Not able to select direct Object Storage repository for backup job

[cdacTuan]

Hello,
I am trying to back up content of a nas to s3 glacier using backup and replication v12 enterprise. after creating the object storage repository to a bucket in aws, i tried to create a job but the newly created object storage repository does not show up in the drop down for me to select when creating backup job. please let me know what i am doing wrong.

thanks.

[Gostev]

Hi, direct backup to Glacier is not supported. Glacier is designed and priced for archival, not daily backups/restores (cheap storage, but very expensive API calls to write to / read from). Thanks!

[cdacTuan]

what is the use for object storage repository that you can add within Veeam if it can't be used for backing up data?

[Gostev]

As Archive Tier for scale-out backup repositories. These use automatically provisioned helper appliances to repackage backups into a special archive format with very large objects, to make using Glacier make economical sense. The best use case is basically "Write Once Read Never" as I like to say, which is quite typical for long-term archival anyway.

[cdacTuan]

thanks.