Object Storage as a Backup Target • Re: Storage Usage for Immutable Backups

Capacity tier is forward incremental, with active fulls in performance tier make it to capacity tier as synthetic full.

Just remember there are no backup files when using object storage. If you have a non-object storage Performance Tier, it will have .vib and .vbk files. When those restore points are offloaded to the capacity tier, Veeam converts the chunks in those backup files into objects that are then offloaded to the object storage based Capacity Tier.

Also note, whenever Veeam backups directly to object storage or offload backups to the Capacity Tier, we use a Forever Forward Incremental methodology. For direct to object storage backups, there is no option to create a synthentic full. You can however create an active full backup. In the event of an active full backup directly to object storage, Veeam will write the entire full backup to the object storage. The behavior is different for a capacity tier. The backup server will offload only new and changed objects to the capacity tier.

Statistics: Posted by sfirmes — Feb 07, 2024 3:37 pm

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