Object Storage Repositories

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

Starting from Veeam Backup & Replication version 12, to keep backups in object storage repositories, you no longer need to add this repository as a part of the scale-out backup repository. Instead, you can backup directly to object storage repositories. In this case, Veeam Backup & Replication will move all backups to object storage and will retain them here according to the retention policy.

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

Amazon S3, Amazon S3 Glacier and AWS Snowball Edge
S3 compatible, S3 compatible with data archiving
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.

Tip

You can also use object storage repositories as a source location from which backup copy jobs will copy restore points.

As target repositories for file backup jobs.

Important

You cannot keep backups created by file 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 oVirt VMs created by Veeam Backup for OLVM and RHV.

As target repositories for backups of applications running on Kubernetes persistent volumes created by Kasten K10 Plug-in for Veeam Backup & Replication.

Note

You can keep backups of Kasten application in object storage repositories only in case they are used as the capacity or archive extents of a scale-out backup repository. You cannot back up Kasten application directly to backup object storage repositories or in case they are used as performance extents of a scale-out backup repository.

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 allows to quickly access the stored data. For more information, see Performance Tier.
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. For more information, see Capacity Tier.
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.

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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