Migrating Data

If necessary, you can migrate data between several capacity tiers or within one capacity tier.

Migrating Data To Another Capacity Tier

You can migrate your data between different object storage repositories. After that, you can add a new object storage repository as a capacity extent instead of the previous repository.

The migration option may be useful if you want, for example, switch your provider.

You can migrate your data under the following scenarios:

• Migrating data between different cloud providers — use this scenario to migrate data from one type of object storage provider to another. For example, to migrate data the Amazon S3 object storage repository to the Azure Blob storage or any other storage provider.
• Migrating data between different buckets — use this scenario to migrate data between different buckets of the same cloud provider.

Migrating Data Between Different Cloud Providers

To migrate data located in an object storage repository between different cloud providers, do the following:

1. Download data from an object storage repository back to the performance extents, as described in section Downloading Data from Capacity Tier.
2. Add a new object storage repository to the Veeam Backup & Replication environment, as described in section Adding Object Storage Repositories.
3. Change an object storage repository to a new one that you have created at the previous step, as described in section Add Capacity Tier.
4. Copy or move your data to a new object storage repository, as described in section Moving to Capacity Tier.

Migrating Data Between Different Buckets

To migrate data located in an object storage repository between different buckets of the same cloud provider, do the following:

1. Use any available 3rd-party tool to copy cloud data to a different bucket of your cloud storage.
2. Add a new object storage repository to the Veeam Backup & Replication environment, as described in section Adding Object Storage Repositories.
3. Change the capacity extent to a new one that you have created at the previous step, as described in section Add Capacity Tier.
4. Synchronize your data, as described in section Synchronizing Capacity Tier Data.

Migrating Data Within One Capacity Tier

You can migrate your data between different extents of the same capacity tier.

To do this, perform the following steps:

1. Set the necessary extent to the Maintenance mode. For more information, see Switching to Maintenance Mode.
2. Evacuate backups from the extent. For more information, see Evacuating Backups from Extents