Hello VUG Canada
Well some great news came yesterday from Veeam in the way of a KB article allowing the log location to be changed within the new Veeam Software Appliance. I have personally ran in to this issue using the OVA deployment of the VSA since it provisions 240GB drives which the logs caused me a bit of grief and I needed to do some manual clean up. Using the ISO is a better approach for the VSA as it allows you to create the VM first with drive sizing that better suits your environment so you don’t run in to the log issue, but if you do check out the KB for moving its location.
How to Change Where Logs are Stored on the Veeam Appliances
But please be aware and make note of the limitation as well noted at the beginning of this KB -
Changing Log Location Will Break Automated Log Collection
The automated log collection tools built into both the Veeam Backup & Replication Web UI of the Veeam Software Appliance and the "Create support bundle" function within the Host Management Console collect logs only from the default log location,
/var/log/VeeamBackup/.Diagnostic logging stored in a different folder, as documented in this KB, will not be collected automatically and must be collected manually. Log files must be collected manually by first enabling SSH on the appliance from which logs are needed, then using SFTP to download the new log folder from within
/var/lib/veeam/.If you relocate the log storage location using the information in this KB, please ensure that you notify Veeam Support during case creation.
Note: This limitation will be addressed in a future release.
