Couple questions about Cloud Backups/SOBR

[MikePettit]

Hello,

Been trying to use storage gateway software to allow me to write backups straight to a cloud provider over a direct connect 1Gb connection (in the same datacenter). Haven't had much luck, with the S3 buckets breaking sometimes during the backups, so I'm wondering how far things have come since I last looked at Veeam-only strategies:

1. Anything on the roadmap that you can make public about allowing an S3 cloud provider, such as Wasabi Hot Storage, to be a primary backup target (Like you can do with a Service Provider repository)? It would make my day to hear that there was some talk about this happening soon.

2. I heard that SOBR can be set to a 4 hour wait time and will shoot my backups to the "archive" repository after 4 hours of being written. The last time I researched this, I had to run another Full backup before the previous backup chain would migrate. Which would mean I needed to run a Full backup every day if I wanted my backups sent to the cloud provider every day. Not having to do the Full backup every day, and having it only be a 4 hour delay, would be amazing. I'll start some research on this, but hoping someone might be able to just quickly verify this.

Thank you very much!

[veremin]

1. Currently, you cannot use object storage as primary backup destination. However, you can attach it to Scale-Out Backup Repository as Capacity Tier and offload old restore point to it, as they age out.

2. Correct, only sealed backup chains get moved to Capacity Tier.

[Gostev]

Anything on the roadmap that you can make public about allowing an S3 cloud provider, such as Wasabi Hot Storage, to be a primary backup target

Not yet. However, it is safe to bet that this will happen one day.