Importing Object Storage Backups

In case a disaster strikes and your Veeam Backup & Replication with a scale-out backup repository becomes unavailable, you can import into another Veeam Backup & Replication infrastructure backups located in object storage repositories added as performance, capacity or archive extents of the scale-out backup repository. Once you add the necessary object storage repositories in Veeam Backup & Replication infrastructure, you can import backups and they will become available for data recovery operations.

Consider the following:

• The Import Backups option is available only if the object storage is not a part of the scale-out backup repository.
• Before you start importing backups, make sure to add the object storage repository that stores data you want to import.
• If you have imported backups from the object storage repository, you will not be able to use it as a standalone repository when you configure a job or as an extent of a scale-out backup repository. To be able to do it, you will need to detach this object storage.
• The Import Backups option is applicable only to the Capacity Tier backups and Archive Tier backups. It does not support the unstructured data backups.
• You cannot import backups from object storage repositories added as capacity extents if all of the following conditions are met:

• The backups were created in Veeam Backup & Replication versions earlier than 13.1.
• The capacity extents were added in Veeam Backup & Replication versions earlier than 13.1 with read-only permissions.
• The object storage repository was last updated by a backup server running Veeam Backup & Replication earlier than version 13.1.

To import these backups, connect to the repository from a backup server running version 13.1 or later and take ownership of the repository.

To import backups, do the following:

1. Launch the Import Backups wizard.
2. Specify password.
3. Wait for import.
4. Finish working with the wizard.