Viewing Snapshots and Backups

After you add Veeam Backup for AWS appliances or S3 repositories to the backup infrastructure, all snapshots and backups are displayed under subnodes of the Backups node in the Home view:

• The Snapshots subnode shows cloud-native snapshots of all protected Amazon EC2 instances.

In the working area, there is a node with the same name as your Veeam Backup for AWS appliance. Under this node, you can see all snapshots to which your appliance has access, but which do not fall under your backup policies. These are snapshots created manually or snapshots imported automatically when you add regions to backup policies.

For more information on how Veeam Backup for AWS creates cloud-native snapshots, see the Snapshot Chain section in the Veeam Backup for AWS User Guide.

• The External Repository subnode shows image-level backups created by backup policies. Here, Veeam Backup & Replication also shows decrypted backups with a special icon ().

For more information on how Veeam Backup for AWS creates image-level backups, see the Backup Chain section in the Veeam Backup for AWS User Guide.

• The External Repository (Encrypted) subnode shows encrypted image-level backups — backups stored on encrypted repositories for which you did not specify the decryption password when adding a Veeam Backup for AWS appliance.

Related Topics

• Adding Existing Veeam Backup for AWS Appliances
• Adding S3 Repositories