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.
This feature is most useful if:
- 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- Your organization policies allow you to store only a certain amount of data on your extents, while the outdated data should be stored elsewhere.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:
- Move inactive backup chains to the capacity extent, as described in 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 Copying Backups to Capacity Tier.
- Download data that was moved from the capacity extent back to the performance extents, as described in Downloading Data from Capacity Tier.
- 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.
The capacity tier consists of a single capacity extent. The capacity extent can be either cloud-based object storage repository or on-premises object storage repository, such as:
- S3-compatible object storage repository
- Amazon S3
- Microsoft Azure Blob storage
- Microsoft Azure Data Box
- IBM Cloud Object Storage
- Google Cloud Object Storage
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 extent is displayed in the scale-out backup repository wizard, on the Add Capacity Tier step.
For information on configuring capacity tier and synchronizing capacity tier data, see Add Capacity Tier.
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Before you start using the capacity tier, make sure to check the pricing plans of your cloud storage provider to avoid additional costs for offloading and downloading backup data. |
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