Tasks with Cloud Repository

Tasks on Tenant Side

Tenants can perform the following data backup and recovery tasks in Veeam Backup & Replication against the cloud repository:

Data Backup

  • VM backup
  • VMware Cloud Director backup (for VMware vSphere platform)
  • Veeam Agent backup
  • Backup copy

Backup copy is supported to a cloud repository only. Backup copy from a cloud repository is not supported.

For information about types of backups for which backup copy to the cloud repository is supported, see Backup Copy to Cloud Repository.

Data Recovery

Tenants can perform the following operations:

  • Data restore
  • Entire VM restore
  • VMware Cloud Director restore (for VMware vSphere platform)
  • VM files restore
  • VM disks restore (for VMware vSphere platform)
  • VM guest OS files restore (Microsoft Windows only. Multi-OS restore is not supported.)
  • Application items restore
  • Volume restore (for backups created with Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows)
  • Disk export (for backups created with Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows)
  • Guest OS files restore (for backups created with Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows)
  • Disk publishing
  • Instant Recovery to Nutanix AHV (requires an additional plug-in)
  • Backup export
  • File copy (manual operations)

Tasks on SP Side

In addition to data restore operations performed by the tenant, the SP can perform the following operations:

  • Instant Recovery
  • Disk restore (using Veeam PowerShell cmdlets only)
  • Disk publishing (using Veeam PowerShell cmdlets only)

Related Topics

Using Cloud Repositories

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