This is an archive version of the document. To get the most up-to-date information, see the current version.

Veeam Data Integration API

Data integration API is a technology that allows you to get the backup content using the iSCSI or FUSE protocol. You can mount a disk from any type of the backup to both Windows-based and Unix-based OSes. 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
  • Computer backups

For more information, see the Veeam Data Integration API section in the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide.

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:

  • Backups of VMware vSphere virtual machines created by Veeam Backup & Replication
  • Backups of Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines created by Veeam Backup & Replication
  • Backups of vCloud Director virtual machines created by Veeam Backup & Replication
  • Backups of RHV VMs created by Veeam Backup for RHV
  • Backups of machines running Microsoft Windows created with Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows
  • Backups of machines running Linux created with Veeam Agent For Linux
  • Backups of machines running Oracle Solaris created with Veeam Agent for Oracle Solaris
  • Backups of machines running IBM AIX created with Veeam Agent for IBM AIX
  • Backups of machines running macOS created with Veeam Agent for Mac
  • Backups of Nutanix AHV virtual machines created with Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV
  • Backups of Amazon EC2 instances created with Veeam Backup for AWS
  • Backups of Microsoft Azure virtual machines created with Veeam Backup for Amazon EC2
  • Backups of Google virtual machines created with Veeam Backup for Google Cloud Platform