Performing WPAR Backup

Veeam Agent for IBM AIX performs WPAR backup in the similar way as incremental backup. The difference is that Veeam Agent copies and stores to a backup file the entire file system of a WPAR, and not the root directory or specific directory of the machine file system.

Before you perform WPAR backup, make sure that the necessary backup location (that is, the backup location intended for keeping backup files of the WPAR that you back up) is selected as the default backup location. To learn more, see Specifying Default Backup Location.

To create backup of a WPAR, use the following command:

where:

• -v — option that enables the verbose output (disabled by default).
• -R <value> — option that defines the number of backup files to keep in the backup chain (the default value is 720).

• -n <name> — option that defines the name of the WPAR that you want to back up. Veeam Agent for IBM AIX will use the provided name to generate the names of the WPAR backup files. For example, if you specify the wpar01 name of the backed-up WPAR, the resulting backup files will have the following names: container-wpar01.tar.gz, container-wpar01.tar.gz.0, container-wpar01.tar.gz.1 and so on.
• <path> — path to the WPAR directory in the file system. To view paths to WPARs configured on the Veeam Agent machine, you can use the lswpar command.

Example

The following example displays a command to back up a WPAR with the name wpar01. Veeam Agent for IBM AIX is set up to keep 14 WPAR backup files in the target location.