<\/span><\/h2>\nPeople often have questions about file share backup in Veeam.<\/p>\n
I use NAS storage as an example from the real world when I talk about this.<\/p>\n
There are different sizes and capacities of NAS devices, but most of them use Linux-based file systems like NFS or CIFS.<\/p>\n
You can’t add a NAS device to Veeam the same way you would a Windows server.<\/p>\n
You can’t add a NAS server directly to Veeam using an IP address.<\/p>\n
Instead, I show how Veeam backs up NAS data by making it a file share.<\/p>\n
In real life, I open the NAS interface, find the shared folders, and then add those shares to Veeam.<\/p>\n
I always stress permissions here.<\/p>\n
Veeam needs the right permissions to read and write to the shared folder.<\/p>\n
If it doesn’t have these permissions, it can’t back up the data.<\/p>\n