Veeam Agent - Supported Operating Systems

Although it may be technically possible to get the Veeam agent running on operating systems that are not listed below, we can only officially support the following Operating Systems:

Windows

System Requirements - Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows Guide

Both 64-bit and 32-bit (where applicable) versions of the following operating systems are supported1:

Microsoft Windows Server 2022

Microsoft Windows Server 2019

Microsoft Windows Server 2016

Microsoft Windows Server General Availability Channel (from version 1803 to version 20H2)

Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2

Microsoft Windows Server 2012

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SP12

Microsoft Windows 11 (versions 21H2, 22H2)

Microsoft Windows 10 (from version 1909 to version 22H2)3

Microsoft Windows 10 Long-Term Servicing Channel (versions 2015, 2016, 2019)

Microsoft Windows 8.1

Microsoft Windows 7 SP1

File System

Microsoft Windows FAT32/exFAT, NTFS, ReFS file systems are supported.

Linux

System Requirements - Veeam Agent for Linux User Guide 

Linux kernels version 2.6.32 to version 6.1 are supported.

Veeam Agent supports the 64-bit versions of the following distributions:

Debian 10.13 – 11.6

Ubuntu 16.04, 18.04, 20.04, 22.04 and 22.10

RHEL 6.4 – 9.1

CentOS 7

Oracle Linux 6 – 9.1 (RHCK)

Oracle Linux 6 (starting from UEK R2) – Oracle Linux 8 (up to UEK R6)

Oracle Linux 8 (UEK R7) — for information on installation, see this Veeam KB article.

Oracle Linux 9 (up to 5.15.0-6.80.3.1.el9uek)

SLES 12 SP4, 12 SP5, 15 SP1 – 15 SP4

SLES for SAP 12 SP4, 12 SP5, 15 SP1 – 15 SP4

Fedora 36 and 37

openSUSE Leap 15.3 and 15.4

openSUSE Tumbleweed has an experimental support status. For details about experimental support, see this Veeam KB article.

Veeam Agent supports 32-bit versions for RHEL 6 and Oracle Linux 6 distributions only.

File System

Veeam Agent for Linux supports consistent snapshot-based data backup for the following file systems:

Btrfs (for OSes that run Linux kernel 3.16 or later)

Ext 2/3/4

F2FS

FAT16

FAT32

HFS

HFS+

JFS

NILFS2

NTFS

ReiserFS

XFS

The supported file system (except for Btrfs) can reside on a simple volume or LVM2 volume; volumes protected with encryption software such as dm-crypt are supported. Btrfs is supported only if it resides directly on a physical device with no additional abstraction layers (such as LVM, software RAID, dm-crypt and so on) below or above it.

Data that resides on other file systems and volumes (including NFS and SMB shares) can be backed up using the snapshot-less mode. For details, see Snapshot-Less File-Level Backup.