Backup Copy

To enhance protection of your data against disasters, you can extend your backup jobs with backup copy capabilities.

The following table lists the supported cloud and on-premises services that Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 supports as a source and target for backup copy jobs. Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 transfers backed-up data from object storage eligible as a source for backup copies to a target object storage.

Storage format of backup copies differs from storage format of backups: blob files in backup copies are larger. Repacking of backed-up data is performed by either Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 backup proxy or an auxiliary archiver appliance that Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 can create in Microsoft Azure or Amazon EC2.

Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 allows you to protect data in backup copies from loss as a result of attacks, malware activity or any other injurious actions that may be performed by 3rd party applications. For more information about protecting data in backup copies, see Immutability.

As well as backup, backup copy is a job-driven process. You can create a backup copy job right after configuring a backup job or at any time later. For more information, see Creating Backup Copy Job.

Getting Started with Backup Copy

Before you start creating a backup copy job to protect your backups, you must perform the following actions in the Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 backup infrastructure:

1. Add object storage to Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365. Do the following:

1. Add object storage where you want to keep your backups.
2. Add object storage that you want to use as a target for backup copy jobs.

For more information, see Object Storage Usage Scenarios and Adding Object Storage.

2. Add backup repositories to Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365. Do the following:

1. Add a backup repository extended with object storage where you want to keep your backups. You will use this backup repository as a target for your backup jobs.
2. Add a backup repository extended with object storage where you want to keep your backup copies. You will use this backup repository as a target for your backup copy jobs.

For more information, see Extended Backup Repositories and Adding Backup Repositories.

3. Create a backup job. In the backup job settings, specify the extended backup repository where you want to keep your backups. For more information, see Specify Backup Proxy and Repository.
4. Create a backup copy job for the backup job created at step 3. In the backup copy job settings, specify the target repository where Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 will copy your backed-up data. For more information, see Creating Backup Copy Job.

After Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 has created backup copies, you can do the following:

• Retrieve your backup copies.

You must first retrieve backup copies if you have selected a backup repository extended with Azure Blob Storage Archive access tier, Amazon S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval or Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive storage classes as a target for a backup copy job. For more information, see Retrieving Backed-Up Data. Data that you have retrieved become available for explore and restore. For more information, see Exploring Retrieved Data and Data Restore.

• Explore and restore backup copies.

You can start exploring and restoring data at any time you want, if you have copied your backed-up data to a backup repository extended with the following object storage:

• Azure Blob Storage Hot/Cool access tier
• Amazon S3 Standard storage class
• Amazon S3 Standard-Infrequent Access storage class
• Amazon S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval storage class
• S3 Compatible object storage

For more information, see Exploring Backup Copies and Data Restore.

In This Section

• Creating Backup Copy Job
• Managing Backup Copy Jobs
• Retrieving Backed-Up Data