Object Storage as Backup Target • Re: Weekly backup to object storage

Hello,
we are in a similar situation. Simple question: We want to have an offsite backup cloud. Which is the better approach ? Use the object storage repository cloud (offsite) as target for a Backup Job or a Backup Copy Job ?
The doubts comes from two different statement by Veeam experts. In Veeam R&D forum FAQ Object Storage by HannesK there is:

Q: Are regular full backups required with object storage?
A: Default setting for backup and backup copy Jobs to object storage based repositories is forever incremental.

Q: How does GFS work if there is no regular full?
A: Restore Points will be marked as GFS (weekly, monthly, yearly). A regular full backup is not needed.

Gostev in a few year ago comment (I don't have original link but I copied and saved the entire statement) wrote:
Typically, Veeam users who implement our reference architecture with primary and secondary repositories only offload GFS full backups which are created by Backup Copy jobs in the secondary repository. While those regular incremental chains are typically within operational restore windows, so they should not be offloaded to start with. And beyond operation restore windows, it usually makes no sense to keep daily incrementals - either locally, or offloaded.

Seems to me these are opposite sentence. HannesK suggest to NOT use full backup instead Gostev suggest to use full backup.
My question is: Off-site backup on object storage service (S3 or not, object lock immutability or not, in my case is Wasabi no object lock) should be setup in which mode ?
A) Forever incremental (beside first execution run active full) of either one between a backup job or a backup copy job like HannesK suggest
B) "Forever" copy the latest existing GFS Full backup available created by Backup Copy job like Gostev suggest

Thanks for suggestions.
Luca

Statistics: Posted by lucaliga — Dec 21, 2024 8:34 am

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