{"id":639,"date":"2019-07-30T23:37:38","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T04:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zewwy.ca\/?p=639"},"modified":"2019-07-30T23:37:54","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T04:37:54","slug":"veeam-smb-and-the-failed-to-get-disk-free-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/2019\/07\/30\/veeam-smb-and-the-failed-to-get-disk-free-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Veeam, SMB, and the Failed to get disk free space"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/span>The Story<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

I wanted to try Veeam B&R Free again, now that I discovered a trick on re-issuing the 60 day trial key on ESXi hosts<\/a> so I should be able to get past my old issue I blogged about “The VMware Screw<\/a>“…<\/p>\n

So I D\/L the latest n greatest from Veeam and that’s B&R 9.5 Update 4, grab the latest builds here<\/a> (Veeam Login Req)…<\/p>\n

Run the installer, nothing special here. Love the new UI, amazing how much nicer it is vs the old Free Edition.<\/p>\n

Anyway, navigate to Backup Infrastructure to add a Repo, in this case a simple USB HDD I was sharing via SMB on a FreeNAS server. I had created it with open access so no authentication was required to access the share.<\/p>\n

As shown here, I was accessing the file share without issue in Windows Explorer…<\/p>\n

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However, attempting to add it as a Repo…<\/p>\n

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Whomp, whomm, whmomomomomom.<\/p>\n

Kind of annoying that anonymous SMB is I guess not supported as a Repo type, or maybe just not with my particular setup, I’m not exactly sure what the exact reason for this error being hit as I don’t have access to Veeam source code. Anyway, I started to google for a possible solution, annoying the first result was simply a post which a Veeam rep simply posted to the second most common solution post<\/a> which basically stated:<\/p>\n

“add the registry setting:<\/p>\n

Key: HKLM\\SOFTWARE\\Veeam\\Veeam Backup and Replication\\
\nDWORD: NetUseShareAccess = 1<\/p>\n

As per KB1735”<\/p>\n

Did that and…. Failed to get disk free space. Since a lot of people on these threads are mentioning the user of a username and password I decided to follow this guide<\/a> on creating a user for an SMB share on FreeNAS.<\/p>\n

Follow the Veeam wizard and… “Can’t get disk free space”<\/p>\n

Ughhhh… I was about to give up and actually attempt a physical alternative then I noticed something people were saying…<\/p>\n

ender<\/a> – “Depending on your SMB server, you may need to enter the username as DOMAIN\\user or SERVERNAME\\user before it’s accepted.”<\/p>\n

StivoBerlin<\/a> – “Have you tried to write “YOUDOMAINONYOURSYNOLOGY\\youruser” instead of only “youruser” for the NAS login ?”<\/p>\n

michaelbrandi<\/a> – “I have found that it makes a difference if you enter “full” credentials so not admin but IP\\admin, not sure it’s universal, but it helped me.”<\/p>\n

That’s when I added an account to Veeam as “FREENAS\\TestUser” along with the password, and used that credential after entering the path, and got past the error!<\/p>\n

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I was actually rather impressed at the speed of the backups considering it was a USB drive shared over the network via SMB from FreeNAS…<\/p>\n

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Look at that, backed up a 20 gig vm in 8 minutes wooo! Not bad for Free.<\/p>\n

Maybe I’ll re-follow up on my old free VM backup series and bring it back with a proper tut on each step required to make it work.<\/p>\n

For now I hope this information helps someone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Story I wanted to try Veeam B&R Free again, now that I discovered a trick on re-issuing the 60 day trial key on ESXi hosts so I should be able to get past my old issue I blogged about “The VMware Screw“… So I D\/L the latest n greatest from Veeam and that’s B&R … <\/p>\n

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