Understanding Veeam offsite to AWS S3
Can S3 be used for offsite storage or only archival purposes? I cannot find anything on how to do a file level restore from the Veeam console via external backup repository (S3). Is this even possible? If not how would someone even recover their VM from S3 to bring back to a VMware host on-prem?
I have seen/heard people having en EC2 instance with multiple 16TB EBS attached and using that as the backup repository. I believe the cost would only be the EC2 instance and the EBS volumes and any files pulled back down since uploading is free.
I do have a call with iland for cloud connect but would like to limit the cost as much as possible especially with COVID-19 and the firm trying to cut costs as much as possible.
I have seen/heard people having en EC2 instance with multiple 16TB EBS attached and using that as the backup repository. I believe the cost would only be the EC2 instance and the EBS volumes and any files pulled back down since uploading is free.
I do have a call with iland for cloud connect but would like to limit the cost as much as possible especially with COVID-19 and the firm trying to cut costs as much as possible.
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Yes S3 can be used for this.
Using S3 will be one of the most expensive, slowest ways to accomplish this.
For example, 16TB arranged in a RAID1 configuration (8TB useable) for $90/month USD or 48TB RAID1 (24TB usable) for $400/moth USD.
Compare pricing of 16TB of S3 space. Be sure to include all your upload/download costs + per object lookup costs.
With real disk space (real meaning no bandwidth or per object access costs), you'll find the pricing difference staggering.
Using the simple S3 calculator 16TB is $377/month USD (just for space, no bandwidth or per object access numbers checked).
Using S3 will be one of the most expensive, slowest ways to accomplish this.
https://www.ovh.com/world/dedicated-servers/storage/prices/For example, 16TB arranged in a RAID1 configuration (8TB useable) for $90/month USD or 48TB RAID1 (24TB usable) for $400/moth USD.
Compare pricing of 16TB of S3 space. Be sure to include all your upload/download costs + per object lookup costs.
With real disk space (real meaning no bandwidth or per object access costs), you'll find the pricing difference staggering.
Using the simple S3 calculator 16TB is $377/month USD (just for space, no bandwidth or per object access numbers checked).
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Ramasamy,
Are you able to natively navigate file level restores from the S3 repository directly from the Veeam B&R console? For example: Mount VM1 -> E partition -> folder A -> Folder B -> file 1 and then restore it where needed?
Are you able to natively navigate file level restores from the S3 repository directly from the Veeam B&R console? For example: Mount VM1 -> E partition -> folder A -> Folder B -> file 1 and then restore it where needed?
Using Starwind Virtual Tape Library which is Replicated/Synced to the Cloud
https://www.veeam.com/blog/archiving-to-azure-blob-with-starwind-vtl.html
https://www.driftar.ch/index.php/2017/06/13/veeam-using-starwind-vtl-with-aws-s3-in-veeam/
You can use Starwind VTL with either AWS, Backblaze or Azure.