Archiver Appliances

Archiver appliance is a temporary virtual machine that is located in the Public Cloud (AWS or Microsoft Azure). Veeam Backup & Replication uses it for the following operations:

• To transfer data from the capacity tier to the archive tier.
• To transfer data from performance tier that consist of object storage repositories to the archive tier.
• To perform health check operations of data blocks located in the performance tier.

The template for all the archiver appliances is set up at the Archiver Appliance step of the Adding Amazon S3 Glacier or Adding Azure Archive Storage wizard. You can either create the archiver appliance with the default settings, or specify the archiver appliance settings manually: set up the size of the virtual machine and cloud resources where the archiver appliance will be created.

After the archiving job is finished, all the archiver appliances are automatically deleted. If the job ends prematurely, the archiver appliances will be deleted as well. Also, any archiver appliance can be deleted if there are no more tasks for it.

Note that the archiever appliance is not used for the direct data transfer from the performance tier to the archive tier if your scale-out backup repository has the following configuration:

• Archive tier consists of S3 compatible object storage with data archiving.
• Performance tier consist of a direct attached storage or network attached storage and archive tier consist of Amazon S3 object storage or Microsoft Azure Blob storage.

In these cases, the component that transfers data depends on the connection type of the object storage repository:

• If you use the direct connection type, the data mover that runs on performance extents transfer data to the archive tier.
• If you use the connection through gateway servers, the specified gateway servers transfer data to the archive tier.