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The comprehensive backup solution shares many commonalities as well as some important differences with Veeam Backup & Replication and how Object Storage Repositories are configured:
Object locking is not currently supported for supports S3-compatible object storage.
Data can be backed up directly into object storage without an intermediate stage. There is no notion of a Scale-out Backup Repository (SOBR). No special distinction is made between performance tiers (local/ DAS/ SAN/ NAS) and lower-cost capacity tiers (object storage).
Local backup repositories are “extended” to include Object Storage Repositories. Only a small cache is kept on the local storage to minimize retrievals (egress costs) from Cloud Object Storage when locating files for restores using Veeam Explorers.
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