This is an archive version of the document. Starting from version 9, the Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure User Guide is part of the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide. To get the most up-to-date information, see the current version.

Managing Repositories

Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure uses blob containers as target locations for image-level backups of Azure VMs, backups of Azure SQL databases Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL accounts and Cosmos DB for MongoDB accounts, and backup copies of virtual network configurations. To store backups in blob containers, configure repositories. Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure version 8.1 comes with 2 types of repositories:

Backup repository — a folder created by Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure in a blob container that resides in a specific Azure storage account managed by Azure users in Microsoft Azure.
Storage vault — a folder created by Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure in a blob container that resides in a specific Azure storage account managed by Veeam in Veeam Data Cloud Vault.

Important

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

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