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Feature Request: Backup Destination to Object Storage (S3)

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We are currently using the AWS tape gateway as our offsite backup. The tape gateways are painful, taking up huge amounts of our on-prem storage, and slow too.

It would be super nice to have a destination that I could set up for any cloud object storage provider (we use S3). Also that it would be set up in a way that would not have a lot of egress traffic from said cloud storage provider.
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Re: Feature Request: Backup Destination to Object Storage (S3)

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Hello bpr-backup.

I wonder if your goal is to setup some sort of archiving to S3 (similar to tape VTL setup) or you are looking for the possibility to use S3 as a target for your primary backup jobs? Thank you in advance.
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Re: Feature Request: Backup Destination to Object Storage (S3)

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I'd like to use S3 as the target, and not have to go through any kind of storage gateways.

Not really archiving either, more like a backup copy job to S3.
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Re: Feature Request: Backup Destination to Object Storage (S3)

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Not exactly what you're looking for, but starting from Update 4 you will be able to offload backups to Amazon S3/S3 compatible storage system, as those files age out.

If that does not answer your requirements (as it seems so), you will still need to keep tape gateway at hand.

Thanks!
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