SOBR and veeam 11 to AZURE

[StevenMeier]

Hi folks,
I am looking at a scenario I would like to do but I don't think I can do it as I would like , so I would like to run it by you bright folks and see what you suggest.

I Have

Veeam 11
HPE Apollo 4510 (60 Disks) hot landing Zone...
HPE 5250 Storeonce Device for dedupe.

(We have multiple of the above box setups but I have kept it simple for this )

Presently we use the StoreOnce device to hold Monthly backups for a year and Yearly backups for 10 years.

No issue it works fine.

Going forward to save on Disk cost etc as time goes by. We would like to shift our Yearly backups using Veeam to azure long term Storage.

We use azure now for various bits and pieces so access to Azure is not an issue.

Its only from the Veeam point of view.....How best do I do this.

I am not using SOBR at the moment as I have no need too...but it looks like me doing this setup is dependent on using SOBR.(or am I wrong in how it can be used)

Wise folks enlighten me.....

[Mildur]

You need a SOBR, a performance tier and a Capacity Tier and a Archive Tier. You should already have a Veeam Enterprise License because you are using Dedup Appliance. With Veeam V11, there is the new Archive Tier which you are looking for.

Configure a SOBR with this Storages:
You can use the HPE Apollo 4510 as a performance tier.
From there, your backups will be offloaded (copy or move Policy) to Azure Blob Storage, the Capacity Tier.
Then you can define a move Policy to Azure Archive Storage. This will be your Archive Tier.

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... ml?ver=110

[HannesK]

Hello,
just a small addition to Mildur's answer: archive tier is an Enterprise+ feature. But with VUL (Veeam universal licensing) that's Enterprise+ anyway.

In general, "the cloud" is often more expensive - I'm curious how the calculation works for you

Best regards,
Hannes

[Mildur]

Yes, sorry.
Forgot about the that before my morning coffee

[StevenMeier]

So what I have read is correct. I can't really do it.

I dont need a performance tier, I have that in spades, I just need to be able to archive off to azure Yearly backups.
I essentially need to change our backup setup to cater for a very small piece of what we do as an organisation......which does seem a bit silly.
I just want to in this case archive of Yearly backups to cloud to cold storage (write once and never read it again).
The cost as asked by someone....this is not an issue while cost is a factor it is small as this option of having yearly backups off site in the cloud is more an extra precaution.

[HannesK]

maybe a VTL can do that? https://www.veeam.com/blog/archiving-to ... d-vtl.html

Amazon has a VTL built-in. Maybe Azure has something similar that I didn't find.