At VeeamON 2019, I joined members of the Product Strategy Team to do a number of live demos showing current and future products and features. While the first half focused on what had been released in 2019 so far, the second half focused on what is coming. One of those was the highly anticipated Copy Mode feature being added to the Cloud Tier in v10 of Veeam Backup & Replication.
As with the existing 9.5 Update 4 functionality, all restore operations are still possible for backup data that has been copied to the Capacity Tier. During the Technical Main Stage keynote, I demoed an Instant VM Recovery of a machine from a SOBR that we had simulated the loss of all Performance Tier extents due to a disaster. As you can see in the demo below, the recovery was streamed directly off the Capacity Tier, which in this case was backed by Amazon S3.
Copy Mode feature
Copy Mode is an additional policy you can set against the Capacity Tier extent of the Scale Out Backup Repository (SOBR), which is backed by an Object Storage repository. Once selected, any backup files that are created as part of any standard backup or backup copy job will be copied to the Capacity Tier. This fully satisfies the 3-2-1 rule of backup, which asks for one full copy of your data off site.
This feature adds to the existing move functionality released as part of Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 4 earlier this year and allows the almost immediate copy of backup data up to an Object Storage Repository. Here’s a deep dive into the technology (and best practices!) that we presented on the main stage:
And a full demo only session to show off some of the new Copy Mode functionality coming in v10:
NOTE: Demo and screenshots taken from Tech Preview Build and is subject to change.
For a recap of what is currently possible in Update 4, head to this link to check out all the Cloud Tier content I’ve created since launch.
Conclusion
Copy Mode is going to be a huge enhancement to the Cloud Tier in v10. I can see lots of great use cases for on-premises Veeam customers and for our Veeam Cloud & Service Provider partners who should be looking to leverage this feature to offer new service offerings for IaaS and Cloud Connect Backup data resiliency.
Stay tuned for more information around Cloud Tier Copy Mode as we get closer to the release of v10!
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