First Backup Job -Successful but no files in repository disk

Where is your repository pointed to in Veeam?  It is impossible for a backup to run successfully, and no files be in the repo.  Also what version of Veeam are you using?

Hello ​@ArtInt Andy !

Welcome to Community !
Do you have installed Veeam Agent on your PC ?
https://www.veeam.com/products/free/microsoft-windows.html

Hi ​@ArtInt Andy ...as others have shared, can you provide more info on what you installed exactly? Veeam Backup Community Edition (free) or Veeam Agent for Windows (Free)? Can you also share your Job configs? Hopefully we can help you when you share the more needed info.

Best.

I have installed VEEAM Backup & Replication 13 Build 13.0.1.2067 License: Community Edition. 

The install process created a “default” repository that was  assigned a nonexistent drive, not what I wanted. I thought I had deleted it but it won’t go away and throws a warning. I defined two more repositories for main backup and offsite copy. Both succeeded and are recognized.  I steered a backup job to one disk and a second job to add copies on the other as well. I do have VEEAM Agent installed. Also the console was installed.I DID NOT make the suggested PC hardening (yet, until  I learn the side effects).

Thank you all for jumping in to offer assistance I appreciate it.  Let me know if I have left anything out. I may need instruction extracting data.

So are the backup files in the new Repos then?

You can change the Default Repo (I believe), but you have to unassign any backup jobs you have it assigned to first.

Check your job settings again and confirm the job is pointed to the correct repository. If the backup really finished successfully, the files should be there. You can also try running the job once more and then look directly inside the repo folder to see what is created.

Apparently not. I get this. The target drive has a Veeam Backup Folder and Configuration  Backup but it contains just a few kb.   Maybe using wrong agent? Veeam installed several services and I see VM and  NET which I recognize and postgresql is unfamiliar to me and I don’t see Hyper-v which I thought was Windows 11 major tool for virtualization.

If all this seems irrelevant or unrelated please excuse my ignorance, I am new to these concepts.  I had some trouble reading the manuals foe VEEAM Backup and Replication 13 Community Edition for all the precise and technical professional jargon. 

Thanks again for the new user group member friendliness.   

Configuration Backup for Tuffy
To: Backup Repository 1
    
Warning
4 catalogs processed
 
Saturday, April 4, 2026 10:00:10 AM
Start time     10:00:02 AM     Data size     4.0 MB     4/4/2026 10:00:05 AM Warning Skipping credentials backup because encryption is disabled. This will complicate the restore process significantly. Enable configuration backup encryption to stop receiving this warning
4/4/2026 10:00:05 AM Warning Skipping server certificate backup because encryption is disabled
End time     10:00:10 AM     Backup size     241.3 KB
Duration     0:00:08     Compression     16.87x
Details
Catalog     Items     Size     Packed      
Configuration catalog     1699     944.4 KB     93.8 KB
Backups catalog     5     4.1 KB     1.0 KB
Sessions catalog     2392     3.0 MB     146.2 KB
Tape catalog     1     397.0 B     261.0 B
Veeam Backup & Replication 13.0.1.2067

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