam article.

After you share a folder, you can access it using the SMB 3.0 protocol to read/write data to/from this folder.

To add a shared folder as a backup repository, at the Specify Backup Proxy Server step, in the Path field, specify the path to the shared folder using the following syntax: \\<FQDN_name> or <ip_address>\<shared_folder_name>.