Before You Begin

Before you create an application backup policy in the Veeam Backup & Replication console, consider the following prerequisites and limitations:

The Veeam Backup & Replication license must have a sufficient number of instances to process the InterSystems IRIS instances that you plan to add to the application backup policy. For details, see Licensing.
ODB servers, InterSystems IRIS instances, file systems, backup proxies and storage systems must meet the system requirements. Veeam Backup & Replication supports only Linux-based backup proxies and storage systems compatible with the Universal Storage API. For details, see System Requirements.
The storage system that hosts the InterSystems IRIS data volumes must be registered in Veeam Backup & Replication with the Block storage for application protection role. For details, see Registering Storage System for Application Protection.
A protection group for the ODB servers that you want to add to the policy must be configured and rescanned in advance. During the rescan, Veeam Backup & Replication discovers the InterSystems IRIS instances available for backup. For details, see Creating Protection Group for InterSystems IRIS Instances.
If you run the policy in backup mode, at least one Linux-based backup proxy must be added to the Veeam Backup & Replication infrastructure, and the target backup repository must have enough free space for the backup files. In snapshot-only mode, Veeam Backup & Replication keeps the data as storage snapshots on the storage system and does not copy it to a backup repository.
The policy does not process the journal (log) files of the InterSystems IRIS instance. As a result, point-in-time restore is not available. You can restore only to the state captured in a backup or storage snapshot. For details, see Backup Types.