Backing physical Solaris 10 box

[runiuksp]

Hi,

Is there a way to backup a physical Solaris 10 server with Veeam B&R version 9.0 ?

Please advise

[Vitaliy S.]

Veeam B&R can be used to back up virtual machines only. Thanks!

[runiuksp]

I see. How can it be backed up then?

[Vitaliy S.]

You can try to use any native backup tools (if available) or virtualize this server and then use Veeam B&R to protect this VM.

[runiuksp]

Hi,

Virtualization is not possible.

Is there a Veeam Endpoint client for Solaris 10 ?

[Vitaliy S.]

Neither Veeam Endpoint Backup nor Veeam Agent for Linux supports Solaris OS.

[runiuksp]

Any Veeam product supports this?

[veremin]

You cannot backup it with any Veeam product, unless it's virtualized. Thanks.

[runiuksp]

I see. What about just the file system? We've mapped LUNs on SAN that host the database and we need to back this up

[veremin]

You can try to add the server to the list of managed servers and then use File Copy job. However, this job is not incremental one, meaning it performs full copy each time. So, I'm not sure how applicable you'll find this approach. Thanks.

[dellock6]

How can you add a solaris machine to the managed servers?

[veremin]

Must have hurried up while posting my previous reply. Indeed, Solaris machine cannot be added to the managed servers as of now. Thanks.

[PTide]

I see. What about just the file system? We've mapped LUNs on SAN that host the database and we need to back this up

UFS and ZFS filesystems used by Solaris are designed to not be taken offline, I'm sure that there exist(s) some native tool(s) to backup Solaris box. Please check oracle sysadmin guide for more info.

Thanks