Load Veeam Backup data to DuckDB

Veeam Backup & Replication provides a REST API for managing backup and recovery infrastructure programmatically. Everything needed to build a working Veeam Backup → DuckDB pipeline is on this page: the API's base URL, authentication, endpoints, pagination and incremental field — plus a prompt that hands the whole job to your coding agent.

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Build your Veeam Backup to DuckDB pipeline

Paste this prompt into Claude, Codex, or Cursor. The agent does the rest.

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Run uvx dlthub-init@latest to build a pipeline from Veeam Backup to DuckDB and run it on dltHub

That scaffolds a dltHub workspace and installs the dltHub AI harness — the project rules, the secrets-management skill, and the dlt MCP server your agent needs to work safely. From there it reads the Veeam Backup API, proposes the endpoints to load, then writes, runs and validates the pipeline while you review rather than type. Credentials are inspected through MCP tools, so your agent never reads secrets.toml itself. How the LLM-native workflow works →

Prefer to write it yourself? Every fact the agent uses is below.

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Veeam Backup API at a glance

These values come from the Veeam Backup API reference — the authoritative source if anything here looks out of date.

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How do I authenticate with the Veeam Backup API?

The API uses Basic HTTP Authentication for initial logon by sending a base64-encoded username:password pair in the Authorization header. Once a session is established, subsequent requests require the X-RestSvcSessionId header containing the session token returned by the server.

1. Get your credentials

Veeam APIs utilize two different authentication patterns depending on the deployment: 1) Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager REST API (port 9398) requires Basic Authentication. Send a POST request to /api/sessionMngr/ with your credentials in the Authorization header (Format: Basic <base64(username:password)>). The server returns a session token in the X-RestSvcSessionId header. 2) Veeam Backup & Replication v13+ REST API (port 9419) uses OAuth 2.0. Send a POST request to /api/oauth2/token with the grant_type=password, username, and password in the body. Include the x-api-version header. The server returns an access token in the response body, which must be passed as Authorization: Bearer <access_token> in subsequent requests.

2. Add them to .dlt/secrets.toml

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[sources.veeam_backup_source]
veeam_backup_token = "your_session_or_access_token_here"

dlt reads this file automatically at runtime. With the harness, the setup-secrets skill prompts you for the values and never handles the raw credential in chat. For production, see setting up credentials with dlt.

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What Veeam Backup data can I load into DuckDB?

These are the Veeam Backup endpoints dlt can load into DuckDB:

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How do I load only new Veeam Backup records?

The Veeam Backup API reference does not document a timestamp or sequence field for these endpoints, so there is nothing to advertise here as verified. Pick a field from the endpoints table above that increases with every write, then set it as the cursor_path.

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{"name": "sessions", "endpoint": {
    "path": "api/v1/sessions",
    # Replace with a field that increases on every write.
    "incremental": {"cursor_path": "REPLACE_ME", "initial_value": "2024-01-01T00:00:00Z"},
}}

On the first run dlt loads everything from initial_value; on every run after that it requests only what changed and appends with write_disposition="merge" if you set a primary key. See incremental loading.

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What does the generated Veeam Backup pipeline look like?

A standard dlt REST API pipeline — the same code you would write by hand, loading /api/sessionMngr/ (Enterprise Manager) and /api/oauth2/token (B&R v13+ OAuth) from the Veeam Backup API into DuckDB:

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import dlt
from dlt.sources.rest_api import RESTAPIConfig, rest_api_resources

@dlt.source
def veeam_backup_source(api_key=dlt.secrets.value):
    config: RESTAPIConfig = {
        "client": {
            "base_url": "https://<hostname>:<port>/api/",
            "auth": {"type": "bearer", "token": api_key},
        },
        "resources": [
            {"name": "sessions", "endpoint": {"path": "api/v1/sessions"}},
            {"name": "backups", "endpoint": {"path": "api/backups"}}
        ],
    }
    yield from rest_api_resources(config)


def load_veeam_backup_to_duckdb() -> None:
    pipeline = dlt.pipeline(
        pipeline_name="veeam_backup_pipeline",
        destination="duckdb",
        dataset_name="veeam_backup_data",
    )
    load_info = pipeline.run(veeam_backup_source())
    print(load_info)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    load_veeam_backup_to_duckdb()

Run it with python veeam_backup_pipeline.py. The agent iterates on this until it loads cleanly — you review and approve, rather than write it from scratch.

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How do I query Veeam Backup data in DuckDB?

dlt creates one table per resource. Query the loaded data with Python or SQL — or ask your agent to, through the MCP server's execute_sql_query tool.

Python (pandas DataFrame):

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import dlt

data = dlt.pipeline("veeam_backup_pipeline").dataset()
df = data.backups.df()
print(df.head())

SQL:

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SELECT * FROM veeam_backup_data.backups LIMIT 10;

See querying your data with dataset and exploring it in marimo notebooks.

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How do I deploy the Veeam Backup to DuckDB pipeline in production?

The pipeline runs locally, which is ideal for prototyping and one-off analysis. When you need it on a schedule, monitored on every load, and shared with your team, deploy the same dlt code on the dltHub platform — no infrastructure to maintain. The prompt above already ends with "run it on dltHub", so your agent can take it there directly.

• Deploy & schedule — run the pipeline as a managed job with automatic retries.
• Monitor — observable job queues, alerting, and load metrics for every run.
• Transform — promote raw Veeam Backup loads into governed, documented models.
• Visualize & share — explore data in notebooks and publish live dashboards instead of static screenshots.

Book a demo →

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What other destinations can I load Veeam Backup data to?

dlt loads into any of these — only the destination argument changes:

Set dlt.pipeline(destination="snowflake") and add credentials in .dlt/secrets.toml. On the dltHub platform the same pipeline runs against a managed Iceberg lakehouse. See the full destinations list.

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Next steps

• Ready for production? Book a demo of the dltHub platform →
• dlt LLM-native workflow docs
• REST API source reference
• Join the dlt community on Slack