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The ‘Veeam Guest Catalog’ service on the Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager server works a bit differently though, it basically functions as a global, federal catalog service. The ‘Veeam Guest Catalog’ service on the Veeam backup server works as I described at the beginning of this article, by collecting indexing data from backup jobs running on itself and then the storing of this data locally in the Veeam Backup Catalog folder. This service enables the guest OS file indexing feature. After the index has been created, this information is stored on the Veeam Backup & Replication server.īefore going further let’s just cover the services that are running this show, basically, there is a windows service named ‘Veeam Guest Catalog’ service which runs on each Veeam Backup & Replication server and is running on the Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager server. For a typical VM, the required data is captured and parsed nearly instantly, which Veeam calls Instant Indexing. How does it work? It’s worth pointing out that Veeam is agentless so this indexing happens without agents, nor does it need to scan the whole file system, instead when a backup job runs, during the guest OS freeze process, Veeam creates a catalog (or index) of the VM guest OS files by directly reading from the NTFS Master File Table (MFT). What is it? Allows you to perform searches within guest OS files stored inside the backups without having to mount the backup files first. So you may be thinking whats the point of it then or whats the advantage here and should I enable it? The menu tells us it will “create catalog of guest files to enable browsing, searching and 1-click restore of individual files” which sounds quite important but then it also says that “indexing is optional and not required to restore instant file level recoveries”.

So you may have noticed that when you’re configuring a backup job in Veeam Backup & Replication there is an option to ‘Enable guest file system indexing’.

Veeam backup enterprise manager license file