Similarly, cloud providers (Oracle included) often have very "goofy" filter rules for public devices accessing cloud devices.
I can! SMB in particular is very specific when it comes to permissions handling, and if you haven't considered every single element of the transfer process, it's easy to miss which connection is really failing. >I cannot fathom this as I can browse to this share fine from the Veeam server itself I have opened a case with Veeam support - Case #04805045 I then eventually allowed all traffic on the Oracle Firewall inbound to the Linux VM. I disabled IP tables entirely on the LInux repo and allowed ports 2500-5000 inbound on the Oracle Firewall. The other strange part of the error is that it shows the local LAN IP of the Oracle Cloud VM. Now what is strange is that there is a folder created on the repo with the backup name which seems to indicate that it can communicate with the server somewhat. My Veeam server is located onsite and communicates with the Linux repository over the internet (no VPN).Īdding the repository was fine however when attempting to backup to it it results in a failure below:Ģ 17:43:34 :: Processing 10.4.20.15 Error: Agent: Failed to process method : Failed to connect to the port. The Linux repository is an Oracle Cloud instance VM. As we dig deeper into the functionality, we will provide some follow up posts as we uncover more configuration and feature use cases.I have a strange issue backing up to a Linux based repository. The agents provide a good way to back up these physical workloads. The Veeam Linux Agent Installation and Configuration is very easy and intuitive and will most definitely help bridge the gap with the mix of virtual and physical environments that are still running in many enterprises today. We can see on our Backup & Replication 9.5 server the Linux agent job running. I want to do more testing to see if via commandline we can scope this to hourly or even sooner. I was surprised on the Schedule to only see Daily configurable.
We can choose some advanced settings here such as pre and post job scripts. We entered the connection information including address, port, login, domain, and password. Since we want to interact with our Veeam Backup & Replication server, we select it here.
Here we can select to backup the entire machine, volume, or file level.
Veeam Agent for LinuxĬan operate in the workstation mode if a commercial license that supports this mode is Protection tasks on desktop computers and laptops that run Linux OS. Workstation – a mode that offers limited capabilities that are sufficient for performing data Server mode if a commercial license that supports this mode is installed on the protected Server – a mode that provides access to all product functions and is intended for performingĭata protection tasks on servers that run Linux OS. Here I have browsed to the license file and selected Server.
I simply SCP’ed the trial license file to my /tmp directory and pointed the UI config to that file.
The UI will ask you to install the license. sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev Note I had to install the ncurses header and libs as well as reboot before this would launch. To begin the Veeam Config UI you run the command veeamconfig ui The User guide from Veeam for the Linux agent shows the syntax on various versions of Linux. The tests and screenshots below are with an Ubuntu 16.04 server. Let’s take a look at the installation process of getting the agent on a linux box and then configuring the agent to communicate with the Backup and Replication 9.5 backend server. Veeam Linux Agent Installation and Configuration Let’s take a look at the Veeam Linux Agent Installation and Configuration.
The great thing about the new Veeam agents – Linux and the soon to be released Windows agents, is they integrate with Backup and Replication 9.5.
The Linux agent is now available for trial download to take it for a spin. This helps to bridge the gap that you may have had before with using Veeam as a backup product for your virtual infrastructure and using something else for physical workloads. Today, Veeam released the Linux agent for physical Linux workloads running in your environment.