Archiving tapes on AWS VTL

[CoffeeCup]

Hello,

We are in the process of setting up the offsite backup to AWS for two of our VMs. According to the policy we have to keep weekly backups for a year – the one (the latest) will be active (hosted on S3) while all previous ones will be archived (moved to Glacier).
I’m planning to use AWS VTL for this scenario (each virtual tapes would hold hold one weekly backup) but wonder if Veeam be able to archive the tapes automatically? According to the AWS documentation from here http://docs.aws.amazon.com/storagegatew ... Veeam.html it’s a manual process but I wonder if it could be set up through the Media Pool policy.

Is there more efficient way to set up offsite backup to AWS other then VTL to implement this scenario? Unfortunately CloudConnect is not currently the option.

Thank you very much,

[infused]

I think it's automatic if you vault it as part of the media pool. I'm testing this myself.

[infused]

Hello,

We are in the process of setting up the offsite backup to AWS for two of our VMs. According to the policy we have to keep weekly backups for a year – the one (the latest) will be active (hosted on S3) while all previous ones will be archived (moved to Glacier).
I’m planning to use AWS VTL for this scenario (each virtual tapes would hold hold one weekly backup) but wonder if Veeam be able to archive the tapes automatically? According to the AWS documentation from here http://docs.aws.amazon.com/storagegatew ... Veeam.html it’s a manual process but I wonder if it could be set up through the Media Pool policy.

Is there more efficient way to set up offsite backup to AWS other then VTL to implement this scenario? Unfortunately CloudConnect is not currently the option.

Thank you very much,

My comment before was correct. I've just written a guide on it now http://www.tecfused.com/2017/07/veeam-a ... ary-guide/

[Dima P.]

According to the AWS documentation from here http://docs.aws.amazon.com/storagegatew ... Veeam.html it’s a manual process but I wonder if it could be set up through the Media Pool policy.

You can perform export (as a pat of backup to tape job) and move such tape to vault named AWS. If you want to shelf such tapes at amazon side this should be performed manually via Amazon console.

[infused]

Really? Moving to a vault seems to move it to glacier @ aws. Looking at their documentation they insist the backup software will do everything.

[Dima P.]

infused,

I was referring to tape vaults in Veeam B&R console (entity for offline media tracking). I assume AWS move tape to glacier when you shelf them, is that correct?

[shlomia]

Hi, I've been looking around and I couldn't find any full guide on how to configure Veeam to work with Amazon Glacier..
I'm kinda lost and I'm about to purchase glacier storage..

[PTide]

Hi,

Currently there is no option to send backups directly to Glacier, however you might be interested in archiving option. Or you can stick with Cloud Connect solution.

Thanks