External Repositories
An external repository is a read-only repository. You can use Veeam Backup & Replication to copy, import and restore backups created by Veeam Backup for AWS and Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure from external repositories to the cloud or on-premises repositories. This way, you can migrate workloads between cloud, on-premises and virtual infrastructures.
Veeam Backup & Replication supports the following types of external repositories:
- Amazon S3 (with Standard storage class assigned)
- Azure Blob (Hot and Cool access tier)
- Google Cloud (with Standard storage class assigned)
Deployment
To start working with backups created by Veeam Backup for AWS and Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure, you must add a repository that contains backups of Amazon EC2 instances, Azure VMs or Google Cloud VMs to the Veeam Backup & Replication infrastructure as an external repository. For more information, see Adding External Repositories.
Usage Scenarios
You can perform the following operations:
- Copy backups to on-premises repositories.
- Restore EC2 instances, Azure VMs and Google Cloud VMs to AWS.
- Restore Azure VMs, EC2 instances and Google Cloud VMs to Microsoft Azure.
- Restore EC2 instances and Azure VMs to Google Cloud.
- Restore guest OS files and folders.
- Export disks of EC2 instances, Azure VMs VMs.
- Govern retention policies.
- Perform Instant Recovery to VMware vSphere.
- Perform Instant Recovery to Microsoft Hyper-V.
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