Availability for public cloud and physical workloads
Veeam Agent for Linux
Ensure the Availability of your Linux workloads, regardless of if they’re deployed in the public cloud or on premises.
With Veeam® Agent for Linux, you get the following benefits:
- Backup anywhere: Protect an entire computer or create volume-level and file-level backups of Linux instances running in the cloud or on premises
- Flexible recovery: Perform on-premises restores from backups of individual cloud instances or cloud restores of on-premises backups
- Integration with Veeam Backup & Replication™: Take full advantage of Veeam backup repositories as target locations, leverage existing capabilities for file-level recovery — and more!
And, Veeam Agent for Linux is also backed by Veeam’s enterprise-class, 24.7.365 technical support!
What’s New
NEW Veeam Agent for Linux v3 — a key component of the Veeam Availability Platform™ — offers new features and capabilities designed to enhance the level of Availability for your Linux-based cloud instances, physical servers and workstations.
Veeam Agent for Linux v3 adds:
- Enhanced backup capabilities: With added BTRFS support, users can ensure the comprehensive backup of their entire Linux machines running atop of this filesystem.
- Reduced backup complexity: With NEW application aware processing for Oracle, users can reduce the complexities associated with backup and restores of physical Linux servers with application-aware processing for Oracle users.
- Additional backup options: Users can utilize the NEW snapshot-less backup mode to back up critical files from any mounted filesystem to deliver comprehensive backup of all of their data.
Veeam Agent for Linux 2.0.1 introduced:
- Ability to perform a manual active-full backup via CLI
- Support for SLES for SAP, Red Hat 7.5, and other distributions.
Veeam Agent for Linux v2 introduced:
- Agent management within Veeam Availability Suite™2: Streamline the discovery, deployment and centralized management of Veeam Agents and gain visibility into all Veeam backups and restores
- Active full backups: Meet your company backup policies by scheduling periodic active full backups as needed
- Back up off site through Veeam Cloud Connect: Get your backups off site to the cloud with fully integrated, fast and secure backup, and restore functionality — through a Veeam-powered service provider
- Source-side encryption: Encrypt your Linux backup data at the source, before it leaves the protected computer — thus protecting your data in flight and at rest on any backup target
Click here for a complete list of new features
Linux Backup features
Backup options in Veeam Agent for Linux include:
- Entire computer, volume-level and file-level backup: Get image-based backup of the entire system, backup specific volumes, or protect individual files.
- Support for multiple jobsENHANCED1: Schedule multiple Linux backup jobs for more specific RPO and different backup configurations.
- Pre-freeze/post-thaw snapshot scripts1: Specify custom scripts for application-aware processing to create transactionally consistent backups.
- Built-in snapshot and changed block tracking (CBT) drivers: Getincremental backups enabled by Veeam’s kernel module with built-in volume snapshot and CBT capabilities.
- Console UI or command line: Utilize the user-friendly UI or a more traditional command-line interface — making it perfect for any IT administrator.
- Integration with Veeam Backup & Replication2: Leverage Veeam backup repositories as target locations, unlocking existing capabilities for file-level recovery and helping to get your on-premises backups off site.
- Application-aware processing for OracleNEW: reduce the complexities associated with backup and restores of physical Linux servers with application-aware processing for Oracle users.
- Snapshot-less backup mode: Back up critical files from any mounted file system.
Recovery features
Veeam Agent for Linux enables fast recovery for your Linux instances, which translates into increased uptime. Perform on-premises restores from backups of individual instances in the public cloud or perform cloud-based restores of on-premises backups.
Recovery options include:
- Bare-metal restore: Restore your entire system to the same or different hardware
- Volume-level restore: Restore an entire volume from your Linux cloud instance or on-premises backup
- File-level restore: Browse for and restore individual files
Bootable recovery media
Troubleshoot issues using the available recovery media, which includes the following options:
- Restore volumes: Restore an entire volume from your Linux cloud instance or on-premises backups
- Restore files: Browse backups and restore individual files
- Switch to command line: Use the command line to perform all the same actions you can with the built-in UI and get access to advanced system tools
BaaS for the entire environment
Veeam Cloud & Service Provider (VCSP) partners can now include Veeam Agent for Linux backups with their overall offerings to customers. Using the Veeam Backup & Replication console, VCSP partners can manage Linux backups along with their customers’ other Veeam backups.
24.7.365 technical support
Supported system environments
2 Requires Veeam Availability Suite 9.5 Update 3 or later
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