As of todays date (12.01.2025), VBR is a Windows only application.
However we can, should, and want to use Linux as a Veeamrepository,- it’s a great choice for the on-prem recovery options.
In Linux we can make use of mdadm to configure a great software RAID solution.
In conjunction with the Veeam Cloud Vault we have a very solid short-term and long-term offsite solution.
Considering the network protocols, we can make this happen in a few different ways;
-one is as a direct attached storage through iSCSI, which might be the fastest.
-Another simpler yet more versatile protocol would be NFS, coming in as the second fastest.
-A third option would be SMB, but this adds alot of uneccesary overhead and slows the traffic down.
All good and nice.
Considering the network is a “trusted” and isolated one, lets stick with NFS.
Still we would like to add as much security as possible- right!
We could configure a dedicated VLAN.
Allthough there is no authentication mecanism for NFS we can configure it with IP restrictions in the “exports” file.
We also want to enable UFW and restric NFS protocol to the Veeam host here as well.
Let’s say you wanted all the bells and whistles from the Ubuntu world, so you installed Ubuntu 25.10
Well.. you’ll run into problems.
Allthough the NFS shar will work as a Veeamrepo, we will get some issues.
The compatible Linux versions for the Linux Agent 13 are listed here:
https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/agentforlinux/userguide/system_requirements.html?ver=13
We see that the latest Ubuntu version supported is 24.04 (LTS) as of today.
So if you want to backup the configuration files, the backup will fail to this repo.
Let’s say you also want to backup the Ubuntu Veeamrepo itself, it will not be able to as the agent is not compatible.
Long story short: if you want to use Ubuntu as a repo, stick with the supported versions!
