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Recipe: Adding Backup Repository using the Veeam Backup & Replication Console

Expected deliverables:

A backup repository to store VM instances and Cloud SQL instances backups using Veeam Backup for Google Cloud.

Time to complete: 5 minutes

Ingredients:

• A AWS S3 bucket created using S3 Standard, S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval or S3 Glacier Deep Archive storage classes.
• If you want to enable Immutability, then the Amazon S3 bucket must be created with S3 Object Lock and S3 Versioning enabled.
• An AWS Account already addedd to Veeam Backup & Replication instance.

Assumptions:

You have an existing Veeam Backup for AWS deployment.

Method:

1. In the Veeam Backup & Replication console, open the Backup Infrastructure view. Navigate to External Repositories and click Add Repository
2. In the Add External Repository window, Click in Veeam Backup for AWS and then choose whether you want to create a Amazon S3 or Amazon S3 Glacier repository.
3. At the Veeam Backup for AWS step
   • Select a Veeam Backup for AWS appliance from the list.
   • Specify a name for the new Repository.
4. At the Account step, from the AWS Account drop-down list, select an AWS Account where the new backup repository will belong.
   • If you have chosen to create a standard AWS S3 repository, then select a Gateway Server from the list. By default the Veeam Backup Server it selected as a Gateway Server
5. At the IAM Role step (only applicable if you have multiple IAM roles added to the VBAWS Appliance), select the IAM role whose permissions will be used to create the repository and to access the AWS S3 Bucket.
6. At the Bucket step specify the bucket that will be used as the target location for image-level backups of EC2 Instances, RDS resources and additional copies of Amazon VPC backups and indexes of EFS file systems.
   • From the Data center drop-down list, select an AWS Region where the repository will be located.
   • If you will use an existing bucket, click in Browse and select the necessary bucket in the Select Bucket window.
   • If you want to create a new bucket, click Browse. In the Select Bucket window, click New Bucket and enter a name for the bucket. If you want to enable immutability settings for the bucket, select the Enable immutability check box in the New Bucket window
   • OPTIONAL: If you want to enable immutability at the repository level, select the Make backups immutable for the entire duration of their retention policy check box
7. At the Encryption step, choose whether you want to encrypt backups in this storage bucket. If you enable encryption, specify a password that will be used to encrypt data or choose a KMS Encryption Key from the dropdown list. Click Next.
8. Click in Apply and track the progress. Once the process is complete, click in Next
9. At the Summary step, review summary information and click Finish.

Links to Resources:

• Veeam Guides and Helpcenter
• Veeam Community Forums