Backup Location

The Backup Location is a target location where Veeam Agent for IBM AIX creates backup files. Veeam Agent for IBM AIX supports creating backup files in a file backup location.

• For the full backup, a file backup location is a file in the VTD (Virtual Tape Drive) format that resides in an NFS directory mounted to the file system of your machine. When you perform full backup, Veeam Agent for IBM AIX copies the backed-up data and stores it to the VTD file. To specify backup location settings for the full backup, you must specify a path to the VTD file that will contain backed-up data of your machine.

You can keep the resulting backup file in an NFS directory or copy it to a tape media for archive purposes.

• For an incremental backup, a file backup location is a directory in the file system of your machine where Veeam Agent for IBM AIX creates incremental backup files in the .tar.gz format. When you perform incremental backup, Veeam Agent for IBM AIX produces a new incremental backup file in this directory. To specify backup location settings for the incremental backup, you must specify a path to the directory where you want to keep the chain of incremental backup files.

To back up your data with Veeam Agent for IBM AIX, you must create a backup location — specify settings for the location where Veeam Agent will save resulting backup files. You can create the necessary number of backup locations, for example, if you want to have multiple copies of your data in different locations.

Veeam Agent for IBM AIX stores information about configured backup locations in the /etc/veeam/devices.ini configuration file. You can specify backup location settings using the Veeam Backup Console or with the command-line interface by editing the /etc/veeam/devices.ini configuration file directly.

Veeam Agent for IBM AIX creates backup files in the default backup location. Once you create a backup location, Veeam Agent automatically selects this backup location as the default one. If you have multiple backup locations configured in Veeam Agent for IBM AIX, you must select the necessary backup location as the default backup location prior to starting the backup process.

The name of the default backup location is defined in the /etc/veeam/ubax.ini configuration file. You can select a backup location as the default one using the Veeam Backup Console or with the command-line interface by overwriting the name of the default backup location in the /etc/veeam/ubax.ini file.