Inmutability for azure

[Alvaro]

Hello
I have a question about the immutability of backups made by Veeam for azure 2.0.

I know currently veeam can't integrate with azure immutability

But I also know that Azure can give immutability at the container level.

I consider the following:
Veeam could make a weekly full backup and export it to an azure object container and let azure make the immutable container and therefore my backup.

Is this possible?

Thank you

[nielsengelen]

Hi Alan, Immutability is on our roadmap once Microsoft actually releases it. It is different compared to how AWS & Wasabi have it which is object-lock based compared to container-based. While it most likely will work from a technical point of view, VB for Azure will not be aware of the files in that immutable container so won't be able to restore from it unless u import them which will lead to duplicate views in the UI. I wouldn't recommend this approach for now.

When we will add it is hard to tell, Microsoft did release the API's but they haven't officially released them. VB for Azure isn't the only one waiting for it, VBR is as well (see object-storage-f52/immutable-backup-on- ... 60-30.html).

[Alvaro]

So to clarify and even if it is not the best ...

The contract is several years ... so maybe using a workaround we can wait while incorporating the immutability feature for azure.

I do my forever forward incremental backups to a blob repository normally. These backups have no immutability. okay

But I can periodically do a full backup to another blob repository, and once the backup is stored in this repository I make it immutable through azure applying immutability at the container level.
If I want to restore this full one day, I can copy it to my normal veeam blob repository and restore from there.

I say this to propose something provisional while you implement this feature.

Is my approach correct?

Thank you

[Vitaliy S.]

Hi Alan,

As Niels has stated this can work from the technical point of view, so you need to test the recoverability and copy actions before proceeding with this strategy.

Thanks!

[nielsengelen]

As a final step, u would need to import the backup/container.