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One-off backups to S3

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Hi,
We have a routine to keep decommissioned VMs in cold storage for a specific amount of time depending on the customers wishes. To instantly free up space from our main backup storage we would like to do a one-off backup of these VMs and offload to a S3 provider.

I have tried both VeeamZIP and backup export to a new scaleout that has a local extent for staging the backups on as well as a S3 object storage. However we are finding that the SOBR tiering job is not offloading any backups to the S3 storage despite being set to move all backups older than 0 days.

Is this simply not a supported way of offloading backups?
Is it something that will be supported in a future version?
Are there any supported workarounds to get the functionality we seek?

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Re: One-off backups to S3

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Hi Frederik,

The offloading process should work. Please find a few questions below.

Have you had a chance to check that article and confirm you are trying to offload inactive chains?
What do you mean saying "However we are finding that the SOBR tiering job is not offloading any backups to the S3 storage despite being set to move all backups older than 0 days."?
Have you tried to run the offload job manually?

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Re: One-off backups to S3

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Hi,

That article only mentions scheduled backup jobs and backup copy jobs. I dont see any mention of VeeamZIP or backup export.
When running the offload job, either manually or on schedule, it returns "2019-04-16 13:08:25 :: 0 backup files will be moved to the capacity tier"

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Re: One-off backups to S3

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Both VeeamZip and exported backups cannot be offloaded to S3, at least currently. Is there any reason to use those instead of scheduled backups?

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Re: One-off backups to S3

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Since all the VMs are in cold storage/shut down there is not really any reason to have backup jobs running for them. Reason we want to offload to S3 is to save local storage space.

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Re: One-off backups to S3

Post by Gostev » 1 person likes this post

Fredrik, your feature request certainly makes sense. However, one-off backups to S3 would require Veeam to support backing up directly to S3. I am sure this functionality will come with time, once we become reasonably confident about leveraging object storage overall. Thanks!
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[MERGED] Veeamzip and object storage?

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Is there a way to utilize the age out to Object storage with a veeamzip vbk?

For example I receive legal hold request and take a veeamzip one off full backup of a vm... I need to now hold this for centuries (lol)... I can put it on a local nas sure, but would be nice to have it go out to Wasabi via placing the vbk on the local SOBR... It's a sealed chain as it's just a one off vbk, but the thing is, there would be no retention policy attached to it so there is no way for Veeam to ever delete it... Though I could probably just do it from bucket...

Having said all of that, I think veeam doesn't transmit vbk itself to wasabi and instead transmits small blocks of data which might not live on the object storage as actual vbk/vib?

Anyway.... Possible or no? If not, is the general recommendation just to throw veeamzip one off stuff onto usb drive or nas? I don't want to waste my main veeam repo space with stuff that I would likely never even need to restore from.
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Re: One-off backups to S3

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Possible or no?
Not possible
If not, is the general recommendation just to throw veeamzip one off stuff onto usb drive or nas?
Correct, removable media is the best way to store such backups.

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[MERGED] Moving One-Off Backups to S3

Post by CantThinkOfAName »

Hi,

yes, there already was a post about this topic but I think our use case is different enough to warrant a new one.

We need to archive some no longer used machines to S3. Doesn't need to directly go to S3, it's fine if we could do it the usual way (backup to Scale-Out Repo and later the Offloading Job moves it to S3).

As I understand the concept of Backup Chain Legitimacy, a backup can never become inactive if no newer full backup is created, yes?
Then, is there any way we could take one initial full backup and somehow mark it as inactive so the Offloading Job can move it? Because there will never be another backup following it, these machines are destined to be deleted afterwards.

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Re: Moving One-Off Backups to S3

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Hello!

This is not a supported use case currently... we're looking to deliver this by enabling offloading of VeeamZIP backups to object storage in future releases.

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Re: One-off backups to S3

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Hi Anton

A lot of my customers would like to have VeeamZip on a SOBR that offloads the data (from VeeamZip) to the capacity tier (s3-like storage). Maybe with 3 options
- a) offloaded after the normal period configured on the SOBR (example of my customer x: 14 days)
- B) the option on the SOBR to configure for VeeamZip a dedicated period (3 days ->rest stays for 14 days as configured)
- C) push a button that offloads earlier all VeeamZip data to the capacity tier

Looking forward to the version when VeeamZip is offloaded to S3 :)

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Re: One-off backups to S3

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I also have a requirement to use VeeamZIP to archive servers that are being decommissioned, and store them offsite in AWS S3.
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Re: One-off backups to S3

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Thanks, your feature request has been noted.
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Re: One-off backups to S3

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I would also like to have this feature added
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Re: One-off backups to S3

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I would also like to see such feature within Veeam.
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Re: One-off backups to S3

Post by veremin » 1 person likes this post

The upcoming release of Veeam Backup and Replication (v11) includes this feature. Thanks!
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Re: One-off backups to S3

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v11 has been released and now full backups created with VeeamZIP and Export Backup features are processed by the Capacity Tier policies.
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Re: One-off backups to S3

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Hi Veremin,

it also includes the movement to archive tier from capacity tier?
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Re: One-off backups to S3

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Thanks. Do you know if there is any document regarding the minimal permission for Glacier storage? Like is it for S3 bucket. Or maybe those are same?
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Re: One-off backups to S3

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We have Amazon S3 Glacier permissions documented here, it should be exactly what you're looking for. And don't forget about setting the ones mentioned in Amazon S3 Object Storage section. Thanks!
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Re: One-off backups to S3

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Is it possible to somehow narrow down those permissions required for Glacier like it was for S3 (single bucket name)?
As now those permissions are quite powerful and can affect any S3 or EC2 resource within VPC.
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Re: One-off backups to S3

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I haven't checked it personally, but you can try to limit required S3 permissions by setting bucket name as a resource parameter in JSON file (the entity the permissions are applied to) and see whether it helps - some inspiration can be taken from this KB article.

Don't think the same approach will work for EC2 permissions, though, because there is no static EC2 entity that the permissions can be assigned to - proxy appliance gets created when offload starts and gets removed as soon as it stops.

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