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Veeam Data Integration API

Veeam Data Integration API is a set of Veeam PowerShell cmdlets that allow you to represent data of backup files as a mounted Windows folder. You may want to use this option when you need an existing application to be able to access backed-up data in a read-only manner.

You can mount the following types of backed-up data:

VM backups
VM replicas
VM disks

The cmdlets from this topic allow to perform the following operations.

Cmdlet	Operation
Publish-VBRBackupContent	Mounts the content of backup files using the iSCSI protocol.
Get-VBRPublishedBackupContentSession	Returns sessions that are running to mount the backup content to iSCSI target servers.
Get-VBRPublishedBackupContentInfo	Returns details on the mounted content of backup files.
Unpublish-VBRBackupContent	Unmounts content of backup files from iSCSI target servers.

The following environments and backup solutions are supported:

Hyper-V
VMWare
Veeam Agent For Windows
Veeam Agent For Linux