Either leverage object-based storage, or just go to a CC provider like iland (or Quest if you really want the lowest price). You will spend a fortune with everything that is required. As such, this is a compromise of sorts that allows some form of backup to object-based storage, but you need the licensing to support it, and you also give up potentially important things that CC providers can offer like WAN Acceleration.ĭon't bother spinning up EC2 instances with EBS volumes. Veeam technically could allow direct backups to external repositories in their copy jobs, but the issue is that they have a lot of partners that have invested heavily into the Cloud Connect system, and making that process "too easy" would eat into that business and piss off their partners. Still, the "core" purpose of a SOBR is tiering, not as a replacement for copy jobs. This means you can use it as a quasi-copy job as it will keep two copies-one offsite and one onsite. Veeam Backup for AWS is a solution developed for protection and disaster recovery tasks for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) environments. In Veeam v10, they have added a new ability to allow instant duplication to the capacity tier. It just runs a lot slower if you chose an RP in S3. As far as Veeam is concerned, the SOBR is one repo, so any restores/Instant VM Recovery/etc. A SOBR is just a container for extents and the Capacity Tier. This feature is also fully supported via the RESTful API, making it easy to automate the deployment.
By utilizing either automatic or manual installation mode, you can customize the installation to your companys needs.
SOBRs are only available in the higher license levels of Veeam, but if you have them, you can "tier' your backups to reduce local demand on your storage.įor instance, instead of storing 28 RPs locally, you can store the most recent 7 locally and push the other 21 to S3. Veeam Backup for AWS can now be installed using the AMI deployment method. You can configure S3 (or equivalent object-based storage) as an external repo, but the only place you can use it is as a Capacity Tier option in a Scale-Out Backup Repository (SOBR). Veeam is software-defined and hardware agnostic providing the ultimate in best-in-class solutions and customer flexibility.