StoreOnce CloudBank Support

[jyan]

It is great to see that Catalyst copy mode is now available in V10, but when will we get full support for CloudBank copy mode? This is a great option for us as we are looking to utilise long term cloud storage, and would provide a seamless method for us to tier the data out to Azure or S3 object storage in a Veeam readable format in a fully deduped form.
Thanks
Josh

[HannesK]

Hello,
and welcome to the forums.

Currently we cannot share any future information about Cloud Bank support.

My personal opinion on any 3rd party (no matter which vendor) cloud offload: as a customer I would not do it, because now I have two vendors that I would be "locked in". And there is no good reason for it.

Veeam stores the data in capacity tier in an incremental forever way. So the main point why dedupe appliance vendors have their high deduplication factors is gone: the GFS fulls backups. The second thing is, that Veeam decompresses everything before landing on dedupe devices. When Veeam offloads data to capacity tier, then it compresses the data again.

For me, the cons are bigger than a few bucks saved money on cloud disk space.

Best regards,
Hannes