You're reading from Mastering Veeam Backup & Replication 10 Protect your virtual environment and implement cloud backup using Veeam technology

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838980443

Length 332 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Hyper-V

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Author (1):

Chris Childerhose

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Installation – Best Practices and Optimizations

2. Chapter 1: Installation – Best Practices and Optimization FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: The 3-2-1 Rule – Keeping Data Safe

4. Section 2: Storage – NAS Backup, Linux, SOBR, and OBS

5. Chapter 3: NAS Backup

6. Chapter 4: Scale-Out Repository and Object Storage – New Copy Policy

7. Chapter 5: Windows and Linux – Proxies and Repositories

8. Chapter 6: Object Storage – Immutability

9. Section 3: DataLabs, Cloud Backup, and Veeam ONE

10. Chapter 7: Veeam DataLabs

11. Chapter 8: Cloud Backup and Recovery Using Veeam Cloud Connect Provider and the Insider Protection Feature

12. Chapter 9: Instant VM Recovery

13. Chapter 10:Veeam ONE

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Explaining how to use Object Storage within Veeam Backup & Replication

To use Object Storage in Veeam Backup & Replication, you add it as a standard repository. You then use it in the Capacity Tier of the SOBR or as a target archive repository for NAS Backup. Veeam Backup & Replication cannot currently write directly to object storage; however, Veeam continues to enhance its object storage capabilities and have announced that more cloud tiers will be supported (such as archive tiers).

When using Object Storage with Veeam Backup & Replication, it is intended for long-term data storage and based on either a cloud solution or an S3-compatible storage solution that can be on-premises. When used as the Capacity Tier for a SOBR, it has a few useful features:

Storage space: If your SOBR extents are starting to run out of space, adding Object Storage to the Capacity Tier allows you to tier off data to free up space in the Performance Tier.
Backup policies: If...