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Recipe: Create a Proxmox VE Backup Job with Guest Processing for Linux VMs

Expected deliverables:

A Veeam Backup Job to back up Proxmox VE VMs data with Guest application-aware processing enabled for Linux VMs.

Time to complete: 5 minutes

Ingredients:

• A Proxmox VE server added to the backup infrastructure.
• At least one Proxmox VE Worker for backup processing.
• A Backup Repository with enough capacity to keep backup files for the retention period. You can also consider the use of Scale-Out Backup Repository.
• A user account with the required privileges if Guest Processing will be enabled

Before you start:
The target Repository must have enough free space to store Backup files.

Assumptions:
You have a Veeam Backup and Replication server installed.

Method:

1. Open the Veeam Backup & Replication Console.
2. Right-click the working area and select Backup > Virtual machine > Proxmox VE.
3. At the Job step, specify a job name and description. Click Next.
4. At the Virtual Machines step, click Add and select the Proxmox VE VMs or containers (pools, nodes) that you want to back up.
   • Click Add, then in the Add Object window select the necessary VMs or VM containers and click Add. Click Next.
5. At the Storage step, select backup infrastructure components for the job:
   • From the Backup repository list, select a backup repository where the created backup files must be stored. Make sure it has enough free space.
   • In the Retention Policy field, specify retention policy settings in Days.
   • If you want to enable GFS for Long-Term retention, then select the Keep some periodic full backups longer for archival purposes check box and configure GFS options.
6. At the Guest Processing step,
   • Check Enable application-aware processing option.
   • If you want to configure archive/transaction log processing for databases like MS SQL Server or Oracle, click in Applications, then select a workload from the list and click in Edit. In the Processing Settings windows configure the parameters according to your requirements.
   • Check Enable guest file system indexing and malware detection if you want to create a catalog of guest OS files and scan it for suspicious file system activity and malware files.
   • From the Guest OS credentials list, specify credentials that Veeam will use to access guest OSes of all VMs included into the backup scope.
   • To check whether Veeam can connect to VMs using the specified guest OS credentials, click Verify network connectivity and credentials.
   • Click Next.
7. At the Schedule step, select to run the backup job manually or schedule the job to run on a regular basis. Click Apply.
8. At the Summary step, review details of the backup job. If you want to start the job right after you close the wizard, select the Run the job when I click Finish check box, otherwise leave the check box unselected. Then click Finish to close the wizard.

Links to Resources:

• Veeam Guides and Helpcenter
• Veeam Community Forums
• Veeam Best Practices