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

Migrating Data Between Different Buckets or Containers

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

1. Use any available 3rd party tool to copy ALL data from an old bucket or container to a new bucket or container.
2. Add a new object storage repository to the backup infrastructure, as described in the Adding Object Storage Repositories section.
3. Set a new object storage repository as a capacity extent as described in the Add Capacity Tier section.
4. Synchronize your data, as described in the Synchronizing Capacity Tier Data section.

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.