Backup location on a Windows based machine

[kpl]

Hello Community,

i just installed Veeam Backup for Linux 1.0.0.499-1 on Suse Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1 (Gnome 3.10.2). Installation ran through without any problems although DKMS was a bit tricky though.

Now I want to backup a VM and save it on a windows based machine, like where all our Hyper-V Veeam backups are stored.
When I get to the point for Location -> Server/Directory I put in the IP and the shared folder. But it wont be able to store it there. "mount system call failed Unable mount device [...]"

Any tips for me how I get this done?

Thanks in advance.

Greetings.

Kay

[nielsengelen]

Can you mount the CIFS share on other servers without problems? Do you have the cifs utils package installed and if so can you try a test mount on the server?

[kpl]

I'm verry sorry for the late response.

I still stuck with this issue that I can't store the backup on a Windows share.

Now I'm using the Linux Agent Beta2.
After I start the backupjob it says follwing Errors:
Failed to create volume snapshot
Child execution has failed, Exit code: [1].
Failed to load module [veeamsnap] with Parameters [deferiocache=0 debuglogging=0].
Failed to perform backup

veeamsnap Version 1.0.0.678
veeam suse 1.0.0.678

Had Problems while installing veeam suse with ncurses-libs... installed it with --nodep

Any tips or suggestions!?

Thanks in advance

Greetings
Kay

[PTide]

Hi,

Please find /etc/modprobe.d/unsupported-modules and change the allow_unsupported_modules from 0 to 1. There is another ncurses package for SUSE called libncurses5, thanks for heads up!



Thanks

[kpl]

Hi

thank you for your reply.

I do find /etc/modprobe.d/ but there is no unsupported-modules.

I did install those libcurses5 packages already and also libcurses6... meanwhile I installed all libcurses which are available for sle12 to fix this issue but no success.

Info:
The backupjob creates on my Windows based share at least Folders with the correct Name but with no Content.

Thank you for your help

[PTide]

The backupjob creates on my Windows based share at least Folders with the correct Name but with no Content.

That's expected since VAL is not able to load kernel module.

I do find /etc/modprobe.d/ but there is no unsupported-modules.

Do you still use SLES 12? Please list the content of modprobe.d directory.

Thanks

[kpl]

Sorry, my bad... I was in the wrong Directory. I found it and edited like you said.
Jup, it's SLE12.

After I made the Change. The backupjob seems to be running. Im waiting to finish it.

Thank you very much.

[davidbellido]

llo,

I need install this agent on a physical server with Oracle Linux 6.5 preinstalled.

# cat /etc/issue
Oracle Linux Server release 6.5
# uname -m
x86_64

I have installed veeam-1.0.0.944-1.el6.x86_64.rpm + veeam-release-el6-1.0-1.x86_64.rpm
No errors in installation, but when doing the backup I get this message

Backup: entire machine
Destination: shared folder on DataDomain (credentials OK)
Errors:
22:30:08 [error] Failed to perform backup
22:30:08 [error] Child execution has failed. Exit code: [1]
22:30:08 [error] Failed to load module [veeamsnap] with parameters [zer..

I cant read entire message. Some help, please?
How could I reinstall veeamsnap?

Thank you

[PTide]

@davidbellido,

Please make sure that you've allowed the kernel module to be loaded, check this post.

Thanks