Veeam Agent for

Microsoft Windows
Veeam Agent for Linux
Veeam Agent for Mac
Feature Comparison
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Contents
Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows 3 Standalone Deployment and Configuration 12

Backup 3 Integration with Veeam Backup & Replication 12

Recovery 3 Security & Compliance 13

Application-Aware Processing 3 Technical Support 13

Backup Targets 3 Veeam Agent for Mac 14

Backup Options 4 Backup 14

Retention and Scheduling 5 Recovery 14

Deployment and Configuration 5 Backup Targets 14

Integration with Veeam Backup & Replication 5 Backup Options 14

Security & Compliance 7 Retention and Scheduling 15

Technical Support 8 Deployment and Agent Management 15

Veeam Agent for Linux 9 Security and Compliance 16

Backup 9 Technical Support 16

Recovery 9

Application-Aware Processing 10

Backup Options 11

Retention and Scheduling 11

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Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows

Requires Veeam Universal License Community Workstation Server Notes

Backup

Entire computer Image-based backup of the entire machine for bare-metal restores.

Volume-level Image-based backup of specific volumes.

File-level Back up specific files and directories. Easily select user profiles for quick targeted backup configuration.

Recovery

Bare-metal recovery Restore the entire system to the same or different hardware via a bootable recovery image of your
computer that includes recovery tools you can leverage should your computer fail to start.

Volume-level recovery Restore a failed drive or partition.

File-level recovery Restore individual files in minutes.

Application-Aware Processing

Application-aware processing Create application-consistent backups with advanced application-aware processing (including
transaction log truncation).

File indexing and search A catalog of files enables effortless search of individual files, so you can find and restore a file without
knowing its precise location or when it was deleted.

Transaction log backup Achieve low RPOs for Microsoft SQL and Oracle databases.

Backup Targets

Object Storage Back up to on-premises or cloud object storage. Back up requires workstation or server license. Recovery
is avaialble in all editions.

Local storage Back up to locally attached storage.

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Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows

Community Workstation Server Notes
Requires Veeam Universal License

Rotated USB media Store your backup files on a single or several external hard drives.

Shared folder Back up to an SMB file share.

Veeam backup repository Define any Veeam Backup & Replication repository as a target for Veeam Agent jobs to eliminate backup
infrastructure complexity. This includes Object storage repositories, HPE StoreOnce Catalyst, EMC Data
Domain, and ReFS. Community Edition does not support third-party storage integrations. Enterprise storage
integration requires primary storage to be registered in Veeam Backup & Replication server as a repository.

Veeam Cloud Connect Repository Get your backups off-site with fully integrated, fast and secure backup and restore from the cloud through
a Veeam-powered service provider of your choice.

Backup Options

External USB drive backup Protect your periodically connected USB drives without any harm to regular day-to-day backup activity.

Parallel disk processing Achieve your recovery point objective (RPO) targets through increased backup job performance. When
backing up to a Veeam Backup & Replication repository or Veeam Cloud Connect repository, the Server
edition can process multiple disks simultaneously.

Multiple backup jobs Utilizing multiple backup schedules for different datasets by creating multiple backup jobs helps achieve
the desired RPO. Workstation edition only provides the ability to create an unlimited number of backup jobs to
a Veeam Cloud connect repository plus a single backup job to any Veeam supported backup repository.

Endpoint protection for mobile users Back up to a local cache when the specified target is not available and sync your cached backups once
the connection has been reestablished.

Network management Define the scope of network rules for your backup agent to use network bandwidth more efficiently.
Support for VPN auto detection with Cisco AnyConnect, Fortinet, Palo Alto and any Microsoft Windows TAP-9
VPN adapter.

Synthetic full Eliminate impact on production by creating synthetic full backups. Interaction with production workload
is limited to the time it takes to complete an incremental backup, and the VBK creation is then offloaded to
the target repository.

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Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows

Community Workstation Server Notes
Requires Veeam Universal License

Source-side encryption Secure backup data and network transfers with source-side encryption while avoiding any negative
impact on backup processing.

Changed block tracking (CBT) driver Optimize backup performance for mission-critical workloads (including new support for file-level
backup) with Veeam-powered change block tracking driver.

Retention and Scheduling

Retention based on days when Get user-friendly retention based on days when your computer was running. Now also available for
computer was used server edition.

Retention based on restore points Leverage server-based retention logic to protect your most-critical server applications.

Daily schedule and backup events Protect servers, laptops and desktops daily or based on user activity via backup events.

Continuous, daily, weekly and Choose from flexible options designed to back up your critical application servers as frequently as required.
monthly schedule

GFS Store backup files for long periods of time with specific GFS flags.

Adjustable backup window Define the time intervals for your backup jobs to avoid unwanted overhead for production applications.

Deployment and Configuration

Silent installation and upgrade Deploy or upgrade your agents in unattended mode.

Configuration API Configure your agents with the help of a simple command-line interface.

Integration with Veeam Backup & Replication

SureBackup® Test and verify recoverability of agent backup by automatically creating a VM directly from a backup file in
a fenced-off copy of your production environment. Provides support for custom application test scripts.

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Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows

Community Workstation Server Notes
Requires Veeam Universal License

Agent management Organize, automate and deploy Windows and Linux backups with Veeam Agent protection groups —
Create groups based on Active Directory or CSV files and configure custom automatic update and
deployment schedules.

Integration with software Protection group (PG) for pre-installed agents — This protection group type provides a convenient
deployment tools way to install agents using third-party software distribution solutions, when deploying them from
the backup server is not possible due to security and network connectivity restrictions. The PG wizard
creates a custom agent installation package that enables agents to connect to the backup server
automatically using the PKI-based authentication with a single-use certificate. The backup server
then places an incoming agent into the protection group that created the installation package and
issues a new permanent authentication certificate. At which point, you can use the agent in “managed by
agent” backup policies normally.

Managed jobs Control and manage backup activity for servers and failover clusters via the Veeam Backup &
Replication server.

Managed policies Create and distribute backup job configurations across servers, laptops and desktops via
the Veeam Backup & Replication server.

Secure Bare Metal Recovery with Create a secured and controlled recovery environment by generating recovery tokens for granular
Recovery Tokens access to machines.

Instant VM Recovery® Provides additional data recovery and portability options, enabling you to instantly recover ANY
Veeam backup to VMware vSphere and Hyper-V within minutes — reducing downtime.

Direct Restore to AWS/Microsoft Azure/ Restore or migrate on-premises, Windows-based or Linux-based VMs, physical servers and endpoints
Azure Stack directly to AWS, Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Azure Stack.

Volume-level recovery Restore computer volumes from the Veeam Backup & Replication server directly to the machine.

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Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows

Community Workstation Server Notes
Requires Veeam Universal License

Export as virtual disk Restore computer disks as VMDK, VHD or VHDX files.

Veeam Explorer™ for Microsoft Exchange Get instant visibility into Microsoft Exchange backups for item recovery of individual Exchange items
(emails, appointments, notes, contacts, etc.), online archive mailboxes and hard-deleted items. Leverage
comprehensive e-Discovery functionality, including query-result, size estimation and detailed export
reports. (Please note: Application-aware processing is only available in Server Edition).

Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SQL Server Restore individual SQL databases with ease without needing an extensive SQL background or having
to search for database and transaction-log files. (Please note: Application-aware processing is only
available in Server Edition).

Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SharePoint Get instant visibility into SharePoint backups with advanced search-and-browse capabilities for quick
recovery of individual SharePoint items and entire sites. (Please note: Application-aware processing is only
available in Server Edition).

Veeam Explorer for Oracle Restore individual Oracle databases with ease without needing an extensive Oracle background
or having to search for database and transaction log files. Editions include agentless, transaction-log
backup, archived log management and transaction-level recovery of databases back to the original
or new Oracle Server, as well as the ability to publish and export Oracle databases. (Please note:
Application-aware processing is only available in Server Edition).

Veeam Explorer for Microsoft You can use Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Active Directory to restore Microsoft Active Directory objects from
Active Directory any successfully created backup or replica of a virtualized Microsoft Active Directory Server. The backup or
replica must be created with application-aware processing enabled. (Please note: Application-aware
processing is only available in Server Edition).

Search and 1- click restore Restore machine files with a single click through a web UI.

Security & Compliance

Deployment in IPv6 environments Veeam agent is fully prepared to operate in the modern data centers configured with IPv6 networking.

Deployment in Kerberos-only Move security to a new level with the possibility to run all Veeam agents in the Kerberos-only environments.
environments

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Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows

Community Workstation Server Notes
Requires Veeam Universal License

FIPS compliance Veeam agent uses FIPS-compliant cryptographic APIs and modules.

Mordern email reporting Mordern authentication support for Microsoft 365 and Google in addition to SMTP.

Technical Support

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Please Note: Veeam does not provide phone support for Community, Free, or NFR licensed products.
Email support is provided on a best-effort basis depending on staff availability, but there are no response
goals or response guarantees for this service..

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Veeam Agent for Linux Community Workstation Server Notes

Backup
Veeam Agent for Linux on IBM Power File level recovery to original & other hosts (including cross-platform). Disk publish, Bare metal
restore, Volume level restore. Only BTRFS & LVM snapshots supported (no kernel module)

Veeam Agent for Linux nosnap (x86_64) Nosnap packages are now supported for x86_64 systems and allows for greater flexibility as nosnap
version is not affected by kernel patches. Support for Agent Management is provided for pre-
installed agents protection groups. LVM and BTRFS snapshots are supported which makes BMR
possible even without Veeam kernel module present.

Veeam Agent for Unix management Leverage VBR to deploy, configure, and control Unix agents.

Linux Deployer Package When installed on endpoints, Protection Groups can perform a remote deployment and management
of Veeam Agent for Linux, using certificate-based authentication, removing the need for providing local
credentials and communication over SSH.

Entire computer Image-based backup of the entire machine for bare-metal restores.

Volume-level Image-based backup of specific volumes.

File-level Back up specific files and directories, including extended attributes (xattr) support: back up not only
the data from file systems that are not supported by veeam snapshot and change-tracking module (such
as NSS, ZFS and others) but also make sure that all additional important metadata is safe.

Built-in volume snapshot and changed Get consistent, incremental online backups enabled by veeam kernel module with built-in volume snapshot
block tracking and CBT capabilities.

Recovery

Bare-metal recovery Restore your entire system to the same or different hardware. Additional administration tools to support
complex configurations are included, such as RAID management, Network Manager, LUKS2 tools and
others, as well as an improved disk layout management for your convenience.

Volume-level recovery Restore a failed drive or partition.

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File-level recovery Restore individual files in minutes.

Export as virtual disk Export a backup to a virtual disk in the VHD format.

Application-Aware Processing
Application-aware processing for Oracle Create application-consistent backups with advanced application-aware processing for Oracle.

Application-aware Create application-consistent backups with advanced application-aware processing for MySQL.
processing for MySQL

Application-aware processing for Create application-consistent backups with advanced application-aware processing for PostgreSQL.
PostgreSQL

Pre-freeze/post-thaw snapshot scripts Specify scripts for application-aware processing to create transactionally consistent backups.

File indexing and search Create an index of files and directories located on the Veeam Agent computer during backup.
File indexing allows you to search for specific files inside Veeam Agent backups and perform 1-click
restore in Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager.

Backup Targets
Object Storage Back up to on-premises or cloud object storage. Back up requires workstation or server license.
Recovery is avaialble in all editions.

Local storage Back up to locally attached storage.

Shared folder Back up to an SMB or NFS share.

Veeam backup repository Define any Veeam Backup & Replication repository as a target for Veeam Agent jobs to eliminate backup
infrastructure complexity. This includes HPE StoreOnce Catalyst, EMC Data Domain, and ReFS. Community
Edition does not support third-party storage integrations. Enterprise storage integration requires primary
storage to be registered in Veeam Backup & Replication server as a repository.

Veeam Cloud Connect repository Get your backups off-site with fully integrated, fast and secure backup and restore from the cloud
through a Veeam-powered service provider of your choice.

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Veeam Agent for Linux Community Workstation Server Notes

Backup Options
Snapshotless file-level backup Back up files from file systems that are not supported by veeam snapshot and change-
tracking module.

Local storage Utilizing multiple backup schedules for different datasets by creating multiple backup jobs to
help achieve the desired RPO. Workstation edition only provides the ability to create an unlimited
number of backup jobs to a Veeam Cloud connect repository plus a single backup job to any Veeam
supported backup repository.

Source-side encryption Protect your information from unauthorized access, especially if you back up sensitive data to
remote locations.

Pre/post job scripts Execute custom scripts before and/or after the backup job.

Push files to recovery media Keep the most important files, such as network or storage settings, in Recovery Media.

Job Queueing If jobs overlap for any reason, jobs will automatically queue until previous one is completed, and
begin as scheduled.

Retention and Scheduling

Independent built-in scheduler Allows for flexibility without having to rely on the system’s built-in scheduler.

Retention based on restore points Specify the exact number of restore points that you would like to keep.

GFS Store backup files for long periods of time with specific GFS flags.

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Veeam Agent for Linux Community Workstation Server Notes

Standalone Deployment and Configuration

Snapshot kernel module binaries Ensure security and easier installation of veeam snapshot and change-tracking module.
prebuilt and digitally signed by Veeam

Source .deb and .rpm veeam snapshot Ensure security and easier installation of veeam snapshot and change-tracking module.
and change-tracking module packages

Integration with Veeam Backup & Replication

Agent management Organize, automate and deploy Linux backups with Veeam Agent protection groups — Create groups based
on Active Directory or CSV files and configure custom automatic update and deployment schedules.

Integration with software Protection group (PG) for pre-installed agents — This protection group type provides a convenient way to
deployment tools install agents using third-party software distribution solutions, when deploying them from the backup server
is not possible due to security and network connectivity restrictions. The PG wizard creates a custom
agent installation package that enables agents to connect to the backup server automatically using the PKI-
based authentication with a single-use certificate. The backup server then places an incoming agent into
the protection group that created the installation package and issues a new permanent authentication
certificate. At which point, you can use the agent in “managed by agent” backup policies normally.

Managed jobs Control and manage backup activity for servers via the Veeam Backup & Replication server.

Managed policies Create and distribute a backup job configuration across laptops, desktops and servers.

Export as virtual disk Restore computer disks as VMDK, VHD or VHDX files.

Secure Bare Metal Recovery with Create a secured and controlled recovery environment by generating recovery tokens for granular
Recovery Tokens access to machines

Instant VM Recovery® Provides additional data recovery and portability options, enabling you to instantly recover ANY
Veeam backup to VMware vSphere and Hyper-V within minutes — reducing downtime.

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Direct Restore to AWS/ Microsoft Restore or migrate on-premises, Linux-based physical servers, workstations and endpoints directly
Azure/Azure Stack — part of Veeam to AWS, Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Azure Stack.
Cloud Mobility

Application item recovery Utilize Veeam Explorer™ to search for and restore items from Oracle and PostgresSQL.

Integration with Veeam Service Starting with Veeam Service Provider Console v5, Veeam Agent for Linux can be managed by Veeam Service
Provider Console Provider Console.

Security & Compliance

Deployment in IPv6 environments Veeam agent is fully prepared to operate in the modern data centers configured with IPv6 networking.

Deployment in Kerberos-only Move security to a new level with the possibility to run all Veeam agents in the Kerberos-only environments.
environments

FIPS compliance Veeam agent uses FIPS-compliant cryptographic APIs and modules.

Technical Support

24.7.365 Technical Support Get 24.7.365 enterprise-level technical support when you need it with your VUL-enabled products.
Please Note: Veeam does not provide phone support for Community, Free, or NFR licensed products.
Email support is provided on a best-effort basis depending on staff availability, but there are no
response goals or response guarantees for this service.

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Veeam Agent for Mac Community Workstation Notes

Backup
File-level Back up specific files and directories.

User profile Simply enable “back up entire user profile” to ensure no important files are missed.

Recovery
File-level recovery Restore individual files or folders quicky and easily.

User profile Recover an entire user profile to the same or new device

Backup Targets
Object Storage Back up to on-premises or cloud object storage. Back up requires workstation or server license. Recovery is avaialble in
all editions.

Local storage Back up to locally attached storage.

Veeam backup repository Define any Veeam Backup & Replication repository as a target for Veeam Agent jobs to eliminate backup infrastructure
complexity. This includes object storage, HPE StoreOnce Catalyst, EMC Data Domain, and ReFS. Community Edition does
not support third-party storage integrations. Enterprise storage integration requires primary storage to be registered in
Veeam Backup & Replication server as a repository.

Veeam Cloud Connect Get your backups off site with fully integrated, fast and secure backup and restore from the cloud through a Veeam-
repository powered service provider of your choice.

Backup Options

Resume Backup In the event of an interuption due to a network or power outtage, resume backup sessions right where they stopped
rather than start it from the beginning.

Multiple backup jobs Utilizing multiple backup schedules for different datasets by creating multiple backup jobs helps achieve the desired RPO.
Workstation edition only provides the ability to create an unlimited number of backup jobs to a Veeam Cloud connect
repository plus a single backup job to any Veeam supported backup repository. (Note: Requires server edition to have
multiple backup jobs pointed to targets other than cloud connect).

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Source-side encryption Protect your information from unauthorized access, especially if you back up sensitive data to remote locations.

Compression Decrease backup storage requirements and network traffic with built-in compression. Multiple compression options let
you balance storage consumption and performance.

Job Queueing If jobs overlap for any reason, jobs will automatically queue until previous one is completed, and begin as scheduled.

Retention and Scheduling

Retention based on Specify the exact number of restore points that you would like to keep.
restore points

Flexible scheduling Daily scheduling is available. (Note: available in server edition which enables flexible scheduling like daily, weekly, monthly and
periodic backups).

Deployment and Agent Management

Integration with software Protection group (PG) for pre-installed agents — This protection group type provides a convenient way to install agents using
deployment tools third-party software distribution solutions, when deploying them from the backup server is not possible due to security
and network connectivity restrictions. The PG wizard creates a custom agent installation package that enables agents to
connect to the backup server automatically using the PKI-based authentication with a single-use certificate. The backup server
then places an incoming agent into the protection group that created the installation package and issues a new permanent
authentication certificate. At which point, you can use the agent in “managed by agent” backup policies normally.

Agent backup policy jobs Create and distribute backup job configurations across laptops, desktops and workstations.

Search and 1-click restore Restore files with one-click through a web UI.

Integration with Veeam Starting with Veeam Service Provider Console v5, Veeam Agent for Mac can be managed by Veeam Service
Service Provider Console Provider Console.

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Veeam Agent for Mac Community Workstation Notes

Security and Compliance

Deployment in IPv6 Veeam agent is fully prepared to operate in the modern data centers configured with IPv6 networking.
environments

FIPS compliance Veeam agent uses FIPS-compliant cryptographic APIs and modules.

Technical Support

24.7.365 Technical Support Get 24.7.365 enterprise-level technical support when you need it with your VUL-enabled products. Please Note: Veeam
does not provide phone support for Community, Free, or NFR licensed products. Email support is provided on a best-effort basis
depending on staff availability, but there are no response goals or response guarantees for this service.

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