Backup Linux Red Hat VM & Linux MS SQL VM

[asifganai]

Hi All,
I would like to know if it is possible to backup Linux Red Hat VM as a whole with Veeam and to backup Linux MS SQL VM. Any guidance would be much appreciated.
Regards
Asif Ali

[PetrM]

Hello Asif,

You can back up any VM, I'd suggest to have a look at this quick start guide. I'd also recommend to consider VMware Tools quiescence and pre-freeze/post-thaw scripts to bring file system and application data to a consistent state on Linux based VMs.

Thanks!

[asifganai]

Basically the scenario is as following.
MSSQL database running on a Linux Red Hat Virtual Machine. I need to backup both the VM and the database residing over.
Will VMware Tools quiescence help here or you suggest taking backup via linux agent? Please share your suggestions.

[Mildur]

Linux doesn‘t have VSS Integration.
MS SQL on Linux will not be covered from VmWare tools Quiscense.

The Veeam supported way is to start a script which stops the sql services before the backup. Or write a script to export database dumps to a second disk. You can then backup this disk with Veeam.
But there is no Hot Application consistent backup of mssql on linux Server with Veeam VM or Veeam Agent.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/re ... d-versions

Linux does not provide a VSS framework and therefore SQL Writer is not available on Linux