Restore Linux Data on Microsoft Azure Using Veeam Agent

Contacted by customer. They have Linux workload on-premise & would like to use Microsoft Azure as DR site.

Requirement:-

• Linux workload on-premise
• Use Microsoft Azure -Compute VM as DR site
• Able to restore data backup from on-premise/Azure
• No recovery of virtual machine. Just data
• Linux Azure VM has created with application without latest data

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Here is my proposal:-

• Veeam Agent for Linux install on Linux physical/Linux VM. Configure to backup and store into Veeam Repository
• Use Centralize Veeam Repository to store backup data. Customer able to restore on-premise & Azure Linux VM.
• Configure Backup Copy Job to Veeam Repository on MS Azure. This will copy backup data to MS Azure via site to site VPN. Customer will have a copy of data on-premise & a copy of data on MS Azure.

When disaster happen,

a) customer can restore from on-premise or

b) customer can restore from MS Azure or

c) Use Veeam Explorer on-premise to restore item level recovery. Must have FLR appliance on-premise hypervisor.

Let look into situation that we want to use MS Azure VM as a place where entire production site is down. Here is the configuration that you need to configure:

1. Initially has export Veeam Configuration from Linux on-premise using cmdline- "veeamconfig config export --file config.txt

2. Install Veeam Agent on MS Azure Linux VM. 

3. Transfer the configuration to MS Azure Linux VM. Don't import first.

4. Pres C to configure a dummy backup job with this settings: 

• Use different backup job name than the original name.
• Use VBR as Destination
• Choose Repository - (Veeam Repository at MS Azure) - location where backup copy job data is stored.
• Uncheck "Run the job automatically"

You also can configure backup repository from cmdline:- veeamconfig repository

We just create a dummy backup job so it is connected to Veeam Backup Repository to get the backup data.

Then import the Veeam Backup Configuration file - veeamconfig config import --file config.txt

• Open Veeam Console by type command "veeam"
• Press "R" to recover file
• You able to view your previous backup job and you can start to restore the file.

To learn more on Veeam Agent for Linux, feel free to check out:-

• Backup Linux Workload Using Veeam Agent
• Restore Linux Workload Using Veeam Agent