Deploying Plug-in for Certificate-Based Authentication
You have an option to install Veeam Plug-in on Linux computers using certificate-based authentication instead of credentials. To do so, you must install Veeam Deployer Service on the computer and then add the computer to a protection group of the Individual computers type. In this case, Veeam Backup & Replication does not require SSH connection to install Veeam Plug-in.
Deploying Veeam Plug-in
To deploy Veeam Plug-in using pre-installed Veeam Deployer Service, perform the following steps:
- On the Veeam Backup & Replication side, start a Veeam PowerShell session. For more information, see the Starting Veeam PowerShell Sessions in the Veeam PowerShell Reference.
- Run the Generate-VBRBackupServerDeployerKit cmdlet to generate the Veeam Deployer Service certificate and export the Veeam Backup & Replication Deployer Client certificate and Veeam Deployer Service installation packages.
- Upload the obtained files on the computer which database you want to protect.
- On the side of the computer with Veeam Plug-in, navigate to the directory where you have saved the files and install Veeam Deployer Service using a package manager.
- Run the following commands to install the certificates:
/opt/veeam/deployment/veeamdeploymentsvc --install-server-certificate server-cert.p12 |
- On the Veeam Backup & Replication side, create a protection group with the following parameters:
- At the Type step of the wizard, select Individuals computers.
- At the Computers step of the wizard, specify a computer and select the Connect using certificate-based authentication method to connect to the computer.
To learn more, see Specifying Computers.
After you create the protection group, Veeam Backup & Replication will rescan the protection group. During the rescan operation, Veeam Backup & Replication will connect to the Veeam Deployer Service and install Veeam Plug-in. To learn more, see Rescan Job.
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