Veeam Backup for Azure - SQL/Cosmos DB Copy to S3

[lprivett]

Hello,

We are hoping to backup both SQL and Cosmos DBs, alongside Azure VMs, with a secondary copy out to external S3 storage. I understand this is all possible for Azure VMs through the Web UI but not for SQL and Cosmos, is there any way to configure this or a potential workaround outside of Veeam please?

Thanks!

[nielsengelen]

Hi,

We have this on our longer roadmap. For Cosmos, we do support backups for Postgres and Mongo to Azure Blob.

Which external S3 storage would you want to use?

[richardbradley]

So I am super keen on this also for Azure for SQL backups, Currently I am looking at doing an unstructured object storage backup job. Aware there maybe something hidden in the background so aiming to run the job a few hours after the SQL job and put a blackout window on the schedule to avoid it running when the job is.

Plan B should this not work would be to run a second policy in VBA but my concern there is with truncation and not seeing a copy only option for the second copy so we don't have reply issues.