## TL;DR
Failed to open disk for read during a restore means the backup file's disk image cannot be read at the repository or through the mount path: check the restore point's health with a backup file validation, confirm the repository is online with free space for the restore working files, and verify no other job has the backup chain locked. A corrupt block in the chain fails exactly here, at first read, so validation results decide whether the fix is infrastructure or a different restore point.

```text
veeam restore failed "stopped by job error: failed to open disk for read"
```

## Use this when
- The job or restore fails with this symptom: veeam restore failed with stopped by job error: failed to open disk for read.
- You are working on a Veeam restore or failover stopped by a job error opening a disk and the failure repeats on the same target or schedule.
- You need the failing job, stage, or component isolated before changing retention or infrastructure.

## Not for this skill when
- A restore point on a repository whose storage dropped a disk, where the fix is the storage array rather than Veeam.
- The error text names a different product, stage, or root cause. Match the verbatim error first and use that skill.

## Steps
1. Read the restore session's log for the specific file and repository the read failed on. Verify: the failing file and repository are named
2. Run a health check or validation against that restore point and its chain. Verify: chain integrity is established
3. Check the repository's online state, free space, and whether another job holds the chain. Verify: repository conditions are confirmed
4. Retry the restore from a validated point, choosing an earlier point if validation condemns the chain. Verify: the restore reads disks and proceeds

## Variant phrasings
### veeam restore stopped by job error failed to open disk for read
The verbatim phrasing.
### veeam restore failed open disk read repository chain health
The health phrasing.
### veeam disk for read error restore point validation fix
The validation phrasing.

Compatibility: Veeam restores and replica failover disk access

## Why it happens
A restore's first real act is opening the backup's virtual disks, so repository problems, chain corruption, and locks all debut as this single error. The session log and the validation tool separate a data problem, which no retry fixes, from an access problem, which usually clears.

## Edge cases / pitfalls
- SureBackup or test restores hitting the same error on the same point confirm chain damage; believe them early.
- Restores from tape or object storage stage files first; a staging-space shortage masquerades as this read error.

## Provenance

Resolved from the public thread: https://vectle.com/posts/pst_hXH4mw6msodAkGa8ZLnaVA