If you’re using Veeam Backup & Replication, you may have encountered warnings in your logs about encryption being disabled for configuration backups.
When encryption is disabled for configuration backups in Veeam, you might see warnings like these in your logs:
Warning Skipping credentials backup because encryption is disabled.
This will complicate the restore process significantly.
Enable configuration backup encryption to stop receiving this warning.Here’s how you can enable encryption to fix these warnings:
Launch the Veeam Backup & Replication console on your server.
Go to the Menu (top-left corner) and select Configuration Backup.
In the Configuration Backup settings, Check the box for “Enable backup file encryption” and click Add.
Set a strong password for the encryption. This password will be required to restore the configuration backup, so ensure it is stored securely.
If you want to suppress the encryption-related warnings in Veeam Backup & Replication without enabling encryption, you can modify the registry as you mentioned. By adding the ConfigurationBackupSuppressEncryptionWarning registry key, you can disable the specific warnings about encryption being disabled.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Veeam\Veeam Backup and Replication
Key "ConfigurationBackupSuppressEncryptionWarning", DWORD, value "1"This registry key suppresses the specific warnings about encryption being disabled for configuration backups.
After applying this change, you will no longer see the warnings in the Veeam logs.
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