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Hi everyone, i have a question but let me explain the situation first:

We have some tens of hetzner cloud servers for our customers for which we provide a secondary backup with Veeam agent on a s3 share that you can reach via SMB, apart from the one that comes integrated with hetzner.

Each server has its own public IP and his own local subnet.

We would like so know if there is a way to manange all these backups in a centralized way.

We also have our own Veeam B&R server we use to manage our own on premises vmware infrastructure, (4 sites, one of which is a cloud esxi all with their own local nas and veeam proxy servers).

I saw you can creare an s3 repository on veeam B&R but i don't know if there is a way to manage all the veeam agents via protection group over the internet, ergo over public ip? Is it possible? We have firewalls so we could limit the connection to a specific public IP if we wanted to. Do we just have to open some ports and that's it?

Another question: can we create our own Veeam Cloud Backup repository or is it a Veeam 1st party only service?

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/backup_repository.html?ver=120

Here i can see you can also configure some hardware deduplicating storage appliances like Dell Data Domain and others. Can we use some other generic storage as a cloud repository?

Any other ideas?

Hi @Daniel Pacuci and welcome to the community.
It sounds like you are looking for a service provider solution. Have a look at: 

Veeam Cloud Connect for Service Providers and Join Veeam's VCSP Program: BaaS and DRaaS Solutions

Here you have seperate options to provide a Cloud Connect Repository for your different customers, have billing options, and so on.

A nice feature when using a Cloud Connect Repository, your customer only needs your provided credentials and only one port (6180) to this location.

Best, Markus

 

Hi @Daniel Pacuci -

Yes, you can send Agent backups to Cloud Repositories, whether you use them on-prem or externally. As long as the Cloud Repo is added to Veeam.

There are quite a few choices when deciding to add Object Storage. See link below on supported solutions:
https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/object_storage_repository.html?ver=120

Here is the Agent Mgmt Guide and supported solutions:
https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/agents/object_storage.html?ver=120

I’d just scan through both those resources to verify Veeam has what you’re looking for...and it really sounds like they do.

Hi @coolsport00 

This is the solution we are currently applying, what I’d like to do is to manage all these separate servers with one VBR console via internet, not local LAN. 

So I can load the S3 share in VBR and create a protection group for the individual servers. 

Hi @Dynamic 

I contacted Veeam for some information regarding Cloud Connect, I am waiting to hear from them. 

Thank you. 

Hi @coolsport00 

This is the solution we are currently applying, what I’d like to do is to manage all these separate servers with one VBR console via internet, not local LAN. 

So I can load the S3 share in VBR and create a protection group for the individual servers. 

Ah, ok. Understand now. I’m thinking there is a way to do this, but not entirely sure how, other than a SP solution as Markus discussed. Curious to hear what you come up with in the end.

Hi @coolsport00 

This is the solution we are currently applying, what I’d like to do is to manage all these separate servers with one VBR console via internet, not local LAN. 

So I can load the S3 share in VBR and create a protection group for the individual servers. 

Management of Agents is typically local on your LAN not via the Internet.  When you want to manage those via internet then you are getting in to the Service Provider realm and looking at something like VSPC (Veeam Service Provider Console) for this type of management.  See what Veeam says as they will point you in the right direction.

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