Challenge
It is necessary to exclude specific databases on one or multiple Microsoft SQL Server instances from Veeam SQL Log backup processing.Solution
In Veeam Backup & Replication 8.x and 9.x, registry keys need to be created, specifying which combination of Instance/DB to excludeAll keys need to be created inside "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\VeeaM\Veeam Backup and Replication", on the server Veeam Backup and Replication is installed on.
SqlBackupInstanceDatabaseDelimiter
Type: REG_SZ
value: ":"
SqlBackupInstanceDatabasePairsDelimiter
Type: REG_SZ
value: ";"
SqlBackupDatabasesToSkip
Type: REG_SZ
value: "mysqlserver_instance:mydb;mysqlserver_instance:mydb2"
To exclude SQL databases from SQL logs backups, list databases and instances as following, with multiple combinations possible:
sql_instance_name:db_name - skip everything containing specified instance and db name
sql_instance_name: - skip all databases on this instance
:db_name - skip all databases with this name, on all instances