Object Storage Repository

An object storage repository is a repository intended for long-term data storage and based on either a cloud solution or an S3 compatible storage solution.

Veeam Backup & Replication supports the following types of object storage repositories:

Amazon S3, Amazon S3 Glacier and AWS Snowball Edge
S3 compatible
Google Cloud
IBM Cloud
Microsoft Azure Blob, Azure Archive Storage and Azure Data Box

Object storage repositories can be used in the following ways:

In Scale-Out Backup Repository as a part of Capacity Tier. Capacity tier of scale-out backup repository allows to offload existing backup data directly to cloud-based object storage such as Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure Blob storage, Google Cloud Storage, and IBM Cloud Object Storage, or using on-premises S3 compatible devices. For more information, see Capacity Tier.
In Scale-Out Backup Repository as a part of Archive Tier. Archive tier of scale-out backup repository allows to transport infrequently accessed data from the capacity tier for archive storage. For more information, see Archive Tier.
As target archive repositories for NAS Backup.

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