On these slides you can find why Veeam Agent for Linux is the perfect choice to protect your Linux workloads, as it can be Zimbra Collaboration

1. Veeam Agent for Linux
How to protect an Enterprise Email and Collaboration
Environment with Veeam Agent for Linux
Jorge de la Cruz
Veeam Vanguard, Blogger
@jorgedlcruz – jorgedelacruz.es
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2. Agenda
Introduction
Architecture in a real-world scenario
Installation and Use
Questions
Backup
Restore

3. Introduction

4. Required for interaction with public cloud architectures
Allow better interaction with the physical servers and workstations
Agentless is even superior for virtualized environments
Why an agent?

5. The main challenges
The Backup and restore of Linux instances residing in the cloud
The backup of physical servers and workstations with compliance requirements and complex
configurations
Ensure a low RPO for remote laptops

6. Architecture in a real-world
scenario

7. What is it
Image-level backup (VBK file) Proprietary snapshot technology
Driver CBT (Change Block Tracking)
Incremental backups without rescanning

8. CPU: x86/x64
Kernel: 2.6.32 or higher
OS: 32- and 64-bit editions of:
Debian 6.x-8.x
Ubuntu 10.04-16.10
RHEL/CentOS/Oracle Linux 6.x-7.x
Fedora 23, 24
openSUSE 11.3-13.x, Leap 42.1
SLES 11 SP1 – 12
Requirements for use

9. Main components
• Full computer, volume- or
file-level backup
• Multiple job support
• Pre-freeze/post-thaw
snapshot scripts
• Snapshot and CBT drivers
• Console UI or command line
• Bare metal, volume- and
file-level restores
• Bootable recovery media
• Configure network
• Switch to command line
• Reboot
• Veeam® Backup &
Replication™

10. Real-world scenario with Zimbra
On-prem – Physical Installation On-prem  VMware+Zimbra+Veeam
Cloud Environment – Single or Multi-
Server on Azure, AWS or GCP

11. Installation & Use

12. Simplified installation through the use of the Veeam repository
• Need to be "root"
• Install the Veeam repository for your own distro (download it from veeam.com)
# dpkg -i ./veeam-release* && apt-get update
• Install Agent
# apt-get install veeam
• Put the backup operator in the "veeam" group
# usermod -a -G veeam <username>
Installation

13. Backup via user interface
• $ veeam
• Backup mode: bare-metal, single
volumes or files
• Backup repository: Local disk,
Veeam Backup & Replication
shared folder or repository
(requires 9.5 Update 1)
• Schedule and number of recovery
points

14. Backup via command line
• # veeamconfig
• To create a backup job here, use
the command:
• # veeamconfig job
create
And add the job parameters.
• By using the command line it is
possible to specify parameters such
compressionLevel and blockSize,
not available in the UI.

15. Restore
Files are restored through
the Veeam Agent for
Linux UI
Bare metal, volume or single
file restore through the
recovery media included
in Veeam Agent for Linux

16. Integration with Veeam Backup
and Replication
If you decide to take advantage of a Veeam Backup & Replication server for storing
backups, you will be able to see them all in a new tab called Agents.

17. Integration with Veeam Backup and
Replication*
The backup administrators working with Veeam Backup & Replication will be
able to perform a number of operations with Veeam Agent for Linux backups:
• Perform data protection operations: copy the Veeam Agent for Linux backups on
a secondary repository and store them on tape.
• Perform recovery operations: restore individual files and directories from Veeam Agent
for Linux backups; recover entire disks and convert them into VMDK, VHD or VHDX
format; restore directly on Microsoft Azure.
• Perform administrative tasks: disable and delete Veeam Agent for Linux backup jobs,
remove the Veeam Agent for Linux backups and so on.
*Requires Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 1 or above

18. Free Workstation Server
Entire computer, volume-level and file-level image-
based backup
Built-in volume snapshot and Changed Block
Tracking drivers
File-level, volume-level and bare metal recovery
(same or different hardware)
Backup and recovery using console UI or command
line
Integration with Veeam Backup & Replication
Support for multiple jobs
Pre-freeze/post-thaw snapshot scripts for application
processing
24.7.365 technical support
Veeam Agent for Linux editions

19. Conclusions
Veeam Agent for Linux allows to protect on-premises Linux
systems or systems in the public cloud. It is a standalone
product that does not require Veeam Backup & Replication,
although it can take advantage of its backup repositories.
• https://www.veeam.com/linux-cloud-server-backup-agent.html
• https://www.veeam.com/veeam_agent_linux_1_0_user_guide_pg.pdf
• https://www.veeam.com/veeam_agent_linux_1_0_datasheet_ds.pdf

20. Zimbra Collaboration is an open source messaging and collaboration solution,
trusted by more than 5,000 companies and public sector customers, and over 100
million end users, in over 140 countries. Zimbra includes complete email, address
book, calendar, file-sharing and tasks, and can be accessed from the Zimbra Web
client, MS Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird and other standards based email clients
and mobile devices. You can deploy Zimbra as a traditional binary install on Linux.
• https://www.zimbra.com/email-server-software/
• https://www.zimbra.com/try/zimbra-collaboration-network-edition/
• https://files.zimbra.com/public/collateral/Zimbra_Collaboration_Product_Overvie
w.pdf
Zimbra Collaboration

21. Questions?