RustFS as Supported Object Storage Targets

[hilto]

Hi Veeam team and community,

I wanted to raise something that I think is becoming increasingly relevant for a lot of small-to-medium deployments: the state of self-hosted S3-compatible object storage, and specifically what should be considered as supported targets going forward.

As many of you will be aware, MinIO's licensing and project direction has shifted significantly over the past couple of years. What was once a go-to, open-source, drop-in S3-compatible backend for SMB and homelab environments is now effectively off the table for a large chunk of the community, either through licensing restrictions, the AGPL implications for self-hosted integrations, or simply the project pivoting away from the small-to-medium use case it once served so well.

This leaves a real gap, and I'd like to put two projects on the radar:

RustFS

RustFS is one of the most promising drop-in replacements for MinIO right now. It's written in Rust (hence the name), S3-compatible, performance-focused. For anyone who's been running MinIO as a Veeam object storage target, whether for backup copy jobs, scale-out backup repository (SOBR) capacity tier, or immutable backups, RustFS is a natural next step worth evaluating.

Given that Veeam already works beautifully with S3-compatible targets, I'd imagine the integration story here is already pretty solid in practice. But there's real value in getting RustFS onto the officially (or at least unofficially) supported list , both for community confidence and so that it shows up when customers and admins are evaluating their stack.

I'd love to see this added to the unofficial/community-tested S3-compatible target list here on the forums, and potentially tracked for official support consideration down the line.

Project: https://rustfs.com

[Mildur]

Hi Hilton,

I split your request and moved the one for Versity S3 Gateway to an existing topic:
VersityGW as a backup target.

I’ll check with my colleagues from the Object Storage team regarding the request for adding RustFS. If we know the vendor implemented the required subset of S3 APIs, we may consider adding them to the unofficial compatibility list.

For the Veeam Ready list, RustFS would need to engage with us directly and go through the required test procedure to validate that it works as expected with our products.

Best regards,
Fabian