From-scratch recovery test of Vault backups

[rschols]

I’m looking for the officially supported or recommended way to perform a clean-room recovery test of backups stored in Veeam Data Cloud Vault.

The goal is to restore on a completely separate VBR server (fresh installation) so we can verify Vault access and the encryption keys, without relying on the production backup server’s configuration database.

A Vault is assigned to a specific VBR server. Can I add a second VBR server there? Or will backup chains survive a temporary re-assignment of the Vault back and forth between VBR servers?

[Mildur]

Hi rschols,

V13.1 supports adding immutable object storage as “read-only” to a second backup server for DR testing.

VDC Vault is also supported (except VDC Vault Archive).

Best,
Fabian

[JoseM.Quesada]

Hi Fabian, thanks for the reply.

Before this gets closed out as settled, I wanted to ask for confirmation, because I'm seeing a contradiction between your answer and the Help Center.

The General Considerations and Limitations page for v13 (section "Read-Only Mode for Object Storage Repositories Limitations") explicitly states that read-only mode is not available for VDC Vault:

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/vbr/u ... imitations

This directly conflicts with your statement that VDC Vault is supported for read-only access (with only VDC Vault Archive excluded).

Could you confirm which of the two is correct?

If the Help Center is outdated and VDC Vault does support read-only access in v13.1, could that limitations page be updated to avoid confusion?
If the documented limitation is the current/accurate one and VDC Vault (not just the Archive variant) is excluded from read-only mode, could you suggest an alternative supported approach for the clean-room recovery test rschols described above?

Thanks in advance for the clarification.