Capacity Tier

Capacity tier is an additional tier of storage that can be attached to a scale-out backup repository. Data from the scale-out backup repository performance extents can be transported to the capacity tier for long-term storage. You can use the capacity tier with almost all types of jobs and tasks that Veeam Backup & Replication runs. For a list of unsupported scenarios, see Limitations for Capacity Tier.

This feature is most useful in the following cases:

You are running out of storage space.
Your organization policies allow you to store only a certain amount of data on your extents, while the outdated data should be stored elsewhere.
You seek to store data on several sites to ensure its safety in case of a disaster.

With capacity tier, you can perform the following operations:

Move inactive backup chains to capacity extents, as described in section Moving Backups to Capacity Tier and Manually Moving Backups to Capacity Tier.
Copy new backup files as soon as these files are created, as described in section Copying Backups to Capacity Tier.
Download data that was moved from capacity extents back to the performance extents, as described in section How Downloading from Capacity Tier Works.
Restore your data. For more information, see Restore from Capacity Tier. In particular, you can promptly restore data from the capacity tier in case of disaster without creating a scale-out backup repository anew. For more information about this feature, see Importing Object Storage Backups.

Supported Types of Object Storage Repositories

The capacity tier consists of multiple capacity extents. The capacity extent can be either a cloud-based object storage repository or on-premises object storage repository, such as:

S3-compatible object storage repository
Amazon S3
AWS Snowball Edge
Microsoft Azure Blob storage
Microsoft Azure Data Box
IBM Cloud Object storage
Google Cloud Object storage
Wasabi Cloud Object storage
Veeam Data Cloud Vault

Before an object storage repository can be configured as the capacity extent, it must be added to Veeam Backup & Replication. For more information, see Adding Object Storage Repositories.

The capacity extents are displayed in the scale-out backup repository wizard, on the Capacity Tier step.

For information on configuring capacity tier and synchronizing capacity tier data, see Add Capacity Tier.

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