During the last VeeamON event, one of the interesting announces was the possibility to run Veeam Backup & Replication Server on a Linux system!

This features was required from several year (for example, see this thread) and during those years more and more Veeam roles have been modified to run both on Windows or on Linux.

And, by the way, all the appliances used for Veeam Backup for AWS, Azure or GCP are based on Linux!

Now the announce that with the next version (v13?) will be possible deploy it on Windows or Linux Server.

VBR on Windows will remain as one of the possible deployment option, but the new Linux deployment will permit both more security and more options to increase availability.

Will be interesting see if hardening solution and RBAC models will be appliable on the new VBR on Linux, but for sure will be an important step.

I hope in compatibility with SELinux, good distribution support, the possibility to exclude local admin from becoming Veeam Admin (actually it’s impossible with the Windows version), support for Postgres with replica and, of course, full feature parity with the Linux version.

Will be a first step to have (in the future) also a virtual appliance? It could be an interesting option to provide an hardened and turnkey solution also for customers that don’t have the skill to build and managed byself.

Some details of the product (may change when v13 will be released):

• Linux version of Veeam Backup will be probably an OVA
• Should be based on an hardened version of Rocky Linux 9.2 (provided and managed by Veeam)
• No other distros will be supported (at least at the beggining)
• The Veeam Console will be web based (but is not clear if there will be also the Windows’s based console)
• Not clear yet if the Linux version will have feature parity with the Windows version (hope so)