We are very keen to start using the Archive Tier feature when it arrives (imminently?). We want to drop tapes in favour of cloud storage.
I have only needed to use standard repositories until now, so am creating a new scale-out repo in advance and a few things have cropped up.
- Veeam Backup Config: In B&R settings, I have the config backups going to the same repo my servers are backed up to. However, when I attempt to create the new scale-out repo and select the server repo, it complains that the repo is a target for 'Backup Configuration Job' and is not supported by scale-out repos.
- We use Veeam for Office 365, which has its own repository. However, I would like the O365 backups, to also live in the same cloud storage
This is fine, except, I just reconfigured my VBO jobs to use a repo on local disk on my physical VBR server, and configured the local agent (free version) to backup the volume where this repo lives (as well as the C drive).
When the agent backup finished, the VBR console did not give an option to restore any application item-level items - I just had options to restore guest files.
I presume this is because I need to upgrade to server edition of Veeam agent, which includes application-aware processing? https://www.veeam.com/agents-windows-linux-pricing.html
Can someone kindly confirm please?
Or are there other clever ways to get these two items into the same cloud storage, alongside the vm backups?