Before You Begin

Before you create a Veeam Agent backup job managed by the backup server in the Veeam Backup & Replication console, check the following prerequisites:

• The Veeam Backup & Replication license must have a sufficient number of instances to process servers and workstations that you plan to add to the Veeam Agent backup job. To learn more, see Licensing Requirements.

• The target location where you plan to store backup files must have enough free space.
• Protection groups that you want to add to the job must be configured in advance.

Veeam Agent backup jobs have the following limitations:

• If you want to perform a volume-level restore of a machine using Veeam Agent, the BIOS boot partition of this machine must be associated with a block device. Otherwise, Veeam Agent supports only file-level restore from the backup of the machine.
• You can create Veeam Agent backups in a Veeam backup repository. If you want to save backups in other target locations, you must configure a Veeam Agent backup job managed by Veeam Agent (backup policy). To learn more, see Creating Policy for Linux Computers.

• You cannot map a Veeam Agent backup job managed by the backup server to a Veeam Agent backup chain created by another type of a Veeam Agent backup job. After you change the mode of a Veeam Agent computer, Veeam Backup & Replication starts a new backup chain in a target location specified in the backup job settings.
• Veeam Agent does not support backup of bind mount points. In the scope of the backup job, you must specify the path to the original mount point instead.

• If you plan to create a Veeam Agent backup job for computers with nosnap Veeam Agent installed, consider the limitations and system requirements listed in section System Requirements for Linux Computers (nosnap Veeam Agent).

• You cannot add a Veeam Agent computer protected by a Veeam Agent backup policy to a backup job managed by the backup server. To add such a computer to a backup job managed by the backup server, first remove the computer from the Veeam Agent backup policy.