Technical Tip: Veeam Backup & Replication fails sporadically with FortiEDR collector running in parallel
| Description | This article describes how to exclude Veeam backup and replication processes from FortiEDR security monitoring. |
| Scope | Applies to both On-prem and cloud FortiEDR deployments. |
| Solution | Login to FortiEDR Manager -> Security Settings -> Exclusion Manager -> Add a new list and name it 'Veeam' -> Add the required collector group to it -> Add the following Process and Execution Prevention exclusions for each path:
On a Veeam Backup Server:
On the Guest OS of Protected Machines:
The following are required for Veeam Remote Tape access service:
Below are required for Veeam backup cloud gateway:
On SQL Servers when SQL Server Transaction Log Backup is enabled:
For Veeam Hyper-V Integration:
Example as below:
For more information about how to define an exclusion, refer to this document.
If there are still any problems encountered, open a new technical support ticket for further assistance: Support Fortinet. |

