WAN Acceleration to External Storage (e.g. AWS S3)

[darren.poyner]

We are copying/moving backups to out AWS S3 object storage. To do this, we are using a SOBR with an onsite performance tier and an offsite capacity tier (AWS S3 bucket). It works, but we have limited bandwidth out to AWS from our sites (some being in remote locations) and so the tiering process is taking a long time. It can also cause network congesting on the WAN. Veeam has invested in WAN acceleration technology to increase network performance/reduce network load, but unfortunately, you cannot use a WAN accelerator for this purpose. Ideally, we would run a WAN accelerator as an EC2 instance in AWS which then writes data to an S3 bucket. In the same way, data restored from S3 would be retrieved through this WAN accelerator running in AWS.

Can this be added as a feature request?

[Mildur]

Hi Darren

Thanks for the request. You are right, it's not possible today.
When we do the S3 Storage offload, only unique (already compressed) blocks are uploaded to the S3 Storage.
May I ask, what's your incremental backup size each day and what's the available bandwidth?

Thanks
Fabian

[Andreas Neufert]

For that sitaution AWS has created AWS Snowball Edge
https://aws.amazon.com/snowball/?nc1=h_ls

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

[darren.poyner]

Hi Darren

Thanks for the request. You are right, it's not possible today.
When we do the S3 Storage offload, only unique (already compressed) blocks are uploaded to the S3 Storage.
May I ask, what's your incremental backup size each day and what's the available bandwidth?

Thanks
Fabian

Hi Fabian.

I missed your reply. We have lots of remote sites of different sizes, at the end of WAN links on different bandwidths, and different utilizations. I am not sure providing stats will assist.

What I would like to know is, are there any plans for using your WAN acceleration technology between on-premise and cloud object storage?

Thanks.
Darren

[Mildur]

Hi Darren

Thanks.
We don't have plans to introduce this feature for S3 Offloads.
But we will count it as +1.

Thanks
Fabian