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Maintaining Recoverability in Veeam Capacity Tier Migrations

  • September 25, 2024
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k00laidIT
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I recently had to cover off a very unique use case, making capacity tier data available for restore after being disconnected. After doing I thought I’d share so here’s a little post I wrote:

https://www.koolaid.info/maintaining-recoverability-in-veeam-capacity-tier-migrations/

8 comments

Chris.Childerhose
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  • Veeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
  • September 25, 2024

This was definitely a very interesting use case you wrote about.  Great article Jim.


k00laidIT
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  • Veeam Vanguard
  • September 25, 2024

Glad you liked it @Chris.Childerhose, any part of that you’ve run into before?


Chris.Childerhose
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  • Veeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
  • September 25, 2024

Glad you liked it @Chris.Childerhose, any part of that you’ve run into before?

Not as yet but we are doing many migrations which this could potentially play a part in but we will see.


coolsport00
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  • Veeam Legend
  • September 25, 2024

Nice writeup Jim. Good to know there’s a way to get those Object Storage (Capacity) data into VBR. Will keep this handy if ever needed. 👍🏻


TylerJurgens
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  • Influencer
  • September 25, 2024

You primarily focused on Capacity tier - I am curious how this would all work if you have an Archive tier attached as well? Would anything change?


Scott
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  • Veeam Legend
  • October 2, 2024

That’s a very cool way to get your data off the storage after a migration if you need.  It’s similar to if you were to add a tape library and import/rescan all of the tapes to find the old backups.

 

Another reason encryption is so important too. 


k00laidIT
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  • Veeam Vanguard
  • October 2, 2024

You primarily focused on Capacity tier - I am curious how this would all work if you have an Archive tier attached as well? Would anything change?

Hey @TylerJurgens I would think that Archive tier would work the other way but I don’t think you’d ever want to use it in anger as it’d be excessively expensive and slow. Capacity tier though I think there will be a good deal of multi-cloud movement as Veeam Admins get more and more comfortable with object storage as a 1st class citizen.


TylerJurgens
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  • October 2, 2024

Appreciate your insights Jim!