Storage Settings

To specify storage settings for the backup job:

Click Advanced at one of the following steps of the wizard:

Storage — if you have selected to save backup files in a Veeam backup repository or cloud repository.

Local Storage — if you have selected to save backup files on a local storage of a Veeam Agent computer.
Shared Folder — if you have selected to save backup files in a network shared folder.

Click the Storage tab.
From the Compression level list, select a compression level for the backup: None, Dedupe-friendly, Optimal, High or Extreme.
In the Storage optimization section, select what type of backup target you plan to use. Depending on the chosen storage type, Veeam Agent for Linux will use data blocks of different size to optimize the size of backup files and job performance: 4 MB, 1 MB, 512 KB or 256 KB.
To encrypt the content of backup files, select the Enable backup file encryption check box. In the Password field, select a password that you want to use for encryption. If you have not created the password beforehand, click Add or use the Manage passwords link to specify a new password. For more information, see the Password Manager section in the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide.

If the backup server is not connected to Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager, you will not be able to restore data from encrypted backups in case you lose the password. Veeam Backup & Replication will display a warning about it: Loss protection disabled. For more information, see the Decrypting Data Without Password section in the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide.

[For backup job managed by backup server] Starting from Veeam Backup & Replication version 12.1, you can select a Key Management System (KMS) server in the Password field. The KMS server must be added to Veeam Backup & Replication in advance. If you choose to use KMS keys for backup file encryption at this step of the wizard, Veeam Backup & Replication immediately starts communication with the KMS server to retrieve the encryption keys. To learn more, see the Key Management System Keys section in the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide.

Storage Settings NOTE

Consider the following:

If you enable encryption for an existing Veeam Agent backup, during the next job session Veeam Agent for Linux will create a full backup file. The created full backup file and subsequent incremental backup files in the backup chain will be encrypted with the specified password.

Encryption is not retroactive. If you enable encryption for an existing backup job, Veeam Agent for Linux will encrypt the backup chain starting from the next restore point created with this job.

[For backup policies targeted at a local drive, network shared folder or cloud repository] When you enable data encryption for a backup policy, Veeam Backup & Replication uses the specified password to encrypt backups of all Veeam Agent computers added to the backup policy. A Veeam Agent computer user can restore data from the backup of this computer without providing a password to decrypt backup. To restore data from a backup of another computer in this backup policy, a user must provide a password specified in the backup policy settings.

To learn more about data encryption in Veeam Backup & Replication, see the Data Encryption section in the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide.

Storage Settings