Using SureBackup

Veeam Backup & Replication offers the SureBackup technology to test backups and check if you can recover data from them. You can verify any restore point of a backed-up computer protected with Veeam Agent for Linux.

To learn more about the logic behind SureBackup, see the How SureBackup Works section in the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide.

Before creating the SureBackup job, check limitations for Veeam Agent backups below. Then launch the New SureBackup Job wizard to create the SureBackup job. To learn more, see the Creating SureBackup Job section in the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide.

Limitations

For backups created with Veeam Agent for Linux, SureBackup has the following limitations:

• SureBackup job in the Backup verification and content scan only mode is not supported.

• SureBackup is not supported for backups stored in the Veeam Cloud Connect repository.
• SureBackup is not supported for backups stored in the archive tier of the the scale-out backup repository.

• SureBackup is not supported for backups containing drives greater than 64 TB.
• If you plan to verify computer recovery with VMware vSphere, consider the following:

• SureBackup is not supported for backups of 4 KB sector drives.
• SureBackup is not supported for backups of storage spaces.
• SureBackup is not supported for backups containing more than 54 drives.

• When Veeam Backup & Replication publishes virtual machines based on backed-up Veeam Agent computers in the isolated virtual environment, all these virtual machines are included in the first isolated network added during the virtual lab configuration. To learn more, see the Create Isolated Networks section in the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide.

• You cannot use SureBackup with backup files created with Veeam Agent for Linux on Power.

• The successful recovery verification is not guaranteed for the following Linux distributions:

• Amazon Linux 2
• Amazon Linux 2023
• openSUSE Tumbleweed

• The successful recovery verification is not guaranteed for backups of Linux-based systems that contain encrypted devices.
• If you want Veeam Backup & Replication to connect the recovered VM to the virtual network, one of the following configuration utilities must be installed on the protected computer:

• Netplan
• NetworkManager
• sysconfig
• systemd-networkd
• ifupdown/ifupdown2

• SureBackup is not supported for file-level backups. You must use volume-level backup of the protected computer. The backup must include the root file system (/) and all partitions specified in the /etc/fstab file. To learn more about backup types, see Backup Types.