Veeam allows a backup job to have different backup and retention policies. For certain configuration types such as, Synthetic Full Backup or Forever Forward Incremental Backup Retention Policy, one of the *.vib files is renamed as *.vbk at regular intervals by Veeam. In APTARE IT Analytics, the Veeam Data Collector retrieves backup information for a specified period of time at regular intervals. This set of backup information may contain file names with a *.vib extension (instead of *.vbk) and display in the Job Details report.

For details about the various use cases, see https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/backup_files.html?ver=95.

As you compare APTARE IT Analytics reports to native Veeam reports, if there are discrepancies in the files, you can force a historic data collection to examine the details. Additionally, when validating APTARE IT Analytics reports against Veeam reports, focus on the file names and not the file extensions.

Occasionally, Veeam will create additional maintenance jobs such as Full backup file merge completed successfully and there is not a data size associated with the job. These jobs will be displayed with a status of Successful but without an associated data size.