Considerations and Limitations

When you plan to deploy and configure Veeam Backup for Proxmox VE, keep in mind the following limitations and considerations.

Configuration

When configuring Veeam Backup for Proxmox VE, consider the following:

Veeam Backup for Proxmox VE supports Proxmox Virtual Environment deployments created using the official ISO image provided by Proxmox only.
Before you add Proxmox VE servers to the backup infrastructure, ensure that they have been assigned Proxmox VE system UUIDs and their names do not contain FQDN names.

If you want to protect VMs that reside in a Proxmox VE cluster, all nodes of these cluster must be added to the backup infrastructure separately. Adding clusters as standalone entities is not supported.
After you add nodes of a cluster to the backup infrastructure, you must not change the name of the cluster in the Proxmox VE administration portal.

Backup Repositories

When managing backup repositories, consider that Veeam Backup for Proxmox VE does not support storing backups in Veeam Cloud Connect and HPE Cloud Bank Storage repositories. However, you can use them for storing copies of backups created with Veeam Backup for Proxmox VE.

Workers

When configuring workers, consider the following:

Veeam Backup for Proxmox VE uses standard bridge networking to forward traffic from and to worker VMs. Open vSwitch is not supported.
The default local storage must be enabled on all hosts where worker VMs will be deployed. If you cannot use the default storage in your environment, contact Veeam Customer Support.

Backup

When protecting Proxmox VE resources, consider the following:

Veeam Backup for Proxmox VE does not support backup of LXC containers.

Veeam Backup for Proxmox VE does not support backup of VMs created from templates as linked clones. Backup of full clones is supported.
Veeam Backup for Proxmox VE does not support backup of VMs with the same BIOS UUID.

Veeam Backup for Proxmox VE does not support backup of iSCSI disks. If iSCSI disks are attached to a VM included into a backup job, these disks will be skipped from processing.
Veeam Backup for Proxmox VE does not support backup of VM permissions granted to users, user groups and API tokens.

Veeam Backup for Proxmox VE does not support backup of VMs that store their disks in the BTRFS and custom storage. All other Proxmox VE storage types are supported.
The number of concurrent backup operations performed in each storage is limited to 4 to avoid excessive load on the production environment. To change the limit, contact Veeam Customer Support.

Restore

When restoring Proxmox VE resources, consider the following:

Veeam Backup for Proxmox VE does not support restore of VMs to the BTRFS and custom storage.
Veeam Backup for Proxmox VE does not support restore of VMs to Ceph/RBD storage if the krbd property is enabled.