A couple of weeks ago I was lucky enough to be in London attending the Veeam Vanguard Symposium organised and hosted by the Veeam Evangelist Team headed by Rick Vanover. The week was book-ended by the VeeamOn Forum at which I was invited to be part of a panel with other Vanguards hosted by Rick. The discussion was varied and the panel discussed a number of topics relating to backups, cloud, certification and all things Veeam covering multiple technologies ranging from VMware, Microsoft to Hyper-Scale clouds and certifications.
The session was recorded and is now available as a podcast which is embedded below.
Thanks to @Cragdoo @DaveKawula @SuperCristal1@Lost_Signal for making the panel fun and engaging.
Veeam Agent for Linux:
Big news also this week with Veeam releasing the eagerly anticipated public beta for their Linux backup product. This was first announced at VeeamOn in Las Vegas last year and the Vanguards got the low down on the product during the London week..including information about the change of name from Endpoint to Agent. It’s exciting for Veeam to have this as an offering as it acts to complete their existing product set to include native physical or virtual Linux platforms.
Veeam Agent for Linux is a solution that is able to perform image-based backups from inside the guest, both at the file level and the volume level. True incremental backup is enabled by Veeam’s proprietary CBT (change block tracking) driver, a dynamically loadable kernel module
I literally just downloaded and installed in the last five minutes and already have it running on one of my Lab Ubuntu VMs. There are some great applications of this agent when you think about futures around extending the backup repository out to Cloud Connect Backup endpoints. You can’t backup to a Veeam Backup & Repository Server just yet in this beta.
For more information head to the Veeam Blog Post here. And head here to join the public beta.
References:
https://www.veeam.com/blog/veeam-backup-for-linux-beta-is-available.html
