Archive Tier

Archive tier is an additional tier of storage that can be attached to a scale-out backup repository. You can transfer data to the archive tier directly from the performance tier or from the capacity tier. To transfer data to the archive tier, the archiving job session runs periodically. Archived data in the archive tier is cheaper than in the performance and capacity tier. However, restoring data from the archive tier is longer and more expensive compared to the capacity tier. Data must be prepared for restore from the archive tier.

This feature is most useful in the following cases:

• You have a lot of rarely (no more than once a quarter) accessed data that has to be stored in an archive.
• You want to save costs and space on storing archived data.

Supported Types of Object Storage Repositories

The archive tier consists of a single archive extent. One of the following cloud-based object storage repositories providing "cold" data storage can be added as the archive extent:

• Amazon S3 Glacier.
• S3 compatible object storage with data archiving.
• Microsoft Azure Archive Storage.

Before an object storage repository can be configured as the archive extent, it must be added to Veeam Backup & Replication backup infrastructure. For more information, see Adding Amazon S3 Glacier Storage or Adding Azure Archive Storage.

You can add the archive extent to your scale-out backup repository and configure its settings on the Add Archive Tier step of the New Scale-out Backup Repository wizard.

Direct Data Transfer to Archive Tier

Veeam Backup & Replication supports direct data transfer from the performance tier to the archive tier if your scale-out backup repository has the following configuration:

• The performance tier consists of direct attached storage (Microsoft Windows Server, Linux Server) and the archive tier consists of all supported types of object storage repositories.
• The performance tier consists of network attached storage (SMB (CIFS) Share, NFS Share) and the archive tier consists of all supported types of object storage repositories.
• The performance tier consists of Amazon S3 Storage and the archive tier consists of Amazon S3 Glacier Storage.
• The performance tier consists of Azure Blob Storage and the archive tier consists of Azure Archive Storage.
• The performance tier consists of S3 Compatible Object Storage and the archive tier consists of all supported types of object storage repositories.
• The performance tier consists of IBM Cloud Object Storage and the archive tier consists of S3 compatible object storage with data archiving.
• The performance tier consists of Wasabi Cloud Object Storage and the archive tier consists of S3 compatible object storage with data archiving.

Supported Types of Backup Files

The following types of backup files are supported for archive storage:

• Backup files with GFS flags.
• VeeamZIP backup files.
• Exported backup files.
• Orphaned backups with GFS flags.

• Backups created by Veeam Backup for Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager and Red Hat Virtualization.
• Backups exported by Kasten policies.

In This Section

• Limitations for Archive Tier
• Archiving Job
• Archive Extent Structure
• Immutability for Archive Tier
• Encryption for Archive Tier
• Managing Archive Tier
• Restore from Archive Tier