Managing Repositories

Google Cloud Plug-in for Veeam Backup & Replication uses Google Cloud storage buckets as target locations for image-level backups of VM instances and Cloud SQL instances. To store backups in Google Cloud buckets, you must configure repositories. A repository is a specific folder created by Veeam Backup for Google Cloud in a bucket.

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

Standard repositories

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

To store backups of VM and Cloud SQL instances in a standard repository, first add it to the backup infrastructure and then enable image-level backup in the backup policy settings. For more information, see the Veeam Backup for Google Cloud User Guide, sections Performing VM Backup and Performing Cloud SQL Backup.

Archive repositories

Use repositories of the Archive storage class to store data that you plan to access less than once a year. Backups stored in these repositories are shown under the External Repository (Archive) node.

To store backups of VM and Cloud SQL instances in an 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 Google Cloud User Guide, sections Performing VM Backup and Performing Cloud SQL Backup.

To learn how backup archiving works, see the Veeam Backup for Google Cloud 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 VM instances and entire Cloud SQL instances from backups stored in archive repositories. However, you can perform disk and file-level restore operations from these backups using the Veeam Backup for Google Cloud appliance Web UI. For more information, see the Veeam Backup for Google Cloud User Guide, sections Performing Disk Restore or Performing File-Level Restore.

For more information on storage classes offered by Cloud Storage, see Google Cloud documentation.

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