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How to Disable the Renaming of Reversed Incremental VBK File
| KB ID: | 1076 |
| Product: | Veeam Backup & Replication | 5.0 | 6.1 | 6.5 | 7.0 | 8.0 | 9.0 | 9.5 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 12.1 | 12.2 |
| Published: | 2011-07-19 |
| Last Modified: | 2024-10-15 |
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This article is related to the automatic renaming of the VBK file, which occurs only when using Reverse Incremental backup mode.
Note: Reverse Incremental as a backup mode will begin being deprecated starting in version 13 of Veeam Backup & Replication.
For more information, review Veeam R&D Forums: [V13] Deprecated and discontinued features for our 2025 release
Purpose
Solution
To disable automatically renaming the VBK file associated with a Backup Job using Reverse Incremental, create the following registry value on the Veeam Backup Server.
Key Location: HKLM\Software\Veeam\Veeam Backup and Replication
Value Name: DisableVBKRename
Value Type: DWORD (32-Bit) Value
Value Data: 1
Note: No reboot is needed. This registry value will affect jobs immediately and become effective when a job next creates a new Active Full.
PowerShell command to create this registry value:
New-ItemProperty -Path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Veeam\Veeam Backup and Replication\' -Name 'DisableVBKRename' -Value "1" -PropertyType DWORD -ForceNote how the VBK file's name no longer contains a datestamp that needs updating each time the job runs.
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