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SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business Backup Jobs Fail with (403) Forbidden Warning Message

SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business Backup Jobs Fail with (403) Forbidden Warning Message

KB ID:	3104
Product:	Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 \| 3.0 \| 4.0 \| 5.0 Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 \| 6.0 \| 7.0 \| 7a
Published:	2020-02-13
Last Modified:	2023-03-16

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Challenge

SharePoint Online or OneDrive for Business backup jobs fail with the following message:

Processing site https://site.sharepoint.com/sites/111/subsite finished with warning: 
Failed to backup item version: //1024/Shared Documents/
   , version: 2.0, 
The remote server returned an error: (403) Forbidden. :: 0:00:21

Cause

Due to limitations of file version history, files cannot be downloaded.

Solution

To confirm the limitations of history of file versions, do the following:

Open the affected OneDrive or Site in the Web-browser.
Find the file that cannot be downloaded and open Version history.
Left-click the date.
- If the 403 error appears, that means that the file is inaccessible in Office 365. Make sure to contact Microsoft Technical Support.
- If you are getting any other error, contact Veeam Technical Support.

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