Baremetal Backup and Restore on a ProxMox/Linux Server HOST Machine using Veeam for Linux

[@mathieuleclerc4136]

I was searching for this video for so long. THANK YOU MAN!!!

[@h2dc]

You are absolutely welcome!

[@ph4se2]

Use the windows version of this agent on my physical desktops, glad there is a linux version, thanks the instructions worked great.

[@SteveMiddleton]

Hi, I've just installed this on a new node and I get the following error message when trying to back up the whole machine "Failed to create volume snapshot / failed to take volume snapshot / failed to perform backup / insufficient free space for a snapshot in a volume group: pve" Given this has worked on my previous nodes, what could the problem be please?

[@robertschnell8299]

Hi. Thanks for this great instructions. I used it for PVE 8.2.4 where i needed to change your script from #apt install veeam to #apt install blksnap veeam. Then all worked for me. 🙂

[@SyberPrepper]

This is so good and helpful. Thank you!

[@angelosnm]

I'm getting the below error when running the backup job. Any ideas? [error] Neither [blksnap] nor [veeamsnap] module was found

[@StephenDail]

FYSA, the last command after adding the Veeam repository from the .deb file before you can install Veeam is "apt update". Not apt upgrade. You need to update the package list with the new repository you just added...and then you can install Veeam.

[@richardcarter5404]

Wonder if anyone can help with a problem I have? I was able to get Veeam installed and a backup made, when I try to restore to a blank hard drive I get an error that there is not enough space on the target drive which is a 256GB SSD even though the image is only 32GB. I have tried the restore on multiple machines including the actual pc I am running ProxMox on and get the same error

[@rrschmid]

kick arse! awesome video!

[@viktornagy974]

Hello Mike! Just wondering if you have such idea for a similar software that supports ZFS. I am using my Proxmox VE with ZFS, but unfortunately Veeam does not support it. Any hint would be highly appreciated.

[@anymoustrend4074]

same issue here, did you manage to find a solution ?

[@viktornagy974]

@@anymoustrend4074 Hi. Didnt. Currently I heading to try solution from Acronis. Seems they dont have problem with ZFS.

[@ltonchis1245]

I think this video is just referring to bare metal backup ( just the ProxMox OS) for all other VM's, LXC I would assume you would use ProMox Backup Server, I know People also use Clonezilla but not sure yet about zfs

[@jurgenb771]

You can secure the VM as an image with the backup functions of proxmox. Or you can install Veeam Agent in the VM and make backups. In both cases, the file system does not matter.

[@geepeezee5030]

This works, but doesn't restore thin LVM volumes. When restoring, it restores them as thick volumes. Any way to fix this?

[@h2dc]

As far as I know it may be a limitation of Veeam itself, but I'm unsure, as I haven't ran into this particular issue.

[@BerlinTyp]

perfect solution and now I don't need PiKVM with Aomai Backupper and external SSD

[@h2dc]

Glad you found it useful!

[@crush_override]

Hi, how can i backup if my Proxmox is on zfs?

[@CoolWolf69]

Great job ... thanks for sharing!

[@h2dc]

Thanks for watching!

[@ladprzane4448]

hello，can veeam linux agent backup whole pve server with vms started?or it needs vms shutdown?

[@lanfordautomation]

Thank you for this! Just had something on my Proxmox UEFI get messed up somehow on a HAOS VM backup, and have lost everything. Don't want that to happen again so I'm shopping for options. If I wanted to use USB storage to do the backups, do I just plug it into the USB and the Veeam interface will recognize it? Or do I need to do any other steps to mount it to the device before Veeam will see it?

[@Kristian-r6w]

Hello, Thanks for your Video, I installed veeam without problems, but when I want to backup the complete device, I receyve this error: 12:57:02 Job BackupJob1 started at 2024-04-11 10:57:02 UTC 12:57:02 Preparing to backup 12:57:03 [error] Logical volume [snap_vm-103-disk-0_eunning] is not active 12:57:03 [error] Unable to backup object: [snap_vm-103-disk-0_eunning] 12:57:03 [error] Failed to perform backup 12:57:03 [error] Unable to backup some objects 12:57:03 [error] Processing finished with errors at 2024-04-11 10:57:03 UTC So Itried just to backup the Volumes, which worked. But after restoring on a new hd It is not booting ( I suppose sda1 and sda2 have not been bakuped. To overcome this I tried only to backup sda1 and sda2 with the intention to restore them aditianall, but this gives me another error: 15:12:50 Job ProxmoxBackupBoot2 started at 2024-04-11 13:12:50 UTC 15:12:50 [error] Failed to perform backup 15:12:50 [error] mount error(13): Permission denied 15:12:50 [error] Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs) and kernel log messages (dmesg) 15:12:50 [error] Processing finished with errors at 2024-04-11 13:12:50 UTC I have no clue what to do now. Even a sudo veear does not change it. Do you have any idea what to do now? Thanks

[@TheDropForged]

Thank you so much for the video. But mine failed stating that it doesn't support ZFS file system. I googled and that seems to be the case. Do you think it is at all possible? I am gutted.

[@domingoscastelhano1702]

Hi Thanks for this great tutorial .I follow all the steps but at the very end ,when i run veeam I just have a screen with failled backups and now option to start another new one .Your help will be appreciated

[@h2dc]

I haven't run into this particular issue before so I don't have much insight right away. What version of ProxMox do you have? I know that on some machines I had to uninstall/reinstall a few times to get it to work correctly.

[@domingoscastelhano1702]

@@h2dc Hi thanks for your reply .I'm running version 7.2-4 .Regards

[@mathieuleclerc4136]

Have you a discord channel or something like a forum to ask specific questions?

[@SteveMiddleton]

Thanks for this video. Very easy to setup. I have 3 Proxmodes nodes in a cluster. I assume I need to run this on each separate node?

[@luigiroma7226]

Thanks for this video. If i have a hyper-converged ceph cluster proxmox with three node, how i can do bare metal backup? Regards

[@Farang_Lifestyles]

If you were smart enough to build a complicated ceph cluster - 3 node .... you already have your 3-2-1 back up strategy.....

[@h2dc]

Not something I'm too experienced with yet, but I'd imagine you set it up like on each node separately!

[@magicmanj32]

Great video

[@h2dc]

Thanks!

[@maherkhalil007]

do you have a video for ssl?

[@h2dc]

Not at the moment, but it's definitely on ther (ever growing) list of video topics! Be sure to check out the new H2DC Discord server! discord.gg/cvSj2QGXqw

[@maherkhalil007]

@@h2dc ok, thank you

[@yuenthomas5355]

I am very happy finding this video today. I am following upto 5:35 , which is (Install required packages and linux headers) has issue, root@pve:~# apt install pve-headers squashfs-tools libisoburn1 xorriso Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package pve-headers please need some help!! 😅 Thanks!!

[@h2dc]

Hi, sorry about the later reply. It sounds like you have the wrong package repositories configured, double-check that you have the proper PVE repos, restart the machine, and try from there

[@lordos667]

Hello! Great video! i managed to install veeam and got backup schedule running on my proxmox server. there is only one (big) problem. i have a thin-lvm that veeams doesnt see at all when i get a full backup. even when i go to select partitions, i dont see the pve/data logical volume. only the vms. any info on that? :)

[@h2dc]

I haven;t run into this issue before, but it might be a limitation of Veeam itself. If you like you can head over to the H2DC Discord server and post in the tech-support channel and we can take a look at it - discord.gg/cvSj2QGXqw

[@lordos667]

@@h2dc thanks for the reply. i ended up not using veeam at all. i take backups of the vm's with proxmox, on a nas. its so easy to reinstall proxmox and restore the vm's that it didnt bother me at all. anyway, thanks again mate

[@jrrtolkin]

That's, an amazing option for bare machine backup, Thanks. I see that you also backup your VM's. Any idea how restore ProxMox server were the VM's are on NAS?

[@h2dc]

As far as I know, the locations of the VMs shouldn't matter when restoring using this method, it should act as if the hard drive was simply copied over to a new drive. Definitely let me know if there's something I'm missing.

[@scottsolomon7579]

If the VMs are not damaged and are still on the NAS then restoring the ProxMox config would just bring back those mount points and they should just show up as before.

[@Haijuken]

Can u try this with unraid system? I hope so

[@h2dc]

If I recall correctly, Unraid is Slackware based and I believe Slackware is not supported by this particular method. There may be other options available, however I am not as experienced in Unraid, so I cannot speak authoritatively on the subject.

[@Mr_ToR]

do "apt install blksnap" before "apt install veeam".

[@djchase7822]

root@Fractal:/home# apt install veeam Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package veeam Doesn't seem to work, any help with this step?

[@h2dc]

Make sure you've installed the .deb package from Veeam's website (important), then after that's done, you need to do another apt-update (also important) to update the repository information otherwise it won't be able to locate the package.

[@djchase7822]

This works for me, I think I missed the apt-upgrade* (also important) step. I followed along with you after that and started the back up. I have a few follow up questions, what interface does proxmox use when backing up via veeam, I have 10gb on my network and wanted to use that to my network share (TrueNAS). Lastly, are you able to show the share you setup on the Windows PC? just wondering, as you typed the location of the share so simple, for me I had to /mnt/share/location. Thanks again, great video! adding it to my HOWTO docs

[@djchase7822]

Answered one of my own questions, the IP address of the share, determines that network :)