VEEAM BACKUP TEMPORARY SNAPSHOT

[desadi10]

I work with Veeam to do backups of virtual machines, but, when I do a backup of vCenter virtual machine, when I go to the VMware vSphere Web Client, in the “Snapshots” tab, there are a los of backups with this name “VEEAM BACKUP TEMPORARY SNAPSHOT”.

I deleted them, but, after few days, I have the same problem.

[daphnissov]

Again, not a vSphere issue but a Veeam one. Veeam isn't deleting snapshots or is failing upon trying. Please post in the Veeam forum for such issues.

[insearchof]

When this happens I just remove the snapshots.

Have had no know issues doing that.

But I would double check with Veeam

Here is a KB article from Veeam

KB1790: Veeam Backup Temporary Snapshot

[daphnissov]

If you're using a recent version of Veeam, manually removing the snapshots it creates should be unnecessary. If, for some reason, it isn't removing them, then you have an environmental problem that needs to be remedied and that would be a Veeam question.

[desadi10]

When I delete manually the snapshots, they are deleted without errors and i don't have any problem with the virtual machine, but, after some time, I have the same problems with the snapshots.

[daphnissov]

Then there is a problem there because that should occur. Since it is, you need to investigate why it isn't removing them in your environment. If that's something you're interested in solving, you should definitely post in the Veeam forum, or just open a support case if you have support.

[desadi10]

I will try to investigate what is the problem.

Thanks so much.

[UmeshAhuja]

Hi,

As a alternate workaround you can

1) Create an alarm in vCenter that will send an email if a snapshot exceeds a certain size.

Go to Home -> Inventory -> Datastores and Datastore Clusters

Alarms tab

View: Defintion

Right Click to create New Alarm

General

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Alarm Name: VM with snapshots

Monitor: Virtual Machines, Monitor for specific conditions

Triggers

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VM Snapshot Size(GB)

Condition: is above

Warning: 10

Alert:20

Trigger if any of the conditions are satisfied

Actions

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Send a notification email

2) Once you receive the email simply click the delete all snapshot from vSphere client and let VMware clean them up.

[desadi10]

It's a very good idea.

I am going to do it, and then, i will post here.

Thanks so much Umesh

[desadi10 · Accepted solution]

I contacted with Veeam and I solved this problem.

I have this problem with the vCenter virtual machine, so that, I added a standalone server where there was the vCenter virtual machine through DNS, I configure the replication job and I didn’t choose the “Enable application-aware processing” check.

Apparently, the problem is solved.