About Backup

You can use Veeam Agent for IBM AIX to create file-level backups of your machine. Veeam Agent for IBM AIX lets you create backups of the following types:

• Full backup — a copy of the entire data that you choose to back up.
• Incremental backup — a copy of the backed-up data than contains only new or changed data relatively to the last backup session.

You can back up the entire image of your machine, back up individual directories with files or choose to back up individual WPARs.

Veeam Agent for IBM AIX copies backed-up data at a file level. It retrieves data that you choose to back up and stores it in backup files in the target location.

You can set up Veeam Agent for IBM AIX to create multiple backups — with individual backup scope or in different locations. You can create on-demand backups of your data manually at any time you need.

Configuration Backup

During backup, Veeam Agent for IBM AIX does not automatically detect the current configuration of the backed-up machine. Veeam Agent for IBM AIX performs this operation only once, when you install the product on the machine whose data you want to back up. As part of the installation process, Veeam Agent for IBM AIX records the machine configuration and saves it to the /VEEAMCFG/disrec.xml configuration file.

Subsequently, when you perform backup, you must record the machine configuration manually as part of the data backup procedure. You can include the resulting configuration file in the backup or save it to an NFS directory.

Veeam Agent for IBM AIX uses the recorded configuration during the machine recovery to adjust configuration of the backed-up system so that the system can boot and operate on the machine where you restore data. The configuration file that you use to restore your machine must contain up-to-date information about the backed-up system configuration. Thus, you must record the system configuration every time the system configuration of your machine changes. For example:

• After a network interface or another device was added to or removed from the machine.
• After disk partition settings were changed for the machine.
• After a volume or a volume group was added or removed.

In This Section

• Full Backup
• Incremental Backup
• Backup Selection
• Backup Location
• WPAR Backup