Managing Backup Repositories

A backup repository is a storage location where Veeam Agent for Linux keeps backup files. You can use the following types of storage as a target location for a backup job:

Local (internal) storage of the protected machine (not recommended).
Direct attached storage (DAS), such as USB, eSATA or Firewire external drives.
Network Attached Storage (NAS) able to represent itself as SMB (CIFS) or NFS share.
Object storage repository, such as S3 Compatible storage, Amazon S3, Google Cloud or Microsoft Azure Blob.

12.1 or later backup repository (including deduplication appliances).

Veeam Backup & Replication 12.0 or later cloud repository.

Important

Consider the following about backup repositories:

[For local storage] A backup repository should be created on a separate volume from the volume that contains data you plan to back up.
[For Veeam backup repository] Backup repositories with enabled KMS encryption are not supported.

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