Agent backup on virtual server

[Kei]

Hi

I understand agent backup is usually used on physical server.
But I would like to also use agent backup for virtual server (vSphere and Hyper-V environment).

Is there any restriction?

Best regards

[Mildur]

Hi Kei

No. Agent backups of VMs is fully supported.
You can even restore a backup taken by the agent directly as a vm.

Could you maybe share the reason why you want to use the agent for the backup instead of using vm backup jobs? Using vm backup jobs should be the preferred method.

Thanks
Fabian

[Kei]

Hi Fabian

Thank you for reply.
I understood.

On remote site, there is also virtual environment(vSphere) and I would like to backup VM using Veeam server on AWS EC2.
* Remote site and AWS are connected by VPN.

I should deploy Veeam component to virtual environment, but there is no resource in virtual environment.
So I would like to utilize the agent backup.

best regards.

[Mildur]

Hi Kei

Ok, thanks for explaining.
This is one of the scenarios in which I would also use an agent.

Thanks
Fabian

[jamcool]

We use agent even on our virtual machines where we only want to backup certain drive letters (Window servers). We have many Microsoft SQL servers and a separate product that backups the databases (they are on their own drive letters). To prevent duplicate backups, we do not backup those drive letters with Veeam agent. Another example is we have several SAS servers which have what they call Temp SAS drive letter. Customer does not want it backed up (drives are huge) so we use agent to exclude those drive letters too. The only way to exclude these drive letters without the agent (backing up via vCenter) is to exclude the SCSI ID of the drive. Not very practical.