{"id":56306,"date":"2023-03-07T09:00:32","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T08:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/?p=56306"},"modified":"2023-03-07T17:05:16","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T16:05:16","slug":"veeam-how-to-backup-zfs-file-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/veeam-how-to-backup-zfs-file-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Veeam how to backup ZFS file system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-56472 size-full\" title=\"veeam-backup-zfs-file-system-01\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/veeam-backup-zfs-file-system-01.jpg\" alt=\"veeam-backup-zfs-file-system-01\" width=\"602\" height=\"202\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you have a Linux VM configured with the ZFS file system, the <strong>traditional snapshot-based backup<\/strong> won't be able to capture data contained in the machine.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ZFS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ZFS file system<\/a> is a particular advanced file system available in some Linux distributions that can be <strong>tricky to backup<\/strong> due to its nature.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The ZFS file system <strong>cannot be backed up with traditional snapshots<\/strong> therefore most of backup solutions based on snapshot technology may result unable to process this type of FS. If you try performing a file-level restore of a ZFS VM, the ZFS partition will result empty.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-56474 size-large\" title=\"veeam-backup-zfs-file-system-02\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/veeam-backup-zfs-file-system-02-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"veeam-backup-zfs-file-system-02\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Veeam how to backup ZFS file system<\/h2>\n<p>Because ZFS is <strong>not supported by snapshot-based<\/strong> backup, you need a specific backup configuration to process data that resides in a <strong>file system mounted to the root file system<\/strong> of the machine.\u00a0To backup these machines you need to use the Veeam Agent for Linux configured to create <strong>file-level backup <\/strong><span class=\"List_L1\"><strong>in the snapshot-less mode<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Snapshot-less mode is an option available in the <a href=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/veeam-backup-replication-v12-released\/\">Veeam<\/a> Agent <strong>file-level backup job properties<\/strong> that <strong>doesn't create a snapshot<\/strong> of the backed up volume but <strong>reads files and directories<\/strong> selected to backup and then copies data to the target backup repository.<\/p>\n<p>This article has been written for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.starwindsoftware.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">StarWind blog<\/a>\u00a0and can be found in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.starwindsoftware.com\/blog\/veeam-how-to-backup-zfs-file-system\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this page<\/a>. It covers the full procedure to <strong>backup ZFS file system in Veeam<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Test backup<\/h2>\n<p>Using the snapshot-less mode, the <strong>ZFS file system has been processed successfully<\/strong> and you are now able to restore the requested files.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-56476 size-large\" title=\"veeam-backup-zfs-file-system-03\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/veeam-backup-zfs-file-system-03-600x358.jpg\" alt=\"veeam-backup-zfs-file-system-03\" width=\"600\" height=\"358\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Although ZFS file system is not massively used in VMs, you may need to backup some servers running this file system. <strong>Snapshot-less is the option<\/strong> you need to use for a successfull backup.<\/p>\n<p>Read the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.starwindsoftware.com\/blog\/veeam-how-to-backup-zfs-file-system\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">full article<\/a>\u00a0on StarWind blog.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"signature\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/firma.jpg\" alt=\"signature\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have a Linux VM configured with the ZFS file system, the traditional snapshot-based backup won't be able to capture data contained in the machine. The ZFS file system is a particular advanced file system available in some Linux distributions that can be tricky to backup due to its nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":56472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"linkedin_93tdZWzMZc_93tdZWzMZc":"","facebook_2879994398731222_17841400390232720":"","twitter_113568041_113568041":"","mastodon_115463926174894442_115463926174894442":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[2138,933],"tags":[579,2600,2599],"class_list":["post-56306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-backup-en","category-veeam-en","tag-backup-en","tag-file-system","tag-zfs","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}