Backup to AWS

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Hello
for disaster recovery purposes i wanted to copy some VMs to Cloud with the Community Edition. It seems only AWS and Azure are supported.

I was wondering about the costs, can also S3 One Zone IA be selected?
What is the result of 1000 put/copy/list requests in vmware? How does that translate to backup jobs?

As S3 One Zone IA has a minimum shelf life of 30days, i thought the best might be to do forever incremental with full backup after a while.
Lets say a full job with 100GB is running, how much requests will be the result?

[oleg.feoktistov]

Hi Thomas,

Scale-out repositories are not supported in Community Edition, so you cannot copy backups to Capacity Tier extents.
Check out our editions comparison.

I was wondering about the costs, can also S3 One Zone IA be selected?

Yes, S3 One Zone IA storage class is supported. You just need to select 'Use infrequent access storage class' and 'Store backups in a single availability zone only' checkboxes in New Object Storage Repsitory Wizard as explained here.

Lets say a full job with 100GB is running, how much requests will be the result?

Have a look at this thread.

Thanks,
Oleg

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Does community version support any cloud storage at all? In external repository i could create an repository, provide s3 credentials, choose bucket but i cannot choose any folder in the bucket so i cannot complete the configuration. Also i do not have any options like those you meantioned above (infrequent, zone).

[nielsengelen]

Thomas, external repository is used for integration with Veeam Backup for Azure or AWS. To use Object Storage you require a scale-out backup repository however this is not supported in the community edition.

If you leverage Veeam Backup for Azure or AWS, you can add those in the community edition.

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I did not ask for object storage, but i cannot use or see any aws folder in the external repository.

Do you mean i would need this: https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/V ... B081VXF1Q9

[nielsengelen]

As stated, an external repository is used for adding a repository created by Veeam Backup for Azure/AWS, this is explained in our user guide. You can't add a plain S3 bucket via this way.

An AWS folder as you state is Object Storage in the background and therefore you need a paid edition which supports a scale-out backup repository, this is not supported in the community edition.

[dalbertson]

@xrated External repo section is used for connecting to S3 with integration to our cloud native products Veeam Backup for AWS / Azure as Niels said.

Community edition does not allow connecting to Object storage for sending backups. However, you could connect to S3 as an object repo in the backup repositories section for restoring from Veeam backups that are already stored in S3.