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Recipe: Adding S3 Compatible Object Storage
Expected deliverables:
A new S3 Compatible Object Storage added to Veeam Inventory which can be used as source in an Unstructured Data Backup Jobs.
Time to complete: 5 minutes
Ingredients:
- A General-Purpose Proxy Server already available in Veeam Infrastructure
- A Windows Server or Linux Server to be used as a Cached Repository located as close to the NAS filer as possible.
- A S3 compatible storage provided either by a on-premises solution or a cloud solution.
- The S3-compatible object storage device must be fully compatible with the AWS S3 operations and AWS S3 Signature Version 4 standard.
Before you start:
Assumptions:
It’s assumed that you already have a Veeam Backup Server fully working in your environment.
Method:
- Open the Inventory view. In the inventory pane, right-click the Unstructured Data node and select Add unstructured data source.
- In the Add Unstructured Data Source window, click Object storage > S3 Compatible.
- At the Account step, specify:
- A Friendly name you want to assign to your object storage in Veeam console.
- The Service Point address of the object storage
- The Region for the object storage
- And then select Cloud Credentials from the Credentials drop-down list or click in Add to create new ones.
- At the Processing step:
- Click Choose next to the Backup proxy field to select a backup proxy (Default: All proxies)
- From the Cache repository drop-down list, select a cache repository where temporary cache files must be stored.
- Use the Backup I/O control slider to define how fast the backup proxy can read data from the source object storage or leave the default.
- At the Apply step, wait until Veeam installs and configures all required components. Click Next.
- At the Summary step, review details of the added Object Storage and click Finish to exit the wizard.
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