Veeam Backup & Replication • Rocky Linux - Continued support

Hello.
We have many Ubuntu Hardened repos out there, and they have all been solid over the years. We have recently deployed a couple Rocky Linux boxes and those work well too. Right now, Rocky is at 9.6. Do we need to worry about the rolling upgrade cadence with Rocky and the continued Veeam support or should we be holding back upgrades to make sure they are supported by Rocky? With Ubuntu, we could stay within the specific LTS and get security updates, etc and be sure it is supported by veeam since it is documented to be supported. But with Rocky it seems like the support is 9.2-9.5. And when you upgrade Rocky it does a full upgrade and not just security updates and that is currently 9.6.

We just did an upgrade on one of our repos to 9.6 and are now concerned it is outside the supported hardened repo OS's. I suppose we should have run sudo dnf upgrade --security, but we did not. With Rocky, what is the best way to keep Linux up to date with the latest security updates but within the Veeam support window?

Thanks for any feedback.
Dave

Statistics: Posted by dhayes16 — Jul 28, 2025 5:55 pm

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