If, like in my example, the backup to be used is not stored locally, you need to configure the network. The recovery media starts the main UI automatically, offering users different choices:
#Veeam backup for linux iso
Using the ISO image as the boot media, the Veeam Recovery Media is started: For this scenario, you first need to boot your Linux server using the recovery media that you downloaded from the same location of the installable software. It’s up to you! Volume restoresįile restores are certainly going to be the most common operations, but there will be times when a restore of an entire volume is needed. More skilled users would prefer to use the command line, or a different tool. Veeam Agent for Linux shows the available backups, how many restore points are stored into the backup itself (one in this example), and once I hit enter twice to select and use the restore point the backup file is mounted in /mnt/backup:īecause every Linux administrator has different and preferred ways to restore files and folders, so instead of forcing people to learn another interface or procedure, we decided to leave this choice to our users.įor example, you can use the famous Midnight Commander (“mc”) available in many Linux distributions to restore the files you need from the restore location: You can see in the bottom part, where all the commands are listed, there is a to Recover Files. We can start the interface and see the successful backup session we completed before: Using the same simple command line as for the backup: In the previous blog post, we ended with a successful backup file, safely stored in a NFS server: But obviously the final goal of every backup is to do a restore, and this is the topic of today’s post.
#Veeam backup for linux how to
In the previous posts of this short series, we announced the immediate availability of Veeam Agent for Linux and showed everyone how to install the software and create the first backup.
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