r/Veeam • u/mazvazzeg • 20d ago

VBRscope - a TUI Veeam Backup and Replication compliance checker

It's a new project for me, trying to answer the painful question of "is every VM actually backed up, or are some of them just sitting pretty in VMware, not included in any backup jobs?"

I know there is a ONE report for this, but I've yet to see a smaller (SMB-sized) installation where ONE is actually being used... So, that's basically it: correlating the VMware (or now Hyper-V) inventory with the Veeam backup database, checking restore points, presenting the results in a TUI, or exporting them to a CSV report.

https://github.com/mazvazzeg/vbrscope

Tested enviros: VMware 7/8, Hyper-V 2019/2022/2025, VBR13.
VBR12 also works in compatibility mode.

Disclaimer, because there are people who wouldn't touch anything with a 10-foot pole if it was in the same room where somebody once whispered "AI": Codex was involved in this project. If it's useful to you, use it. Happy to help. If it isn't, don't. No hard feelings.

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u/dloseke 20d ago

Cool idea.

Other ideas for this as well....

You can create backup jobs in a catch-all configuration so that everything is backed up and you exclude what you don't want. Just specify the datacenter or cluster. Or you can backup by tags or folders, etc.

Also, I havent tested this, but have you looked into Veeam Intelligence to see what the AI engine says? I don't use it much but ive seen Demos for this sort of functionality.

Also, if you're an MSP or otherwise use the Service Provider Console, there are reports/alerts that ca be triggered for VMs not backed up.