Feature request: Guest processing

[zahradnik]

Currenty there are no options to backup SQL Servers or at least to run scripts pre, post backup.
I am aware that you are now supporting way too many hypervisors to support these advanced features on all of them, so what I am asking is whether this could be achieved "agent based" way.
Currently the agent is too standalone - Jobs, Notifications are configured there, which requires Backup admin to access all servers individually. For guest processing I can imagine the same scenario - VBR will just trigger remote Agent task to process eg. Log backups.

[PTide]

Hi,

Would you provide more details?

SQL - is it MS or MySQL? Windows-based on Linux-based?

Thanks!

[rteglgaa]

+1 for application-aware processing on OLVM so that Oracle databases can be backed up as part of the VM-backup process. The only reason many customers are running OLVM is because of Oracle Database licensing rules. That means there's a big chance the VM's on OLVM are running databases and that's one of the big reasons why backup is needed in the first place.

Without application-aware processing the OLVM integration i Veeam is useless to us unfortunately

[AlexL]

+1 from me, anyone any thoughts? use a vbr managed agent on the olvm vm perhaps?

[cody.ault]

For VMs that need application aware backups, yes, agents are the best options for those VMs today. We are looking at this feature for more platforms in the future.
You can use Agent backups paired with the Restore to oVirt option to get application consistent backups/log processing today without having to worry about the bare-metal recovery process.

[AlexL]

The issue with an agent is direct ip connectivity to the vbr server, which in a multi tenant / msp environment not preferable.
A compromised customer vm means that the vbr server is more directly vulnerable for attack, easier lateral movement.
How would you implement this securely?

[cody.ault]

I would probably need to know more about the architecture (the hypervisor environment/how you've implemented multitenancy there as well as how you've built the Veeam infrastructure and what kind of access you're exposing to customers. It might be better to post this question in the Service Provider forum.