Silent Deployment

You can install, upgrade and uninstall Veeam Backup & Replication and the Veeam Backup & Replication console in the unattended mode with a special XML answer file by using the command line interface. Answer files contain all the necessary installation, upgrade or uninstallation settings in the proper order and their thorough description.

You can find the template answer files on the Veeam Backup & Replication installation disk in the \Setup\Silent\AnswerFiles\VBR and \Setup\Silent\AnswerFiles\VBRConsole folder. This folder contains the following templates of answer files used for installing, uninstalling, and upgrading Veeam Backup & Replication:

VbrAnswerFile_install.xml — for installing Veeam Backup & Replication;
VbrAnswerFile_uninstall.xml — for uninstalling Veeam Backup & Replication;
VbrAnswerFile_upgrade.xml — for upgrading Veeam Backup & Replication;
VbrConsoleAnswerFile_install.xml — for installing the Veeam Backup & Replication console;
VbrConsoleAnswerFile_uninstall.xml — for uninstalling the Veeam Backup & Replication console;
VbrConsoleAnswerFile_upgrade.xml — for upgrading the Veeam Backup & Replication console.

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