Backup of Database Systems

You can instruct Veeam Agent for Linux to create consistent backups of Veeam Agent computers that run one of the supported database systems using application-aware processing..

Supported Database Systems

Veeam Agent processes the Oracle database system using internal components: oralib and oracleproxy.

Veeam Agent processes the PostgreSQL database system using an internal component: pgsqlagent.

 

Backup of Database Archived Logs

If you back up the Oracle or PostgreSQL database system using a backup job managed by Veeam backup server, Veeam Agent can also back up archived logs. You can use archived logs to restore the database system to the necessary state up to the certain operation. Veeam Agent backups archived logs in the similar way as in a backup job for VMs, with the same requirements and limitations.

To learn more about backup of Oracle database archived logs, see Oracle Log Backup.

To learn more about backup of PostgreSQL database archived logs, see PostgreSQL Log Backup.

Considerations and Limitations

Consider the following about application-aware and database processing:

  • If there are multiple database systems on the Veeam Agent computer, consider the following:
  • Veeam Agent supports processing of multiple PostgreSQL or Oracle database systems on one Veeam Agent computer.
  • Veeam Agent does not support processing of multiple MySQL database systems on one Veeam Agent computer.
  • Veeam Agent does not support processing of multiple database systems of different types on one Veeam Agent computer.
  • Veeam Agent does not support 32-bit database systems installed on a 64-bit Linux OS.

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