Step 5. Choose Backup Mode

At the Backup Mode step of the wizard, select the mode in which you want to create a backup:

• Entire computer — select this option if you want to create a backup of the entire computer image. When you restore data from such backup, you will be able to recover the entire computer image as well as data on specific computer volumes: files, folders, application data and so on. With this option selected, you will pass to the Destination step of the wizard.
• Volume level backup — select this option if you want to create a backup of specific computer volumes, for example, all volumes except the system one. When you restore data from such backup, you will be able to recover data on these volumes only: files, folders, application data and so on. With this option selected, you will pass to the Volumes step of the wizard.
• File level backup — select this option if you want to create a backup of individual directories and files on your computer. With this option selected, you will pass to the Files step of the wizard.

If you want to perform backup in the snapshot-less mode, select the Backup directly from live file system check box. With this option selected, Veeam Agent for Linux will not create a snapshot of a backed-up volume during backup. This allows Veeam backup agent to back up data residing in file systems that are not supported for snapshot-based backup with Veeam Agent for Linux. For details, see section Snapshot-Less File-Level Backup of the Veeam Agent for Linux User Guide.