Managing Repositories

AWS Plug-in for Veeam Backup & Replication uses Amazon S3 buckets as target locations for image-level backups of EC2 instances, additional copies of Amazon VPC backups and indexes of EFS file systems. To store backups in Amazon S3 buckets, you must configure repositories. A repository is a specific folder created by Veeam Backup for AWS in a bucket.

Depending on whether you want to store backups in a high-performance, high-cost and short-term storage, or a secure, low-cost and long-term storage, you can configure repositories of the following storage classes:

Standard repositories

Use repositories of the S3 Standard storage class to store data that you plan to access frequently. Backups stored in these repositories are shown under the External Repository node.

To store backups in a standard repository, first add it to the backup infrastructure and then enable image-level backups, VPC backup copy or EFS indexing in the backup policies settings. For more information, see the Veeam Backup for AWS User Guide, sections Creating EC2 Backup Policies, Editing VPC Configuration Backup Policy and Creating EFS Backups.

[Applies only to EC2 backups] Archive repositories

Use repositories of the S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval storage class to store data that you plan to access infrequently, and S3 Glacier Deep Archive storage class to store data that you plan to access once or twice a year. Backups stored in these repositories are shown under the External Repository (Archive) node.

To store backups in archive repository, first add it to the backup infrastructure and then enable backup archiving for any backup policy that will store backups in this repository. For more information, see the Veeam Backup for AWS User Guide, section Creating EC2 Backup Policies.

To learn how backup archiving works, see the Veeam Backup for AWS User Guide, section Enabling Backup Archiving.

Important

Note that you can perform a limited scope of operations with archive repositories from the Veeam Backup & Replication console:

You cannot edit and rescan archive repositories.
You can only restore entire EC2 instances from backups stored in archive repositories. However, you can perform volume-level and file-level restore operations from these backups using the Veeam Backup for AWS appliance Web UI. For more information, see the Veeam Backup for AWS User Guide, sections Performing Volume-Level Restore or Performing File-Level Restore.

For more information on Amazon S3 storage classes, see AWS Documentation.

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