Veeam Backup And Replication Agent Download

[Paula Shuffleburg]

VeeamAgents provide the ability to back up and restore workloads which prohibit the use of a virtual machine backup (e.g. physical computers, public cloud vms, vms which snapshots cannot be created for). Veeam Backup & Replication lets you centrally deploy and manage Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows and Veeam Agent for Linux on computers in your infrastructure from within the Veeam Backup & Replication console.

Best practice: review and uncheck these checkboxes in environments with strict software deployment/maintenance rules and processes. Veeam agents can also be pre-installed by 3rd party software. It might even be preferred to disable scheduled rescan of Protection Groups as described here.

It is backed up by an Agent job in my VBR server (v11a, latest patch), with the agent installed on the host in version 5.0.3.4708. Backup works fine, file-level restore from VBR in the Windows system too.

I know this link is for Agent v6.0 but did you select the option for the files on the network and then point it to the VBR server rather than copying the files to a USB disk and using that? Just wondering if both methods were tried?

Ok - so then when you copied the files to the USB drive did you copy all files - VBM, VBK, VIB for the entire backup chain? If you are missing files in the chain that might be possibly why it cannot read the files properly. Something to check and make sure.

The Veeam agent and it's recovery media cannot access backup copies directly. You need to access those through a Veeam Backup repository. So in case of a DR, you would have to install a fresh VBR server, import the backup files and then connect the recovery media to this VBR server.

Hm, i tried the following. Import the Backup Copy to my Veeam Server Repository, started the bare metal machine with veeam usb stick, and choose bare metal recovery from my veeam server repository. There are all machines available for restore but not the imported backup copy.

Veeam agent is the backup solution for physical servers and workstations, a standalone backup. Veeam B&R is a complex solution which combines Veeam agent functionality and stores backups in the specified backup repository and also has a possibility to back up virtual machines on Hyper-V/VMware hypervisor and supports tapes as the backup target. Also, depends on your Veeam B&R edition (essentials, standard or enterprise) you got new features like Office 365 backup, Cloud connect, Exchange and SQL backup, etc.

This year's most prominent trends in data backup software centered on the mainstream acceptance of source deduplication, improvements in virtual machine backup, and the impact of storage snapshots, remote replication and continuous data protection (CDP) on the traditional backup process.

A common thread in each of the trends is the industry's attempt to address the problem of explosive data growth, as IT shops confront escalating pressure to complete their backups within a timeframe that won't adversely affect their businesses.

"When you're trying to stuff more data, and time is a fixed variable, you've got to figure out ways to get it done faster," said Lauren Whitehouse, a senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) in Milford, Mass. "Any method of moving less data for backup purposes, or streaming it faster, or processing it faster is definitely the driver."

In interviews of 146 Fortune 1000 companies, the InfoPro Inc. found that of 46% using data reduction/deduplication, 6% are piloting or evaluating the technology, and 31% have it in their near-term or long-term plans. Only 18% indicated they have no plans for data deduplication.

But, among those using deduplication, there are currently more dedicated appliance deployments than data backup software-based implementations, according to Dave Russell, a research vice president at Gartner Inc.

"What we're seeing so far is that some organizations are electing to do both," Russell said, "but they do it selectively, maybe doing files in the backup software and large databases with the appliances."

Source deduplication attacks the problem earlier in the process than target deduplication, removing redundant data at the application server, often through an agent installed on the server. The main advantage is the system sends less data over the network, reducing the strain on bandwidth; the chief downside is the additional processing overhead on the application server.

"That was a pretty big innovation, and it's definitely been a really popular feature for backup," said Rachel Dines, an analyst at Forrester Research Inc. in Cambridge, Mass. "It's great on file systems. I'm seeing a lot of people use it in virtual environments, because there's a lot of redundancy there as well. I'm also seeing people actually do backups over the WAN with source-side deduplication because there's so little data being sent."

AMB Property Corp. is finding source dedupe especially helpful in simplifying backup at far-flung data centers in San Francisco (primary site), Las Vegas (disaster recovery site), Boston, Shanghai, Tokyo and Amsterdam. The company had first tried backing up its server systems to tape over the WAN, but it encountered trouble getting a consistent success rate.

After exhausting other options, the IT operations team this year elected to deploy grids of servers running EMC Corp.'s Avamar and install agents across the WAN links. The agents, which are licensed based on storage capacity, deduplicate the data on the backup clients/application servers.

"The first backup is the most time consuming and the heaviest one, but each subsequent backup goes very, very quickly, sending only the changed data," said Jason Leong, vice president of network operations at AMB.

A full backup of a data store once took eight to 12 hours and consumed a significant amount of bandwidth, but it now takes 30 minutes to 1.5 hours, according to Leong. The footprint is about 8 TB to 10 TB, rather than the roughly 30 TB that AMB would have had in the absence of deduplication. Daily backups of changed data are sometimes as low as 0.5 GB.

At its central data center, AMB currently uses Avamar's deduplication as well as traditional backup, with EMC's NetWorker and virtual tape libraries (VTLs). But, the company is working to integrate systems to enable NetWorker to use Avamar for backend storage and target-based deduplication, as it tries to shift away from VTLs and tapes, Leong said.

As was the case at AMB, a shift in backup strategy often coincides with the increasing use of virtual servers. In turn, scores of vendors have been working to ease the backup of virtual machines (VMs).

"All of these guys, bar none, are making it easier to work with VMware, in particular," said Arun Taneja, founder and senior analyst at Taneja Group. "There were dramatic changes over the past year: a lot more visibility and much better efficiency in extracting duplication out of virtual machines.

"But, in the grand scheme of things, we're in the very early stages of how to protect virtual machines," Taneja added. "In spite of the innovations, backup is still pretty primitive in the virtual server world today."

VMware Inc., the leading virtual server technology vendor, made available vStorage APIs for Data Protection to enable data backup software to perform central VM backups without the overhead of running backup tasks from inside individual VMs.

Major data backup software vendors followed suit with improvements, in response to continuing pressure from VM backup specialists such as PHD Virtual Technologies Inc., Quest Software Inc. and Veeam Software Corp., each of which designed software with virtual server environments in mind.

Bill Wheeler, a Windows operations manager at VW Credit Inc. (VCI), a subsidiary of Volkswagen Group of America Inc., said the company had no desire to abandon its Symantec Corp. NetBackup software as part of its backup overhaul to accommodate its heavily virtualized server environment.

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