Veeam Backup & Replication - Steps to Compile and Upload Logs
Challenge
This article discusses how to collect logs from Veeam Backup & Replication v8.x and newer, as well as what to include when submitting a Veeam Support case for technical assistance.
If you are a Cloud Provider gathering logs from your infrastructure please see: https://www.veeam.com/kb2096
Solution
- For Backup, Replication, and other jobs, select “Export logs for this job” If multiple jobs are affected, you can multiple-select.
- For problems with restore or replica failover, you should select “Export logs for these objects” and choose the production VM that was backed up or replicated.
- For issues with the GUI or problems that don’t fall into any of the above categories, select “Export all logs for selected components” and choose the related server(s).
The following animation demonstrates how to compile logs in Veeam Backup & Replication.
- In the Veeam Backup & Replication Console, click the Menu button in the top left-hand corner of the gui and go to [Help]->[Support Information] .
- The Export Logs wizard allows for various scopes to define which logs will be collected:
- For Backup, Replication, and other jobs, select “Export logs for this job.” If multiple jobs are affected, you can multiple-select.
- For problems with restore or replica failover, you should select “Export logs for these objects” and choose the production VM that was backed up or replicated.
- For issues with the GUI or problems that don’t fall into any of the above categories, select “Export all logs for selected components” and choose the related server(s).
- For Backup, Replication, and other jobs, select “Export logs for this job.” If multiple jobs are affected, you can multiple-select.
- On the Next page, use the "Collect logs for the last [ X ] days" where X should be greater than the number of days since the issue has been occurring.
Note: If the issue was previously not occurring be sure to add a couple of days to the value so that the Support Engineers have logs from prior to the issue.
- On the Next page of the wizard select a location where the logs will be exported to.
- After clicking "Apply" the log collection process will start.
- While the logs are collect it is possible to click "Finish" and allow the log collection to complete in the background. To view the status of the log collection go to [History]->[System] and look for the [Log Export] task.
- When the log collection is completed, there will be a .zip file ready to be provided to Veeam Support.
Note: If the .zip file is not present in the destination chosen for the log export, the log collection has not completed. Please wait until the .zip file is created. If the zip file is manually created it will result in a partial log package.
- Please attach these to your case via the customer portal by clicking "Add logs" at https://my.veeam.com/#/my-cases.
If your case involves a VSS error or is related SQL Transaction Log backup, additional logs from the guest will be needed. Please collect those as documented in https://www.veeam.com/kb1789
If your case involves a processing error with Oracle, additional logs from that server will be required as documented in https://www.veeam.com/kb2374
If your case involves Veeam Agent for Windows or Veeam Agent for Linux, logs must be collected from the individual machines as well as Veeam Backup & Replication.
- How to collect logs for Veeam Agent for Windows:
https://www.veeam.com/kb2404 - How to collect logs for Veeam Agent for Linux:
https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/agentforlinux/userguide/logs_export.html
More information
Below are the relative log path lists for Veeam Backup & Replication. If there are difficulties compiling the logging requested via the wizard-based instructions above, please obtain the files from the appropriate directory below and provide Veeam Support a .zip file copy.
- Windows 2003, XP – C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Veeam\Backup\
- Windows Vista, 7 - C:\Users\All Users\Veeam\Backup\
- Server 2008 or newer - C:\ProgramData\Veeam\Backup\
- Linux - /var/log/VeeamBackup/
Typical log files requested for a manual log compilation will be:
The task's folder located in the parent directory, zipped. This will contain all relevant job/task/agent data.
- All logs from the parent directory named svc.*.log, util.*.log, as well as the VeeamBackupManager.log and VeeamShell.log
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