This is a blog post on note-taking for V12 for Veeam Agent. Total 5 Veeam Agent
1. Veeam Agent for Windows
- Object storage support directly. License required [paid version]
- Not needed synthetic full and compact full
- Installer size decreased from 364MB to 144MB in Beta2. Easier deployment with low bandwidth
- Efficient file-level backup for changed files. Block-level efficiency with file backup and only captured changed block of the changed file. Transfer only changed blocks.
- DB changed to SQLite - low resource consumption. Previously use SQL LocalDB
2. Veeam Agent for Linux
- Direct backup to object storage
- GFS support
- Postgres log backup support - only on Linux
- Snapshot based backup with LVM snapshot - Good for distribution not supported by veeamsnap
- Non SSH mode for Linux workload. No sudo/root credential on VBR, no need for SSH on Linux, No need for long sudoers list
- Veeam Explorer for Postgres & Enterprise Manager support
3. Veeam Agent for Mac
- New UI
- Backup directly to object storage
- Backup to different location with multiple jobs
- resume backup job
4. Veeam Agent for Solaris
- Bare metal recovery
5. Veeam Agent for AIX
- Bare metal recovery
6. Cloud Native Agent for AWS & Azure [New]
- For AWS and Azure Platform
- Application-Aware processing (eg database log shipping)
- Simplify networking (no VPN/direct connection VM needed)
- Suitable for customers that lacks permission to run Veeam Backup for Amazon/Azure
- Automatic discovery via cloud provider API
- Can use machine selection/Instance ID / tag based
- Distribution repository: upload agent setup components once, registered object storage repository in AWS/Azure.
- Not supported Windows Failover Cluster
- Managed by backup server
General
- Secure Bare metal recovery with the recovery token
- for security
- valid for 24 hours per default. Will expire automatically
