Veeam Agent for Linux [EOL] Reviews

The solution has been installed on Linux machines. 

The solution is issue-free. We are happy with it. 

The solution has been stable and reliable. 

It is scalable. 

My understanding the setup is pretty straightforward and that the onboarding wizard is pretty easy to follow. 

It's helpful for automating your infrastructure.

Overall, it has all the general features we need. The features themselves aren't necessarily unique. 

The initial setup is very easy.

It's stable and reliable. 

It can scale.

The solution is pretty much the same as what you would use for Windows. 

Currently, my company has some physical machines that cannot be virtualized; this is where Veeam Agent for Linux comes in, so it can unify the machines. Still, in the future, for the virtualization of the machines, my company plans to use only VMware.

What I found most valuable in Veeam Agent for Linux is that it can unify machines and even simplify management.

We create backups for SAP HANA servers that run on separate physical systems. For this process, we need Veeam Agent for Linux and Veeam Plug-in for SAP HANA. We integrate Veeam Agent for Linux with SAP HANA solution manager to manage the backups.

The most valuable feature of the solution is its integration with Veeam Backup & Replication console. It enables us to manage Veeam Agent. It is quite easy to use if we use the solution directly on the Linux system.

If you are using VMware, the Veeam agent simplifies the process by allowing you to submit the vSphere and the vCenter address. It then automatically discovers all virtual components.

If you have physical machines running Windows or Ubuntu, you will need to push an agent out to those servers in order to back up and recover files. The agent provides access and enables the backup process. In some cases, the agent may require a reboot or two to install it properly. However, the process is straightforward and offers numerous options for backing up file systems, drives, or even individual folders.

Veeam agent provides a lot of flexibility in terms of specifying the backup options. Everything is backed up into a snapshot, which can be easily absorbed in VMware. While working with the Veeam agent, I found it very easy to deploy the Linux agent to one of the clients that needs to be backed up.

It is very easy to work with.

You want to ensure that the capability to perform restores is available, and we were able to restore with the Linux agent without any issues. 

We used the agent to perform backups that were written directly to tape, bypassing the disk, and we were able to retrieve the data directly from the tape or perform local restores. 

The flexibility and user-friendliness of Veeam make it very IT operations-friendly.

With Veeam, end-users can even perform their own recoveries, but we did not have that feature enabled, as all backups and restores were handled by the IT operations team.

Veeam Agent for Linux backup and recovery.

Veeam Agent for Linux's most valuable feature is the compatibility with virtual machines, such as VMware.

You can install it on a physical machine or on a virtual machine. It's used basically the same way a company would use Veeam Agent for Windows - except it has no reporting.

The only use case that I will use it is if you do have Veeam Backup and Replication installed and you have a Linux virtual machine. That is the only place where I will use it since it's the only way for you actually to make successful recoveries.

The only thing I really like about it is that you can deploy it from Backup and Replication onto a virtual Linux machine. Once you start working with the physical Linux machine, it's not compatible, and it doesn't work. Don't even try it.

Veeam Backup automatically takes full image backups, so we don't need an agent installed on a separate system. 

I've been using Veeam Agent for more than 10 years.