Agents - Functionality

Functionality of the agents and backup options

Last adaption: 03.2023 (1.2)

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Der Linux Agent unterstützt BMR Backups nur auf BIOS-Systemen und nicht auf UEFI-Systemen!

Agents can either be installed

Operating systems and backup options

Backup Agenten
System	Supported version	Backup options
Windows Agent	Windows Server 2008 – 2019 Windows 7 - 10	File-based backup Image-based backup BMR backups MS-SQL and MS-Exchange including transaction protocols Oracle databases Backup of network shares
Hyper-V Agent	Windows Server 2008 - 2019	Full VMs (BMR) Granular restoration Backup and truncation of transaction protocols for Exchange and MS-SQL
Linux Agent	Ubuntu Debian CentOS Red Hat SuSE Supported file systems are: ext2, ext3, ext4, XFS, GFS, ReiserFS, JFS. (BTRFS is not supported!)	BMR backup File-based backup Oracle databases Backup of network shares
	vSphere 6.0 – vSphere 6.7 (Update 3b) vSAN 6.5 – vSAN 6.7 (Update 3b) ESXi 6.0 – ESXi (Update 3b)	Full VMs (BMR) Backup and truncation of transaction protocols for Exchange and MS-SQL.

Overview of functions

Function	Agent-based Windows	Agent-based Linux	Host-based VMware²	Hostbasiert Hyper-V
BMR (backup of the entire host)	¹	( )
Restore in Infrastructure as a Service Cloud		-	-	-
Backup network shares			-	-
Script-based control				-
Backup of physical server			-	-
Backup of virtual server
VSS support		-
Backup of files and folders			-	-
Restoring files and folders
Backup sensors (Servereye, PRTG, Nagios,..)
Extension through plug-ins	³	⁴	-	-
Initial backup to HDD/FTP				-
Backup Retry function				-
Protocol shortening (MS Exchange and MS SQL)		-
Agent Upgrade Center		-	-	-
Free backup clients