This is an archive version of the document. Starting from version 11, the Veeam Backup for AWS User Guide is part of the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide. To get the most up-to-date information, see the current version.

Managing Backup Repositories

Veeam Backup for AWS uses Amazon S3 buckets as target locations for EC2 and RDS image-level backups, additional copies of Amazon VPC backups, indexes of EFS file systems and Veeam Backup for AWS configuration backups. To store backups in Amazon S3 buckets, configure backup repositories. A repository is a specific folder created by Veeam Backup for AWS in an Amazon S3 bucket.

Important

A backup repository must not be managed by multiple backup appliances simultaneously. Retention sessions running on different backup appliances may corrupt backups stored in the repository, which may result in unpredictable data loss.

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