How To: Create Ubuntu Storage Repository

[sorell.it]

In order to get this to work we had to be running Veeam 9.0.0.1715 & these commands were run on a Ubuntu 16.04 Server installation.

Run the following on the ubuntu server, this installed the required software needed to build the perl modules required by Veeam

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sudo apt-get install build-essential

Now you can install the perl modules with cpan

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sudo cpan constant Carp Cwd Data::Dumper Encode Encode::Alias Encode::Config Encode::Encoding Encode::MIME::Name Exporter Exporter::Heavy File::Path File::Spec File::Spec::Unix File::Temp List::Util Scalar::Util Socket Storable threads

Note: I actually install all the perl modules with seperate commands however it should work all as one

Now that all the modules are installed you need to enable sued to elevate without prompting for a password

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sudo visudo

And then put in the line

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%sudo   ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL

After that you should now be able to connect Veeam to a Ubuntu server

[PTide]

Hi,

Have you tried to add

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Defaults:veeamuser !requiretty

in your sudoers file for the veeamuser that you use to connect to the server?

[sorell.it]

Sorry for the crazy delayed reply, Just had the opportunity to run up another Ubuntu repo for Veeam so I tried out what you suggested and it still didn't play ball for me. Went back to using:

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%sudo   ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL

and then it started working.

[tsightler]

Just in case others read this, sudo is not required for a Linux repository, as long as the user that you are connecting with has permissions to the directory you want to use to store backups. It generally not considered best practice to provide sudo access to accounts used for Linux repositories. Far better is to create a restricted user and set the permissions on the repository directory to u+rw only by that user.