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Integration with Veeam Backup & Replication

If you plan to use Veeam Agent for Oracle Solaris 3.0 with Veeam Backup & Replication, you must install Veeam Backup & Replication 11a (build 11.0.1.1261) or later on the Veeam backup server.

You can store backup files created with Veeam Agent for Oracle Solaris on backup repositories managed by Veeam Backup & Replication. To do this, you must specify a Veeam backup repository as a target location in the backup job settings. A list of available Veeam backup repositories appears in Veeam Agent after you connect to the Veeam backup server. To learn more, see Managing Veeam Backup & Replication Servers.

To store Veeam Agent backups, you can use a simple backup repository or scale-out backup repository.

Veeam Agent for Oracle Solaris works with the Veeam Backup & Replication backup repository as with any other backup repository. Backup files are stored to a separate directory; you can perform standard restore operations using these files.

Information about Veeam Agent for Oracle Solaris backups stored on the Veeam Backup & Replication backup repositories, backup jobs and sessions becomes available in the Veeam Backup & Replication console:

The Veeam Agent backup job is displayed in the list of jobs in Veeam Backup & Replication.
Backup files created with Veeam Agent for Oracle Solaris are displayed in the list of backups, under the Agents node.
Performed job sessions are available in the History view of Veeam Backup & Replication.

Backup administrators working with Veeam Backup & Replication can perform a set of operations with Veeam Agent for Oracle Solaris backups:

Perform data protection operations: copy Veeam Agent for Oracle Solaris backups to secondary backup repositories and archive these backups to tape.
Perform restore operations: restore individual files and directories from Veeam Agent for Oracle Solaris backups and export data from these backups to virtual disks of the VMDK, VHD or VHDX format.
Perform administrative tasks: disable and delete Veeam Agent backup jobs, remove Veeam Agent backups and so on.

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