Veeam for aws synthetic full backups

[jimleslie77]

Hi and thanks for any advice given.

Would anybody know if there is such a thing of synthetuc full backups for veaam for aws, like veram backup and replication provides?

Thanks

[Vitaliy S.]

Hi James,

There is no such thing, but can you please elaborate a bit more on why you need it in the cloud for object storage repos?

Thanks!

[jimleslie77]

I get the concept of first full then incremental forward, but that first full backup at some point would want to be archived off to a S3 Glacier tier. At that point, should it need to be refferenced to in order to restore from (from my understanding a restore would reffer to the first full then all incrementals after that to restore the latest data set) the full backup would be required to be retreaved from Glacier prior to a Veeam restore starting?

Please do correct me if my understanding is incorrect.

Thanks
Jim

[Vitaliy S.]

Hey James,

At that point, should it need to be refferenced to in order to restore from (from my understanding a restore would reffer to the first full then all incrementals after that to restore the latest data set) the full backup would be required to be retreaved from Glacier prior to a Veeam restore starting?

If we are talking about GFS, then the backup that goes to the archive is a copy of the restore point (backup) created previously, so it does not need this reference during the restore procedure. It is very close to how synthetic full backups are created. Once this backup is created and copied, it acts as an independent backup chain.

Here is a bit more info on that > Archive Backup Chain

Thanks!

[jimleslie77]

Thats a great help thanks for the information.

Interesting the concept is effectively a copy of backups to s3 glacier. So if I’m understanding correctly backup archiving to S3 glacier would not actually save by moving backups from standard s3 to s3 glacier but actually increase costs as the same historic backups would reside in both standard s3 and s3 glacier?

Thanks
Jim

[Vitaliy S.]

I wouldn't say it would increase the cost, cause you will probably have different retention settings for backup and archive chains, right? The backup will be removed sooner or later while the archive remains intact for a longer period.