I have two file shares: one for backing up my jobs and one for immutable backups. They are both backing up the same virtual machines. However, my immutable backups keep failing. The immutable repository also shows as Unavailable under Managed Servers.
The error I’m getting is: ‘Failed to make the backup file immutable after applying the retention policy: Read-only file system. Unable to open file [.veeam.635.lock] in directory [/BACKUPS/"job_name"] — Error: Read-only file system (POSIX).’
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We need way more info here. What Veeam product are you using? Describe your job(s). Is what you’re backing up VM(s) or physical? Etc, etc….
Also, just an initial guess...but if you use an A/V solution, make sure you have exclusions in place on the source being backed up. Follow the below:
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The touch command will try to create an empty file named //BACKUPS/filename
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+11looks that
veeam cannot write its internal lock files (.veeam.X.lock)
i would suggest to check permission for service account
veeamuser : veeamgroup rwx permissions
or as
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