Plug-in Ownership

To manage Veeam Plug-ins on target computers, you must make Veeam Backup & Replication the owner of these Veeam Plug-ins. To do this, perform one of the following operations from Veeam Backup & Replication console:

  • Using protection group, deploy Veeam Plug-ins remotely.
  • Add computers with standalone Veeam Plug-ins to a protection group that is configured to deploy Veeam Plug-ins.

If you add a computer with standalone Veeam Plug-in to a protection group that does not deploy Veeam Plug-ins, Veeam Backup & Replication will not be the owner of this Veeam Plug-in. In this case, you cannot perform any operations with Veeam Plug-in from the Veeam Backup & Replication console. To learn more, see Discovery and Deployment Options.

If Veeam Backup & Replication becomes the owner of Veeam Plug-in, this Veeam Plug-in switches to the managed mode. In the managed mode, a limited set of tasks can be done from the computer side.

You can perform the following tasks from the computer side:

  • Create the backup using the backup policy configured in the Veeam Backup & Replication console.
  • Restore data from backup to the original and new location.

Important

You cannot perform the following tasks from the computer side:

  • Create backup of a database that is not added to the backup policy on the Veeam Backup & Replication server. You can still create backup of such database on other targets. For example, local storage or shared folder.
  • Edit backup policy settings.

You can run the following commands from the computer side:

  • --showconfig
  • --help
  • --set-force-delete
  • --set-scale-out-cluster-name
  • [For Veeam Plug-in for SAP HANA and Veeam Plug-in for SAP on Oracle] --set-backup-for-restore
  • [For Veeam Plug-in for Oracle RMAN] --set-auth-data-for-restore
  • [For Veeam Plug-in for Oracle RMAN] --get-backup-id

On the computer, you can check the current owner of Veeam Plug-in. If Veeam Plug-in is managed by Veeam Backup & Replication, the following Veeam Backup & Replication connection parameters will be available in the config.xml file:

<VBRConnectionParams vbrHostName=<hostname> vbrPort=<port_number> vbrUser=<username> vbrDomain=<domain> vbrPassword=<password> vbrName=<name> vbrId=<ID> />

where:

  • <hostname> — IP address or hostname of the Veeam Backup & Replication server.
  • <port_number>  — port over which Veeam Plug-in must communicate with Veeam Backup & Replication. The default port used for communication with the Veeam Backup & Replication server is 10006.
  • <username> — a name of the account that has access to the Veeam Backup & Replication server.
  • <domain> — a name of the domain in which the account that has access to the Veeam Backup & Replication server is registered.
  • <password> — password of the account that has access to the Veeam Backup & Replication server.
  • <name> — name of the Veeam Backup & Replication server.
  • <ID> — ID of the Veeam Backup & Replication server.

Important

A plug-in can be managed by one Veeam Backup & Replication server only. If Veeam Backup & Replication tries to become the owner of Veeam Plug-in that is already managed by another Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam Backup & Replication will not change the owner and you will get a warning message.