Veeam Agent for Linux [EOL] Room for Improvement

David Villota - PeerSpot reviewer
EMEA Hosting Engineer at Yanfeng Automotive

I've never had to troubleshoot any issue. 

The pricing could be lowered if possible. 

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PB
Consultant at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

There is a constant stream of upgrades being released for Veeam Agent, and there is a strong push toward cloud integration. Overall, my experience with Veeam Agent was very satisfying. While we did encounter some issues, particularly with large servers and backup time frames, there were no problems with the Linux agent itself.

Technical support could be improved.

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JO
IT Data Center Infrastructure Technical Team Lead at Dr. Sulaiman Al-Habib Medical Group

The solution has to line up with Red Hat so that they can improve their agents as well. If they are not tied up with the RHCE, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, they will not be able to identify what the new features of Red Hat are.

In new releases, I hope they can support Oracle cloud. Right now they support Azure and Amazon Web Services.

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Veeam Agent for Linux [EOL]
March 2024
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JC
Director tecnico at Blemia

Veeam Agent for Linux is a temporary product for my company. While my company can't virtualize the machines, it's using Veeam Agent for Linux, but I expect there won't be a need to use it in the future, so I don't focus much on what other features need to be added to it.

One problem in Veeam Agent for Linux is that you can't use your license for all your machines because you don't have a virtual machine, so if you're going to add machines and scale, you'd need to pay extra.

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JS
IT Solution Architect at Altopro

More Linux systems should be made compatible with the solution.

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Muhammad Ibtehaj - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Solutions Architect at Relacom

There is a compatibility issue with HCI.

I have a client that uses SAN for HCI and they have an issue where they find it isn't compatible with SAN for HCI. In the future, it would be helpful if it was. 

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Kevin Honde - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Solution Architect at Econet Wireless Zimbabwe

The price of Veeam Agent for Linux could be reduced.

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MA
Technical Presales Consultant/ Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

It would be much better if more applications were supported on the Linux side. For example, their agent for Windows not only can back up the Windows machine, but it can also back up Active Directory for granular restore, SQL servers, Exchange, Oracle, SharePoint, etc. When it comes to Linux, only Oracle databases are supported. There are workarounds, though. There are other ways to perform application consistency or transaction consistent backups. For example, you can configure having a backup job to run a script to save the laws of the database and store them on specific storage. So more applications support would definitely be of great value because not everyone is using Oracle. Some people are using MySQL or MongoDB and they would like to see a plug and play native integration built into the tool as well.  There are plenty of applications in the market these days that are becoming mainstream. People are not only using vendor projects, but they may also use open source projects, which are gaining a lot of popularity.

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AA
IT Manager at Jawwal Pay

In the future, the solution should make sure it's compatible with Unix versions like HP/UX and AIX.

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RC
Senior Engineer at MRB Secure

There's a lot that needs to be changed. I'm not even going to go into the small specifics of it; however, I would say reporting is probably the biggest thing that needs improvement.

It has no cloud backup feature. You can't back up anywhere outside of your local network.

The solution is expensive.

Technical support often has little insight as to what is happening with the product.

It is not really scalable. 

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WC
Service Director at scsi co.,ltd

The solution is pretty stable right now, however, we believe that the solution could be made to be even more stable.

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FM
System Administrator at Bakhresa Group of companies

I would appreciate if Veeam Agent for particular platforms, like Linux, Windows or iOS, is integrated on the same Veeam B&R console. 

For example, if someone wants to use the agent to backup the physical server or standalone server, the option should be there on the Veeam B&R installation software and available on the Veeam Availability Console as well, for simple and easy Agent installation

Also during the Agent Backup, the progress status not displayed on VBR console until job is finished, we should be able to monitor the progress on the console rather than on standalone server only

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AS
Chief Technology Officer at Triana Business Solutions Lda

I would like to be able to take care of more than just the virtual environment with this solution. 

In terms of the physical environment, I'd like them to integrate it with other kinds of solutions. We don't just work with Microsoft or Linux, but other kinds of infrastructure data as well.

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BT
CTO at Pronet Security

We are currently waiting for the continuous backup process.

The continuous backup process is not applied to Veeam.

Veeam must have a good solution for physical backup. On the Linux side, it is using an NFS folder sharing for files, but there are some security difficulties when using NFS, so we have issues using Linux file restore.

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PL
ABP Food Group Infrastructure team lead at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

It could use deduplication features.

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MH
System Engineer at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

There isn't much to improve. They just need to follow the trend or the development of other Linux products. Follow in terms of making the product compatible with new versions of Linux. They just need to include as many versions for Linux as possible.

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SA
Consultant at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

I would like to be able to install Veeam directly to Linux instead of having to go through a Windows server.

If I can make the VBR (Veeam Backup Replication) a proxy on Linux instead of Windows it would be an improvement in regards to security.

Also, I would like to see Veeam take a backup for shares. If they can take backups from storage then they should be able to backup up for just shares.

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it_user801057 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I am really satisfied with this solution and I don't see anything that needs to improve.

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BJ
Backup Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

The integration needs improvement. It should be easier for my admins.

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ME
BSS Platform Team Leader at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

In the next version, I would like to see inclusion for functionality and an improved operating system. 

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KS
Lead Senior Project Manager with 51-200 employees

Right now, the solution has responded to our needs, and there are also lots of new functionalities that we are not even yet, so I can't speak to features that may be missing. For us, it works very well.

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Buyer's Guide
Veeam Agent for Linux [EOL]
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Veeam Agent for Linux [EOL]. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,386 professionals have used our research since 2012.