Before You Begin

Before you create a Veeam Agent backup policy in the Veeam Backup & Replication console, check the following prerequisites:

• The Veeam Backup & Replication license must have a sufficient number of instances to process servers and workstations that you plan to add to the backup policy. To learn more, see Licensing Requirements.

• The target location where you plan to store backup files must have enough free space.
• Protection groups that you want to add to the policy must be configured in advance.

• [For backup policies targeted at the cloud repository] The Veeam Cloud Connect service provider must be added in the Veeam backup console.

Veeam Agent backup policies have the following limitations:

• If you want to perform a volume-level restore of a computer using Veeam Agent, the BIOS boot partition of this computer must be associated with a block device. Otherwise, Veeam Agent supports only file-level restore from the backup of the computer.

• You cannot map a Veeam Agent backup policy to a Veeam Agent backup chain created by another type of a Veeam Agent backup job. After you change the mode of a Veeam Agent computer, Veeam Backup & Replication starts a new backup chain in a target location specified in the backup policy settings.

• Veeam Agent does not support creating transaction log backups in the cloud repository. You cannot enable transaction log backup options in the properties of the backup policy targeted at the cloud repository.
• Veeam Agent does not support backup of bind mount points. In the scope of the backup policy, you must specify the path to the original mount point instead.

• If you plan to create a Veeam Agent backup policy for computers with nosnap Veeam Agent installed, consider the limitations and system requirements listed in section System Requirements for Linux Computers (nosnap Veeam Agent).

• You cannot add a Veeam Agent computer protected by a backup job managed by the backup server to a Veeam Agent backup policy. To add such a computer to a Veeam Agent backup policy, first remove the computer from the backup job managed by the backup server.