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VEEAM BACKUP TO AZURE UPDATE
VEEAM BACKUP TO AZURE ARCHIVE
VEEAM BACKUP TO AZURE FULL

Cost Effective – If you host your own offsite storage or use a service provider, Azure Blob storage costs will be more cost effective than both of these.For me this latest feature has the following positives: Pros and Cons: Like everything in this world there are two sides to it, and really its about what suits you as the individual company.

VEEAM BACKUP TO AZURE ARCHIVE

Other initial setup tasks include creating a storage account in Azure, provisioning the Blob container you will archive the backups in, add a scale-out repository pointing at the Azure blob and finally re-configuring your existing Veeam backup jobs to archive your backups to the blob storage.

VEEAM BACKUP TO AZURE UPDATE

Setup Tasks: You should be at the point where you have now successfully upgraded your on premises Veeam Backup & Replication management software to 9.5 update 4 and provisioned an Azure subscription. If you are able to get your subscription via a CSP partner I would recommend doing this as it works out cheaper than using the standard pay as you go subscription. You will need to have an existing Azure subscription where you can create the storage required for this feature to work.

A pay as you go or CSP Azure Subscription.

Ensure Veeam Backup & Replication is updated to 9.5 update 4Īs mentioned this is a new feature which is only currently available in update 4 of version 9.5 so this should really be your first step on this journey.

Requirements: Before you can go ahead and utilize this feature you need to meet certain prerequisite requirements: In the second instance, Service Providers do take the headache of day to day management away, however I believe would struggle to match the cost efficiency of public cloud object storage. This type of setup can be very costly from a financial and time perspective, however Cloud object storage takes a lot of this away. In the first instance it requires you to have a building in a geographically separated location with some sort of Infrastructure in place. Most companies will already be backing up there data offsite in some shape or form (if you are not you should be!!), either in a secondary site owned by them or to a Service provider.

The new feature allows backup admins to archive older backups into Azure blob storage by adding it into Veeam as a ‘Scale-out Repository’ rather than a standard backup repository. Overview: Earlier this year Veeam released version 9.5 Update 4 of their Backup & Replication product, and with this new release they have introduced the capability to scale out your on premises repository to cloud object storage including Azure Blob.

VEEAM BACKUP TO AZURE FULL

In part one of this series I will go through an overview of the title topic, what requirements you need to meet for this feature, a brief description of the setup tasks you need to complete (I will go into full detail in part two of this series) and the benefits this feature can offer you as a business.