Baremetal Backup and Restore on a ProxMox/Linux Server HOST Machine using Veeam for Linux

Veeam login/create account:

Link to Veeam Agent for Linux:

Link to Putty for SSH:

Link to WinSCP for SFTP

Videos referenced in this upload:

Commands:
Apt upgrade and update
# apt update
# apt upgrade

Install required packages and linux headers
# apt install pve-headers squashfs-tools libisoburn1 xorriso
# apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)

Change directory to home (or wherever you placed the veeam .deb file
# cd /home

Install veeam repository
# dpkg -i ./veeam-release*

Anotehr apt upgrade
# apt upgrade

Install Veeam
#apt install veeam

Run Veeam
#veeam

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[mathieuleclerc]

I was searching for this video for so long. THANK YOU MAN!!!

[phse]

Use the windows version of this agent on my physical desktops, glad there is a linux version, thanks the instructions worked great.

[BerlinTyp]

perfect solution and now I don't need PiKVM with Aomai Backupper and external SSD

[robertschnell]

Hi.
Thanks for this great instructions.
I used it for PVE 8.2.4 where i needed to change your script
from #apt install veeam
to #apt install blksnap veeam.
Then all worked for me.
🙂

[SyberPrepper]

This is so good and helpful. Thank you!

[lanfordautomation]

Thank you for this! Just had something on my Proxmox UEFI get messed up somehow on a HAOS VM backup, and have lost everything. Don't want that to happen again so I'm shopping for options.

If I wanted to use USB storage to do the backups, do I just plug it into the USB and the Veeam interface will recognize it? Or do I need to do any other steps to mount it to the device before Veeam will see it?

[mathieuleclerc]

Have you a discord channel or something like a forum to ask specific questions?

[SteveMiddleton]

Thanks for this video. Very easy to setup. I have 3 Proxmodes nodes in a cluster. I assume I need to run this on each separate node?

[epithesi_sobrero]

I'm getting the below error when running the backup job. Any ideas?

[error] Neither [blksnap] nor [veeamsnap] module was found

[viktornagy]

Hello Mike! Just wondering if you have such idea for a similar software that supports ZFS. I am using my Proxmox VE with ZFS, but unfortunately Veeam does not support it.
Any hint would be highly appreciated.

[ladprzane]

hello，can veeam linux agent backup whole pve server with vms started?or it needs vms shutdown?

[richardcarter]

Wonder if anyone can help with a problem I have? I was able to get Veeam installed and a backup made, when I try to restore to a blank hard drive I get an error that there is not enough space on the target drive which is a 256GB SSD even though the image is only 32GB. I have tried the restore on multiple machines including the actual pc I am running ProxMox on and get the same error

[crush_override]

Hi, how can i backup if my Proxmox is on zfs?

[geepeezee]

This works, but doesn't restore thin LVM volumes. When restoring, it restores them as thick volumes. Any way to fix this?

[Kristian-rw]

Hello, Thanks for your Video, I installed veeam without problems, but when I want to backup the complete device, I receyve this error:
12:57:02 Job BackupJob1 started at 2024-04-11 10:57:02 UTC

12:57:02 Preparing to backup
12:57:03 [error] Logical volume [snap_vm-103-disk-0_eunning] is not active
12:57:03 [error] Unable to backup object: [snap_vm-103-disk-0_eunning]
12:57:03 [error] Failed to perform backup
12:57:03 [error] Unable to backup some objects
12:57:03 [error] Processing finished with errors at 2024-04-11 10:57:03 UTC

So Itried just to backup the Volumes, which worked. But after restoring on a new hd It is not booting ( I suppose sda1 and sda2 have not been bakuped.

To overcome this I tried only to backup sda1 and sda2 with the intention to restore them aditianall, but this gives me another error:
15:12:50 Job ProxmoxBackupBoot2 started at 2024-04-11 13:12:50 UTC
15:12:50 [error] Failed to perform backup
15:12:50 [error] mount error(13): Permission denied
15:12:50 [error] Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs) and kernel log messages (dmesg)
15:12:50 [error] Processing finished with errors at 2024-04-11 13:12:50 UTC

I have no clue what to do now. Even a sudo veear does not change it.

Do you have any idea what to do now? Thanks

[jrrtolkin]

That's, an amazing option for bare machine backup, Thanks.
I see that you also backup your VM's. Any idea how restore ProxMox server were the VM's are on NAS?

[TheDropForged]

Thank you so much for the video. But mine failed stating that it doesn't support ZFS file system. I googled and that seems to be the case. Do you think it is at all possible? I am gutted.

[domingoscastelhano]

Hi Thanks for this great tutorial .I follow all the steps but at the very end, when i run veeam I just have a screen with failled backups and now option to start another new one .Your help will be appreciated

[luigiroma]

Thanks for this video. If i have a hyper-converged ceph cluster proxmox with three node, how i can do bare metal backup? Regards

[lordos]

Hello! Great video! i managed to install veeam and got backup schedule running on my proxmox server. there is only one (big) problem. i have a thin-lvm that veeams doesnt see at all when i get a full backup. even when i go to select partitions, i dont see the pve/data logical volume. only the vms. any info on that? :)