Sending an offsite backup copy to AWS

[gabbas]

Hi, we currently have Veeam VBR v12 with backup being sent to local repos (Tintri storage). We would like to send one offsite backup copy to AWS with immutability feature. We will only use this copy in case of our on-prem DCs become unavailable or we are hit by ransomware. Can we please get some recommendation (as best practices) to choose S3 bucket that we can use with object lock. I believe we wont need need to access this data frequently but we also don't need to store this data more than 30 days. As there are a few choices available, can we please get some advice / suggestion which one to chose as per our requirements? Many thanks

[Mildur]

Hi Ghulam

On AWS, you can use S3 Standard or S3 Infrequent Access as a Veeam object storage repository (standalone object storage repository, performance tier, capacity tier). AWS S3 Glacier is Archive Tier only, but should not be important for your question/use case.

S3 Standard-IA has a minimum storage duration of 30 days. Shorter retention will lead to higher costs. And with Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA), API costs for a restore will be higher (double), but storage costs lower.
Use the AWS billing calculator together with our Veeam's calculator to make an estimation of the monthly price.

If you try to safe money, you can also check out solutions like Wasabi where you only pay for the storage. Wasabi doesn't require you to pay for data transfer and API calls. Wasabi has an minimum storage policy of 30 days for Veeam Backups. Start your copy to Wasabi and then contact their support team to configure your account from 90 days to 30 days minimum storage policy.

Best,
Fabian

[gabbas]

Thanks Fabian, much appreciated for your advice.