Veeam Agent for Oracle Solaris 4.6 Release Notes
This document provides last-minute information about Veeam Agent for Oracle Solaris, including system requirements, installation and upgrade procedure, as well as relevant information on technical support, documentation, online resources and so on.
Veeam Agent for Oracle Solaris 4.6.0.1772 is available for download at https://www.veeam.com/downloads.html starting from December 3, 2024.
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System Requirements
Hardware
CPU: Oracle SPARC or Intel x86 processor.
Memory: 1 GB RAM (for standard backup and restore operations) / 4 GB RAM (for bare metal recovery).
Disk Space: 250 MB free disk space for product installation.
Network: 10 Mbps or faster network connection to a backup target.
OS
Oracle Solaris 10 1/13, 11.0–11.4 operating systems on machines based on the SPARC and Intel x86 architecture are supported.
File Systems
All file systems supported by the supported operating systems.
Software
The following utilities must be installed on the machine:
- mlocate (version 0.26-1 or later) – required for file system indexing. If your system does not have the mlocate utility, you can install it from the product installation media.
- tar – required for file system indexing, exporting and rotating logs. It is installed with the product.
- gzip – required for file system indexing, exporting and rotating logs. It must be installed separately.
- xorriso – required for creating Veeam Recovery Media.
Oracle Solaris minimal install (Core System Support Software Group) requires adding the following packages: SUMWtoo, SUNWzoneu, SUNWzoner.
Backup Target
Backup can be performed to the following disk-based storage:
- Local (internal) storage of the protected computer (not recommended).
- Direct attached storage (DAS), such as USB, eSATA or Firewire external drives.
- Network Attached Storage (NAS) able to represent itself as SMB (CIFS) or NFS share.
- Veeam Backup & Replication 12.1.2 or later backup repository.
Note that Veeam Agent for Oracle Solaris does not support backup to the following Veeam backup repositories: Veeam Cloud Connect repository, object storage repository, repository with enabled KMS encryption.
Considerations and Limitations
General
- Veeam Agent for Oracle Solaris does not back up extended attributes and ACL of backed-up files and directories.
- Veeam Agent for Oracle Solaris backs up and restores sparse files as standard data files.
- Veeam Agent for Oracle Solaris backs up and restores file system snapshots as standard data files.
- If the overall source data size significantly increases in comparison to the size of the data backed up during the previous backup job session, Veeam Agent for Oracle Solaris will create an active full backup.
Bare Metal Recovery
- Bare metal recovery to dissimilar hardware is not supported.
- Bare metal recovery of SVM configurations is not supported.
- Bare metal recovery from backups created from within non-global zones is not supported.
- Bare metal recovery only from file-level backups created by Veeam Agent version 4.0 or later is supported.
- Bare metal recovery requires a backup that includes the full contents of the root directory (the
--includedirs
option must be set to/
). - During bare metal recovery, content of ZFS volumes is not recovered.
- [For Oracle Solaris on x86 architecture] After booting from Veeam Recovery Media, the system that has only a VMXNET3 network adapter may receive only an IPv6 address and not an IPv4 address.
- For file system whose encryption has a keysource unsupported by Veeam Agent, Veeam Agent will offer to specify a passphrase to keep the encryption after restore.
- [For flexible mapping] You cannot map a ZFS pool that resides on a disk slice.
- [For flexible mapping] You cannot map the system rpool to multiple disks.
- [For flexible mapping] Any special ZFS pool configurations, such as RAIDZ, mirroring, cache devices, and so on, are ignored. All the disks assigned to the source ZFS pool are simply added together to form the target ZFS pool.
Known Issues
General
- If Veeam Agent for Oracle Solaris is installed in a global zone on Oracle Solaris 10, it is not installed automatically into non-global zones.
- If Veeam Agent for Oracle Solaris is installed in a global zone, store path in non-global zones will not be excluded automatically.
- Veeam Agent for Oracle Solaris is unable to perform file system indexing if multiple mlocate tools are present in the system.
- [For Oracle Solaris 10] If the network connection between Veeam Agent for Oracle Solaris and Veeam backup repository is interrupted during a backup or restore operation, the operation must be restarted because Veeam Agent for Oracle Solaris cannot automatically reconnect to Veeam backup server.
Bare Metal Recovery
- Paths longer than 1006 symbols cannot be restored during bare metal recovery and must be restored manually afterwards.
- During bare metal recovery, access (atime), modified (mtime) and changed (ctime) timestamps are reset for all non-empty files or directories.
- After bare metal recovery, you may need to reset, or close and open the OVMM terminal to resolve any possible issues with its behavior.
- [For flexible mapping] ZFS pools marked for destruction on the current system are not listed at the Recovery Summary step of the Recovery wizard.
Installing Veeam Agent for Oracle Solaris
To install Veeam Agent for Oracle Solaris:
- Download the installation archive from the Veeam Download page at https://www.veeam.com/downloads.html.
- Extract the contents of the installation archive to a directory that can be accessed from the machine where you want to install the product. For example, this can be a directory in the local file system or an NFS directory.
- Navigate to the directory where you extracted the archive with the cd command, and then use the following command:
- For Oracle Solaris 10 and 11 on x86 architecture:
- For Oracle Solaris 10 and 11 on SPARC architecture:
Updating Veeam Agent for Oracle Solaris
IMPORTANT |
Make sure that there are no jobs running on the host before update! |
Update from versions earlier than 2.0.0.123 is not supported. If you run an earlier version of the product, update the product to version 2.0, and then update it to version 3.0.
To update from version 2.0.0.123 or later, use the following command:
- For Oracle Solaris 10 and 11 on x86 architecture:
- For Oracle Solaris 10 and 11 on SPARC architecture:
Uninstalling Veeam Agent for Oracle Solaris
To uninstall Veeam Agent for Oracle Solaris, use the following command:
Licensing
By installing Veeam Agent for Oracle Solaris, you agree to the Veeam End User License Agreement (EULA), 3rd party components license agreements and required software license agreements. To view the license agreements, visit the following link: https://www.veeam.com/eula.html.
To work with Veeam Agent for Oracle Solaris, you must obtain a license key and install it on the protected machine.
Technical Documentation References
To view the product help, type in your terminal:
If you have any questions about Veeam Agent for Oracle Solaris, you may use the following resources:
- Product web page: https://www.veeam.com/ibm-aix-oracle-solaris-backup.html
- User guide: https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/agentforsolaris/userguide/about.html?ver=40
Technical Support
We offer email and phone technical support for customers with current subscriptions, as well as during the official evaluation period. For better experience, please provide the following when contacting our technical support:
- Version information for the product and all infrastructure components.
- Error message and/or description of the problem.
- Log files.
To submit your support ticket or obtain additional information, please visit https://www.veeam.com/support.html.
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