Before You Begin

Before you create a Veeam Agent backup policy 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 backup policy. 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 policy must be configured in advance.

Veeam Agent backup policies have the following limitations:

• If you want to perform a volume-level restore of a computer using Veeam Agent, the BIOS boot partition of this computer must be associated with a block device. Otherwise, Veeam Agent supports only file-level restore from the backup of the computer.

• You cannot map a Veeam Agent backup policy 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 policy settings.
• Veeam Agent does not support backup of bind mount points. In the scope of the backup policy, you must specify the path to the original mount point instead.

• [For backup policies that protect computers with nosnap Veeam Agent] Consider the system requirements and limitations listed in section System Requirements for Linux Computers (nosnap Veeam Agent).
• [For backup policies that protect computers with nosnap Veeam Agent] Nosnap versions of Veeam Agent for Linux do not support application-aware processing. If you configure application-aware processing in a policy that protects computers with nosnap Veeam Agent, such policy will fail to get applied or updated on the computers with nosnap Veeam Agent.

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