LAN free backup for physical Linux server

[sani]

Hi guys

Does anyone knows can i create LAN-free backup from physical Linux server with veeam backup?
i presented 10 TB to Linux server and installed Linux agent but backup uses from network and slows down Linux.

can you help?

[PTide]

Hi,

Basically you need to configure a backup in such way that it uses the storage as a local target. How is that 10TB storage connected, is it accessible by the operating system locally?

Thanks.

[sani]

thanks for your reply PTide

something like Direct SAN?
i presented 10TB just to a physical linux server not Veeam backup. if i present same LUN to backup server, veeam uses from proxy ?

thanks.

[PTide]

There are two options:

1) Configure backup job in the local UI of the Linux Agent and choose the 10 TB storage as a destination.
2) Configure Veeam Agent for Linux backup job on Veeam Backup and Replication server:

- select "Managed by agent" mode
- choose "Volume level backup" mode
- specify items you'd like to backup. Make sure that you leave the 10 TB storage outside the scope.
- select the storage as the destination

Thanks

[sani]

Hi PTide

i'm in trouble really.i review again my case here:

1)I have a physical linux server with 10 TB LUN(from emc).
2)I have a physical veeam bachup server and i presented same 10 TB to it and my backup server can see the lun in disk management in offline mode.
3)Installed veeam linux agent on physical linux server.
NOW:
i can backup linux server with "managed by server" and it uses from Network and while i trying to change backup mode to "managed by agent" it failes.

what did i wrong?

Thankes

[PTide]

<...> and i presented same 10 TB to it and my backup server can see the lun in disk management in offline mode.

Why did you do that?

i can backup linux server with "managed by server" and it uses from Network

That's correct - "managed by server" mode assumes that you send backup data to VBR repository via Network.

and while i trying to change backup mode to "managed by agent" it failes.

What's the error that it gives you?

Thanks

[sani]

Hi

Error:

Cannot send backup job configuration to "linux server IP". Error:failed to execute agent management command setUnmanagedconfig. Error: failed to connect to the "backup server IP:10006"

Thanks

[PTide]

So, in other words, "managed by server" mode works fine with the linux machine, but it cannot be switched "managed by agent" and throws the "failed to connect to the "backup server IP:10006" error. If so, then kindly contact our support team directly so they can investigate, and post your case ID.

Thank you

[sani]

i reinstalled everything. and finally i backed up from network. i configured another job with Managed By Agent and after starting that,it finishes about 30 second after.


job started at 12:40:05
job finished at 12:40:28

what's the meaning?why backup does not start?

thanks.

[PTide]

What's the job's status? Is it "success" or "error"? Did it produce any backup files? Are you sure it was a backup job that you saw? It could have been a protection group rescan session which is not supposed to run for long and produce backups. Does the job log contain anything else except those two lines?

Thanks