Restore from Another Veeam Backup Server

You can use Veeam Agent for Unix to restore data from backups located in a repository managed by another Veeam backup server. To do this, you must connect to the second backup server in read-only mode. This will allow you to view backups stored in its repositories and restore data from them.

Before You Begin

Consider the following about adding and managing a Veeam backup server in read-only mode:

• You can add only one Veeam backup server in read-only mode.
• If you add the same Veeam backup server in read-only mode, you must add it under a different name.
• You cannot use the read-only backup server as a target for backups of the Veeam Agent computer.

• To view backups of other IBM AIX-based machines from Veeam Agent computer, you must use the veeamconfig backup list command with the --all option.

Connecting to Backup Sever in Read-Only Mode

To connect a Veeam Agent computer to another Veeam backup server in read-only mode, use the following command:

where:

• <vbr_name> — name of the Veeam backup server to which you want to connect.
• <vbr_address> — IP address of the Veeam backup server.
• <vbr_port> — port over which Veeam Agent for Unix must communicate with Veeam Backup & Replication. The default port used for communication with the Veeam backup server is 10006.
• <username> — a user name of the account that has access to the Veeam backup repository.

You can specify a user name in the username or username@domain format. In the latter case, you do not need to specify a domain as a value of the --domain option.

• <domain> — a name of the domain in which the account that has access to the Veeam backup repository is registered.
• <password> — password of the account that has access to the Veeam backup repository. If you do not specify a password as a value of the --password option, Veeam Agent will prompt you to enter the password when you run the veeamconfig vbrserver add command.

Permissions on the backup repository managed by the target Veeam backup server must be granted beforehand. To learn more, see Editing Access Permissions.

For example: