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I am genuinely interested in the economics behind this, because I have been trying to decipher Amazon's pricing models for a while now.

Let me try to explain my calculation, and maybe you can clarify if I am totally wrong? The prices below are calculated based on using the Frankfurt datacenter in Europe.

A weekly full backup in my calculation is 6 TB. The first full backup is stored in S3, and the tape job automatically exports the tapes upon successful completion. This migrates them to Glacier. That equals to ~6,000 GB x 0.0245 = $147 in the S3 tier.

The exported copies must reside in Glacier for at least three months, because otherwise you will be charged with an early deletion fee which costs more than just leaving it there. That means I have to store at least 12x 6 TB. That equals to ~72,000 x 0.005 = $360 in the Glacier tier.

On top of this price, you add $125 for the Storage Gateway itself, and the potential "excess fees" for actually restoring data back on-prem.

That is the absolute lowest price, if I want to store just 1 month worth of backups offsite for DR purposes. I really don't feel it makes any sense. Most local service providers can easily beat these $/GB prices, and won't charge you for restoring your data.

May I ask how you use it? We have a "cloud first" approach to everything, so if the business case justfies using public cloud, we will certainly do it.

Check out the free version of Veeam itself: https://www.veeam.com/virtual-machine-backup-solution-free.html

It's still not a good example of the real Veeam product, but it can backup at the VM level, so worth looking at. You can use powershell to automate things. Could be a good combination of endpoint and VeeamZip could work for you.

It depends on the hashing method you are able to use. https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt

You will only benefit if you are able to set it to "layer3+4" as only this also uses the port for the distribution of the flows across the bonded links.

For Linux this is not a problem, but since each side can only affect the transmitted traffic, your real problem is setting this inside your switch.

Many switches are only able to look at the src and dst MAC (which are always the same for you here) and maybe the src and dst IP (which is also always the same in your case).

So the answer to your question is: It depends on the features of your switch model.

And then there is the caveat of only copying one job at a time. I am quite sure, this is only one flow, but verify yourself with ss -t | grep veeam to see how many connections are open.

If it is indeed only one flow, then LACP does nothing for you, other than provide resiliency for the connection of your server.

I don't think veeam natively supports sftp backup of a remote site.

You can automate the backup to a local folder with winscp, then veeam can back that folder up

https://winscp.net/eng/docs/guide_schedule

Actually starting with version 10 they removed that limitation with the free version. Now they just limit you to 10 workloads so 10 VMs. I use it for my home lab. https://www.veeam.com/virtual-machine-backup-solution-free.html

Edit: Here’s the blog post. I guess it was back in v9.5 https://www.veeam.com/blog/backup-replication-community-edition-features-description.html

Hi, You have a few options here. as mentioned already you have the Cloud Connect Service Provider option they will charge you an OPEX model for storage consumption, this will allow you to seed and also understand where your data is physically residing, Like tape I guess but sat on disk in someone else's data centre.

another option is a storage gateway, Amazon have the their storage gateway and is fully supported by Veeam. here you can find more information on that - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/08/backup-and-archive-to-aws-storage-gateway-vtl-with-veeam-backup-and-replication-v9/

Microsoft also have their StorSimple - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/services/storsimple/ This is a physical appliance or a virtual array that could be considered.

If you have a google search though for cloud integrated storage or cloud storage gateways you will find many other vendors.

The other thing to add that in an upcoming release of Veeam there will be the native ability to send your archival and compliant files to any S3 compatible storage, AWS S3 & Glacier as well as Microsoft Azure Blob Storage. This would remove the requirement of a storage gateway.

Hope that helps.

To my knowledge this is the best way to use Veeam with S3/Glacier, the storage gateway appliance is configured as a VTL and Veeam treats it as one. Amazon added this to their supported configuration back for Veeam B&R v9.0

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/08/backup-and-archive-to-aws-storage-gateway-vtl-with-veeam-backup-and-replication-v9/

Hi there and welcome the world of BCDR and more specifically Veeam! If you are just getting started a good starting place is “Mastering Veeam Backup & Replication v10” by Chris Childerhouse. https://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Veeam-Backup-Replication-environment-ebook-dp-B08QZRXMSC/dp/B08QZRXMSC/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=. Once you get past that grab yourself a free community license from Veeam (just google it) and build your self a play VM so you can get more familiar as you are learning.

For further information there are a bunch of us in the Vanguard community with blogs or YouTube channels, lots of content there to dive deeper into subjects. https://www.veeam.com/vanguard.html. Finally for specific questions or conversations setup an account on community.veeam.com and join the conversation.

Backup speed becomes a serious issue when your business operates 24/7 with hundreds of virtual machines up and running. The problem becomes all the more serious when your infrastructure comprises upwards of a thousand VMs.

There are many <strong>potential factors</strong> that could be slowing down your backup processes.

There is one major factor that affects backup speed, however: the agility of your backup software.

On the community edition page it says you can use it for a production environment-

" You can protect your production environment, use it in your home lab or use it for migrations at no cost.  "

https://www.veeam.com/virtual-machine-backup-solution-free.html

Is it stated somewhere else that you cannot use it in production?

I am from Veeam.

Yes, legally speaking, NFR is designed strictly for certified professionals, even if we don't validate your claim of having the specified certification. It is up to you if you want to thank us for our great software by providing false information and violating EULA terms :) many people choose to do that regardless, because they don't know that every time they do this, a kitten dies.

For homelabs, we do provide the Community Edition, however I understand you have more VMs than it is allowed to protect.