Veeam Agent for Linux [EOL] Reviews

The solution has been installed on Linux machines. 

The solution is issue-free. We are happy with it. 

The solution has been stable and reliable. 

It is scalable. 

My understanding the setup is pretty straightforward and that the onboarding wizard is pretty easy to follow. 

It's helpful for automating your infrastructure.

Overall, it has all the general features we need. The features themselves aren't necessarily unique. 

The initial setup is very easy.

It's stable and reliable. 

It can scale.

The solution is pretty much the same as what you would use for Windows. 

I'm a pre-sales engineer, so I'm basically supporting our partner. We're an IT distributor. There are many inquiries these days looking for backup solutions for Linux, so we made it for Linux. This tool already uses Linux, instead of a backup administrator needing manual workloads to backup the Linux machine. You can deploy this agent remotely, from a backup server. You just have to enable flash and pull and check the compatibility of Linux with big machines and you can remotely deploy it and start backing up in no time. 

Our backup is pretty plain and simple. We can back up the entire machine so that you can be able to restore from bare metal in case of loss of the entire machine. You have the option also to restore single files, including backup of the Oracle database. It supports a wide range of Linux distributions but because Linux is an entire world on its own, with many distributions and cable versions, there will always be some Linux distribution with kernel versions that are not supported. However, there is a big, diverse sets of Linux kernel versions that are supported.

I used both deployment models, the stand-alone mode model and the one deployed from the backup server.

The product has drastically improved. Veeam never used to have any Agents, whether for Linux or Windows. They were strictly focusing on virtual environments. Even within virtual environments, they were strictly focused on Hyper-V VMware. Now, however, with the addition of agents, it helps a lot. Many environments, due to constraints with the received design or performance, prefer to go with certain workloads to be physical. Now the trend in Saudi Arabia is to migrate workloads to Linux since they somehow think it's more secure, although that's a debatable argument. There are also a lot of Oracle databases being deployed on Linux nowadays, so it does come of value there.

We use this solution for our Linux backup.

This solution provides us with an RPO within fifteen minutes, which is unlike any other product. I would estimate this as a fifty percent improvement.

Currently, my company has some physical machines that cannot be virtualized; this is where Veeam Agent for Linux comes in, so it can unify the machines. Still, in the future, for the virtualization of the machines, my company plans to use only VMware.

What I found most valuable in Veeam Agent for Linux is that it can unify machines and even simplify management.

We create backups for SAP HANA servers that run on separate physical systems. For this process, we need Veeam Agent for Linux and Veeam Plug-in for SAP HANA. We integrate Veeam Agent for Linux with SAP HANA solution manager to manage the backups.

The most valuable feature of the solution is its integration with Veeam Backup & Replication console. It enables us to manage Veeam Agent. It is quite easy to use if we use the solution directly on the Linux system.

If you are using VMware, the Veeam agent simplifies the process by allowing you to submit the vSphere and the vCenter address. It then automatically discovers all virtual components.

If you have physical machines running Windows or Ubuntu, you will need to push an agent out to those servers in order to back up and recover files. The agent provides access and enables the backup process. In some cases, the agent may require a reboot or two to install it properly. However, the process is straightforward and offers numerous options for backing up file systems, drives, or even individual folders.

Veeam agent provides a lot of flexibility in terms of specifying the backup options. Everything is backed up into a snapshot, which can be easily absorbed in VMware. While working with the Veeam agent, I found it very easy to deploy the Linux agent to one of the clients that needs to be backed up.

It is very easy to work with.

You want to ensure that the capability to perform restores is available, and we were able to restore with the Linux agent without any issues. 

We used the agent to perform backups that were written directly to tape, bypassing the disk, and we were able to retrieve the data directly from the tape or perform local restores. 

The flexibility and user-friendliness of Veeam make it very IT operations-friendly.

With Veeam, end-users can even perform their own recoveries, but we did not have that feature enabled, as all backups and restores were handled by the IT operations team.

Veeam Agent for Linux backup and recovery.

Veeam Agent for Linux's most valuable feature is the compatibility with virtual machines, such as VMware.