Procedure to shrink the VBR database?

I think there are procedures to cleanup the database, but those should only be executed by Veeam Support. You could try to cleanup some catalog information, like file to tape.

But in your screenshot it seems that the log file has reached 10GB, not the database. In that case you should create a database backup and/or change to simple recovery model. That way the Veeam server should be operational again.

You may find that you can’t amend the DB if you’re right against the limit. If you have a SQL Server standard edition elsewhere in your environment, you may need to attach the database to the fully licensed instance to perform the changes and shrink, then continue. 🙂

As @regnor has said, simple recovery is going to help here, but the DB is also quite large and approaching that 10GB magic figure, check how much of that space is unused and potentially shrink the database if you don’t need it to be anywhere near that bit, then set up a SQL alert to notify you when the database grows.

Once your database is back to normal, go through the GUI options in SSMS to shrink the database and it should tell you how much space is available within that database (white space)

Thank you all, I will have a look at your suggestions.

I am not a big MS SQL specialist and have hoped I can avoid this situation. But this is a customer controlled server and I have to repair it… 😎

I will keep you updated...