Veeam Agent for Linux: Easily Backup & Restore a Linux PC! (Tutorial)

[@johanbouwer]

I enabled NFS on the drive. I now have to start all over again to see if it indeed works. Thanks a million for your help.

[@anthonydelagarde3990]

Great video! Appreciated! Great for power users and their labs as well as SMB . cheers!!

[@TheWaqaspuri]

Does that work in the KVM environment (VPS usually)?

[@antonioe5299]

Wonderful, I tried to restore my Ubuntu with recovery media. The backup file is located on a USB disc, I follow step by step the wizard but the USB disk is not in the list proposed by veeam. Do you know if it's a common problem, have I use the command line to mount the disk and restore the server?

[@oshari22]

Thanks This tutorial is good consider slowing down for future Tuts,

[@alexanderrjakhov6301]

I just did it!!! Thank you very much!! I was able to install agent for Fedora dist* Well, sync to Synology Ds920+ DSM 7 - all working!!!

[@johanbouwer]

I know that this is indeed the case. I should have mentioned earlier that I did not do that as I have no clue where to find that. I thought that it was part of your Synology NAS.

[@WunderTechTutorials]

What kind of NAS do you have? Let me do some research and I'll get back to you.

[@angelosnm]

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

[@WunderTechTutorials]

I unfortunately don't. Veeam support is great though, so they might be able to help.

[@johanbouwer]

Still an issue: I reinstalled as per your instructions, installed NFS Common, "X" NFS, accesses the drive and I get an error message "No locks available. Failed to lock file". Not sure what this means.

[@WunderTechTutorials]

I'm sorry to hear that it's not working. Unfortunately, since I don't have the hardware, I can only make suggestions as to what I think might work. That sounds like a fairly specific error so maybe some of these solutions would help? serverfault.com/questions/61594/what-does-no-locks-available-mean

[@johanbouwer]

I can see the drive on the Linux PC but it will not mount. No idea how to do that, followed many tutorials to no avail.

[@WunderTechTutorials]

Were you able to test if NFS works?

[@johanbouwer]

@@WunderTechTutorials no not really. But in the end Mint 20 failed to start up, due I am sure that i tried to follow many video installations on either Samba, cifs, and so on. So i reinstalled Mint 19.3 and this time the ethernet cable all the time connected. Low and behold after a long install and finishing up, I clicked on file and network and here is my Seagate drive and shares without me doing anything about it. So i was able to backup already. Thanks for your help.

[@gamingoutloud293]

is it possible to restore full system (root) to a specific backup while the system is running ?

[@WunderTechTutorials]

I don't believe so. Most of the system files will be locked. If you just want to restore user data, I would think that it would be possible.

[@johanbouwer]

As a newbie may I ask a question? I have Linux Mint 20. All went well until I entered NEXT this screen . What have I not done right?

[@WunderTechTutorials]

Of course! I don't see the error, but it looks like you were running into a cifs error before. Did you run this command? sudo apt-get install cifs-utils Let me know and we can continue troubleshooting!

[@johanbouwer]

@@WunderTechTutorials yes i did, version 2:6.9-ubuntu0.1

[@WunderTechTutorials]

@@johanbouwer Got it - the only other thing to check is if you've enabled SMB3 on the NAS. Do you know if you did that? Veeam will not work with SMB2 unfortunately, so you won't be able to connect to the server without SMB3 enabled. Let me know how it goes!

[@joshenyeoh5169]

Hi , may i ask if this steps are able to do for RedHat OS

[@WunderTechTutorials]

Yes! You can follow all of the video/written instructions but instead of using this command: dpkg -i ./veeam-release* && apt-get update Use this command: rpm -ivh ./veeam-release* && yum check-update Let me know if you have any trouble!

[@kasiang7405]

Faced the following error on Bare-Metal Restore. [error] Storage version [13] is not supported for read-only access [error] Failed to restore file from local backup. VFS link: [Summary.xml]. Traget fil… [error] Agent failed to process method {DataTransfer.RestoreText}

[@WunderTechTutorials]

I haven't seen that error, but it looks like it can't access the local backup file. If this is a critical issue, have you considered using Veeam support? They offer free support and they're great!

[@nimesis124]

I am facing below error: [error] XML error : error docuerment empty

[@WunderTechTutorials]

What step are you getting that error?

[@nimesis124]

@@WunderTechTutorials hey thanks for the reply.. that error has gone. I took backup of my vm and trying to create new repoca vm with backup at that place i was getting error . So i took new backup again and tried to create new replica vm from that and this time it worked. This is all testing on virtualbox

[@WunderTechTutorials]

@@nimesis124 Glad you got it working!

[@davehouser1]

This process did not work for us. The restore media boots to a black screen on our dell servers, no way around this. Need to recover directly from the agent. Veeam support has no idea why the recovery media boots to a black screen , tested with agent 4.0.0 and 5.0.0. This is on Dell R740X servers. Also the recovery media is not supported with PXE boot either.

[@WunderTechTutorials]

I'm sorry to hear that. Unfortunately, if Veeam support was no help, I'm afraid there's nothing I can say that will help :(

[@johanbouwer]

Seagate Black Armor 220, or a HP Mediasmart server EX470, Either one will do.

[@WunderTechTutorials]

From what I can find, you are having trouble because you're trying to use SMB. it looks like on your Seagate Black Armor, NFS is enabled by default. Rather than using SMB (when you configure the back up job), can you try and set it up using NFS and see if that works? I think that your software is set up properly, it's just that the NAS isn't configured the same way that a Synology is. Let me know how it goes!