Use Veeam Backup for old version of Centos?

[billharrelson]

It has been suggested to me that the best way to move an old VM from it's current host to another is with Veeam Backup. However the VM is an old version of Centos
(Linux redhat 2.6.18-308.13.1.el5.centos.plusxen #1 SMP Tue Aug 21 19:55:02 EDT 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux)

Reading the forum articles it looks like Linux Agent 4 might do it, but probably not under Veeam Backup & Replication version 12, which is what I've installed.
Can anyone suggest a way to do this? It looks like that system can't access the rpm, even if it would work under 12, as when I try I get:
Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5 ... centosplus

Thanks for any suggestions. I know the machine is way past end of life.

[PTide]

Hi,

It looks like that system can't access the rpm

Which rpm exactly?

Unfortunately, The Agent never supported kernels before 2.6.32.
The only way to back up anything from your system using Veeam Agent is to install the agent without veeamsnap kernel module (you will have to break dependencies for that), and utilize the snapshot-less mode.

Be aware that the snapshotless mode will perform backup without a snapshot and you will not be able to use the resulting backup for BMR.

Maybe a better option would be to utilize LVM snapshots and create copies of the disks (if you are trying to avoid downtime).

Thanks!