Before You Begin

Before creating a protection group, consider the following prerequisites and limitations:

• When Veeam Backup & Replication performs discovery of protected computers, Veeam Backup & Replication connects to every computer added to the protection group. If you instruct Veeam Backup & Replication to perform discovery immediately after the protection group is created, make sure that all computers added to the protection group are powered on and may be accessed over the network. Otherwise, Veeam Backup & Replication will be unable to connect to a protected computer and perform the required operations on this computer.
• We recommend that you do not add a computer to a protection group by specifying a dynamic IP address assigned to this computer. If such computer receives another IP address from a DHCP server, Veeam Backup & Replication will be unable to discover the computer and perform on this computer operations defined in the protection group settings.
• We recommend that you do not add a computer to a protection group by specifying a public IP address assigned to this computer. If you add such computer to a backup policy targeted at a cloud repository, the name of the subtenant account created for the computer can contain the public IP address. This IP address will be visible to the Veeam Cloud Connect service provider who has access to subtenant account settings.
• To deploy Veeam Installer Service and Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows on a protected computer, Veeam Backup & Replication uses the administrative share (admin$) of the target computer. An account that you plan to use to connect to a computer included in the protection group must have access to the administrative share.

Note that in client Microsoft Windows OSes access to the administrative share is forbidden by default for local accounts. You can enable this option with a registry key. To learn more, see this Microsoft KB article.

• Veeam Backup & Replication does not support usage of a Linux account for which system settings modify shell output results to connect to a computer included in the protection group. For example, this includes Linux accounts with the modified PS1 shell variable.
• To connect to the Linux-based computer where you want to install Veeam Agent for Linux, you must specify the user account that has a home directory. The specified user account must also have the read and write permissions for their home directory.

• You must not install Veeam Agent on the server that is used as a hardened repository in the Veeam Backup & Replication infrastructure.