Backup Target
Backup can be performed to the storage targets listed below.
Veeam Agent Backup Jobs Managed by Backup Server
If you protect Veeam Agent computers by a backup job managed by Veeam backup server, you can store backups only in Veeam backup repository.
Veeam Agent Backup Jobs Managed by Veeam Agent
If you protect Veeam Agent computers by a backup job managed by Veeam Agent, you can store backups in repositories configured in the following locations:
- Local (internal) storage of the protected computer (not recommended)
- Direct attached storage (DAS), such as USB, eSATA or Firewire external drives, and raw device mapping (RDM) volumes
IMPORTANT |
[For Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows] Storage devices with the exFAT file system are not supported as a backup target. |
- Network Attached Storage (NAS) able to represent itself as an SMB (CIFS) share
- Network Attached Storage (NAS) able to represent itself as an NFS share (for backups of Linux and Unix computers only)
- On-premises and cloud-based object storage (except backups of Unix computers)
- Veeam Backup & Replication version 13.0.0 backup repository