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Veeam Backups Migration from AWS S3 to Backblaze B2
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The Backblaze integration with Veeam lets you migrate your existing backup repositories that are in Amazon S3 storage to Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage.
The Backblaze B2 S3-Compatible API allows thousands of integrations to natively work with Backblaze B2. If you are new to the S3-compatible API, click here. If you have issues using Veeam Backup & Replication with Backblaze B2, send an email to [email protected].
Enable Backblaze B2
Before you begin: You must have a Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage account. If you already have a Backblaze account and the left navigation menu contains a B2 Cloud Storage section, your account is already enabled for Backblaze B2.
- Sign in to the Backblaze web console.
- In the user menu in the upper-right corner of the page, select My Settings.
- Under Enabled Products, select the checkbox to enable B2 Cloud Storage.
- Review the Terms and Conditions, and click OK to accept them.
Create a Bucket
- Sign in to the Backblaze web console.
- In the left navigation menu under B2 Cloud Storage, click Buckets.
- Click Create a Bucket.
- Enter a name for your bucket. Bucket names must be at least six characters and globally unique.
A message is displayed if your bucket name is already in use. - Select a privacy setting: Private or Public.NoteYou can change a bucket's privacy settings at any time.
Files that are in a private bucket require authentication to perform an action, for example, downloading.
Public buckets do not require authentication so you can easily share files. If this is your first time creating a public bucket, complete the following tasks to ensure that you have the correct permissions to create a public bucket:
1. Verify your email address.
2. Have a payment history on file, or use the credit card form to pay a small fee that is credited to your account balance. - If applicable, enable a Backblaze B2 server-side encryption key.
- Enable Object Lock to restrict a file from being modified or deleted for a specified period of time.
- Click Create a Bucket, and copy the value that is in the Endpoint field; you may need this value later.
- Click Lifecycle Settings to control how long to keep the files in your new bucket.
Create an Application Key
- Sign in to the Backblaze web console.
- In the left navigation menu under B2 Cloud Storage, click Application Keys.
- Click Add a New Application Key, and enter an app key name.
You cannot search an app key by this name; therefore, app key names are not required to be globally unique. Key names are limited to 100 characters and can contain letters, numbers, and "-", but not I18N characters, such as é, à, and ü. - Select All or select a specific bucket in the Allow Access to Bucket(s) menu.
- Optionally, select your access type (Read and Write, Read Only, or Write Only).
- Optionally, select Allow List All Bucket Names.
This option is required for the B2 Native API b2_list_buckets and the S3-Compatible API S3 List Buckets operations. - Optionally, enter a file name prefix to restrict application key access only to files with that prefix.
Depending on what you selected in step #4, this limits application key access to files with the specified prefix for all buckets or just the selected bucket. - Optionally, enter a positive integer to limit the time, in seconds, before the application key expires.
The value must be less than 1000 days (in seconds). - Click Create New Key, and note the resulting keyID and applicationKey values.
Restricted Keys and Object Lock
Add Object Lock to a New Bucket
- Enable Object Lock on the bucket that you want to use.
- Create a new bucket-restricted application key.
- Configure Veeam to use the application key.
- Set the bucket as a destination.
Add Object Lock to a Bucket Already Used by Veeam
- Enable Object Lock on the bucket that is already used by Veeam.
- Create a new bucket-restricted application key.
- Configure Veeam to use the new application key on the bucket.
Migrate Data from Veeam AWS to Backblaze B2
Before you begin: You must have a scale-out repository that is configured to use Backblaze B2. For more information about setting up scale-out backup repositories, click here.
- Open your Veeam console.
- Select the Home tab, select Backup Copy, and select Virtual Machine.
- Enter a name for your backup job, and click Next.
- Click Add, and select the backup job that currently copies to AWS.
- Click OK, and click Next.
- Select the scale-out backup repository that you configured to use Backblaze B2, and click Next.
- Click Finish.
Your backup job begins migrating your completed backups from AWS to Backblaze B2.