This and a lot more is exactly what the Veeam Tape backup job configuration is bringing: the ability to send / copy data to the Cloud taking advantage of the virtual tape infrastructures. Last but not least the air-gap approach from tapes which provide that offsite and offline requirements for these type of media. Everything happens seamlessly in the Cloud. VTL Tapes still provide the flexibility of the physical ones without the “physical” approach of moving them to a tape center when these should be archived. With so much data sprawling everywhere and on every platform, ensuring data availability across different environments is key. Especially when comparing the cost with a de-dupe appliance.
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Surely, each Company has it’s own preference on how to best operate based on CAPEX and OPEX filtered by SLAs in place. In general the idea would be to structure a Backup strategy which allows for the maximum amount of Data to be kept On-Premises for reduced RTO times and automatically send weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly Fulls to the Cloud for a much lower cost per gigabyte. The case for using Veeam Tape backup jobs to AWS VTL is an interesting one especially when paired with advanced retention scenarios like GrandFather-Father-Son (GFS) use cases. This applies not just to backups but also to standard files, for example from NAS shares and similar. In addition, the option to lower cost over the longer periods when storing data to “colder” tiers like the Amazon Glacier and similar. This configuration provides the option to send data directly to the Amazon Cloud taking advantage of the durability and availability option of the Cloud Provider. As a final part of this series the last step is to configure a Veeam Tape Backup job to AWS VTL tapes. In a previous article we have explored the options and the steps on how to integrate Veeam Backup with AWS VTL tapes.