What needs improvement with Veeam Agent for Linux?

More Linux systems should be made compatible with the solution.

There is a constant stream of upgrades being released for Veeam Agent, and there is a strong push toward cloud integration. Overall, my experience with Veeam Agent was very satisfying. While we did encounter some issues, particularly with large servers and backup time frames, there were no problems with the Linux agent itself. Technical support could be improved.

There's a lot that needs to be changed. I'm not even going to go into the small specifics of it; however, I would say reporting is probably the biggest thing that needs improvement. It has no cloud backup feature. You can't back up anywhere outside of your local network. The solution is expensive. Technical support often has little insight as to what is happening with the product. It is not really scalable.

There is a compatibility issue with HCI. I have a client that uses SAN for HCI and they have an issue where they find it isn't compatible with SAN for HCI. In the future, it would be helpful if it was.

Veeam Agent for Linux is a temporary product for my company. While my company can't virtualize the machines, it's using Veeam Agent for Linux, but I expect there won't be a need to use it in the future, so I don't focus much on what other features need to be added to it. One problem in Veeam Agent for Linux is that you can't use your license for all your machines because you don't have a virtual machine, so if you're going to add machines and scale, you'd need to pay extra.

The price of Veeam Agent for Linux could be reduced.

The solution is pretty stable right now, however, we believe that the solution could be made to be even more stable.

The integration needs improvement. It should be easier for my admins.

There isn't much to improve. They just need to follow the trend or the development of other Linux products. Follow in terms of making the product compatible with new versions of Linux. They just need to include as many versions for Linux as possible.

I would like to be able to install Veeam directly to Linux instead of having to go through a Windows server. If I can make the VBR (Veeam Backup Replication) a proxy on Linux instead of Windows it would be an improvement in regards to security. Also, I would like to see Veeam take a backup for shares. If they can take backups from storage then they should be able to backup up for just shares.

We are currently waiting for the continuous backup process. The continuous backup process is not applied to Veeam. Veeam must have a good solution for physical backup. On the Linux side, it is using an NFS folder sharing for files, but there are some security difficulties when using NFS, so we have issues using Linux file restore.

I am really satisfied with this solution and I don't see anything that needs to improve.

In the next version, I would like to see inclusion for functionality and an improved operating system.

I would like to be able to take care of more than just the virtual environment with this solution. In terms of the physical environment, I'd like them to integrate it with other kinds of solutions. We don't just work with Microsoft or Linux, but other kinds of infrastructure data as well.

It would be much better if more applications were supported on the Linux side. For example, their agent for Windows not only can back up the Windows machine, but it can also back up Active Directory for granular restore, SQL servers, Exchange, Oracle, SharePoint, etc. When it comes to Linux, only Oracle databases are supported. There are workarounds, though. There are other ways to perform application consistency or transaction consistent backups. For example, you can configure having a backup job to run a script to save the laws of the database and store them on specific storage. So more applications support would definitely be of great value because not everyone is using Oracle. Some people are using MySQL or MongoDB and they would like to see a plug and play native integration built into the tool as well. There are plenty of applications in the market these days that are becoming mainstream. People are not only using vendor projects, but they may also use open source projects, which are gaining a lot of popularity.

It could use deduplication features.

I would appreciate if Veeam Agent for particular platforms, like Linux, Windows or iOS, is integrated on the same Veeam B&R console. For example, if someone wants to use the agent to backup the physical server or standalone server, the option should be there on the Veeam B&R installation software and available on the Veeam Availability Console as well, for simple and easy Agent installation Also during the Agent Backup, the progress status not displayed on VBR console until job is finished, we should be able to monitor the progress on the console rather than on standalone server only

In the future, the solution should make sure it's compatible with Unix versions like HP/UX and AIX.

Right now, the solution has responded to our needs, and there are also lots of new functionalities that we are not even yet, so I can't speak to features that may be missing. For us, it works very well.

The solution has to line up with Red Hat so that they can improve their agents as well. If they are not tied up with the RHCE, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, they will not be able to identify what the new features of Red Hat are. In new releases, I hope they can support Oracle cloud. Right now they support Azure and Amazon Web Services.