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Required Applications and Permissions for Multi-OS FLR and Repository Support for Linux
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Purpose
Solution
Permissions Requirements
Permissions are dependent on the intended role of the Linux server. For more information, review this page of the user guide.
Authentication Requirements
Linux servers registered with Veeam Backup & Replication infrastructure must use Password or Certificate-based authentication methods and bash shell.
Required Applications
- bash
- ssh
- scp
- sftp
- gzip
- tar
- perl
Required perl modules (Click to expand)
When Perl is required, the following Perl modules must be installed:
In most scenarios, these will be installed by default.
- constant
- Carp
- Cwd
- Data::Dumper
- Encode
- Encode::Alias
- Encode::Config
- Encode::Encoding
- Encode::MIME::Name
- Exporter
- Exporter::Heavy
- File::Path
- File::Spec
- File::Spec::Unix
- File::Temp
- List::Util
- Scalar::Util
- SOAP::Lite
- Socket
- Storable
- Threads
Starting with Veeam Backup & Replication 11, Perl is only required when using non-persistent data movers. Non-persistent data movers are used when a non-root account is used by Veeam Backup & Replication and the option Elevate account privileges automatically is not enabled.
Persistent data movers are required if the Linux server being added to Veeam Backup & Replication will function as a VMware Backup Proxy or a Hardened Repository.
Known Limitation
Veeam Backup & Replication does not support SSH connections to a server where the user Veeam logs in as is configured to have tmux automatically started when logging in.
- For non-persistent agents, it must be disabled completely for the user Veeam Backup & Replication is configured to connect as.
- For persistent agents, it must be disabled at the time of deployment.
- For Hardened Repositories, review: https://www.veeam.com/kb4250
[user@rhel8 ~]$ sudo grep tmux /etc/bashrc
case "$name" in sshd|login) exec tmux ;; esac
While this specific example is from RHEL 8 using the NIST 800-171 security profile, which includes tmux automatic startup system-wide, the same concept applies to other distros.
To disable the automatic launching of tmux, edit the /etc/bashrc file and comment out the line with tmux. When complete, the bashrc should be as shown in the grep output below.
[user@rhel8 ~]$ sudo grep tmux /etc/bashrc
#case "$name" in sshd|login) exec tmux ;; esac
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