The VM was created in the vCenter, but you cannot power it on, and there is no Virtual Disk. When checking the last line in the restore log, the incremental. When you try to restore the VM, you get a backup with a broken chain and get the error: “Backup files are unavailable.”Įven when you get this error, the VM restore continues and finishes with the next image. You can now choose one of the restore points to restore the VM.

I will discuss in this article when you try to restore a VM with a Backup that has a broken chain, you get an error: “Backup files are unavailable.”Īs you can see in the next screenshot, this VM had four restore points.

Note: “Reverse Incremental” is always a slow backup compared with “Incremental.” Since the last backup will always be a full backup and all incremental will be injected in the last backup. With this option is more difficult to have a Broken Backup Chain. Mainly if you are not using “Reverse Incremental.” Increments are always injected in the last backup to create a full backup. This article will explain How to fix Broken backup chain in Veeam Backup & Replication.Ī Broken Backup Chain is when you have a full Backup(.vbk) and several (can be 2 or more) incremental(.vib) that were deleted or corrupted.

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