Object Storage Repositories

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
Wasabi Cloud Storage
Microsoft Azure Blob, Azure Archive Storage and Azure Data Box

You can use object storage repositories as target repositories in the following ways:

As target repositories for backup jobs and backup copy jobs.
As target repositories for file share backup jobs.

Important

You can not keep backups created by file share backup jobs in object storage repositories if they are added as performance extents of the scale-out backup repository.

As target repositories for backups of VMware Cloud Director virtual machines created by Veeam Backup & Replication.

As target repositories for backups of virtual and physical machines created by Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows or Veeam Agent for Linux.
As target repositories for backups of macOS physical machines created by Veeam Agent for Mac.

As target repositories for backups of Nutanix AHV virtual machines created by Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV.

As target repositories for backups of RHV VMs created by Veeam Backup for RHV.

As target repositories for backups of K10 environment created with Veeam Plug-in for Kasten K10.
As target repositories for backups of configuration database created by Veeam Backup & Replication.

You can also use object storage repositories as the following parts of the scale-out backup repository:

As a part of Performance Tier. Performance tier helps you quickly access the stored data. For more information, see Performance Tier.
As a part of Capacity Tier. Capacity tier of scale-out backup repository helps you offload existing backup data directly to cloud-based object storage. For more information, see Capacity Tier.
As a part of Archive Tier. Archive tier of scale-out backup repository helps you transport infrequently accessed data from the capacity tier for archive storage. For more information, see Archive Tier.

Object Storage Repository Deployment

To communicate with an object storage repository, Veeam Backup & Replication uses a VMware backup proxy to transfer data and a mount server to process guest OS applications and perform item recovery.

Depending on the type of a job, a VMware backup proxy connects to the object storage repository using one of the following options:

Directly - in this case, a VMware backup proxy transfers data directly to the object storage repository.

Using a gateway server - in this case, a VMware backup proxy transfers data to the object storage repository through a gateway server.

Tip

If a backup job backs up multiple VMs, you can use several gateway servers and combine them into a gateway pool to process data. For more information, see Gateway Server.

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