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B&R Comunity Edition quits Tape Job with: license has been exceeded

  • August 25, 2025
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Hello Comunity,
Though I am retired, I help now and then in Companies and I have a smal Network at home.

Here I use B&R actual Version 12.3 and actual Patched on a Win 11 Maschine with a Quantum Tape Library for Backup-Storage. My network Storage-System is a QNAP-NAS. I have created a Tape-job to save my Data (approx. 5TB) on tape which runs once a week. I created a User on the QNAP only for Bacing up and it works quite fine for over a year now. 

Because the comunity edition runs well with tape jobs I was glad with this low-cost solution.

For a few days, I restructured my Data. I made new file shares and tried to gave some structure in the system. After reconfiguring the jobs, everything seemed to be fine.

Then I added two file-shares (approx. 1 TB) and the problems started:

First: I tried an external Harddisk connected to the QNAP. The file-share can be used in the network without problems. But when I try to use tis share whith a Tape-job it quits with this message:

24.08.2025 20:21:20 :: License issue for \\192.168.xxx.yyy\Share1: Unable to process the workload: your license has been exceeded  

I transfered the Data on an internal Fileshare, changed the tape-job and the Message keeps on coming:

24.08.2025 20:43:32 :: License issue for \\192.168.xxx.yyy\Share2: Unable to process the workload: your license has been exceeded  

Then I tried to save single Directories in this share, some are accepted, but some are not accepted.

So I made a new Tape-job with only a directory which was accepted, to test the job, it did work. Then I changed the directory to one of those that did not work. It did not work in the smaller job.

I checked the User-Permissions on the QNAP, the Backup-User does have all rights, so the problem seems to be in B&R. I do not understand, that in one fileshare, with 11 directories, 7 van be saved, and 4 cannot be saved because of an “exceeded licence”.

Can sombody give me a hint where to start solving this problem?

Thanks in advance

3 comments

JMeixner
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  • August 25, 2025

Hello ​@Duttchman,
the community edition is restricted to 10 workloads.

A workload is used for each 500GB of file data (except the first 500 GB).
You say you had 5TB backed up (this are 9 or 10 workloads). So, an additional TB will need more than 10 workloads….


waqasali
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  • August 25, 2025

Hello ​@Duttchman To use tape jobs, you’ll need to upgrade to a full Veeam B&R license. 

 


lukas.k
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  • August 25, 2025

Hi ​@Duttchman,

Veeam Community Edition supports only File to Tape Jobs and as Joe said, limited to only 10 workloads.

You simply need to buy a license in this case or reduce your workload capacity that you want to backup.

 

@waqasali:

I’m very sorry to correct you on this but File to Tape is supported but not Backup to Tape.

Reference is here: veeam_data_platform_feature_comparison_ds.pdf

 

Best regards

Lukas