Version 10 of Veeam Backup & Replication isn’t too far away and we are currently in the middle of a second private BETA for our customers and partners. There has been a fair bit of content released around v10 functionality and features from our Veeam Vanguard’s over the past couple of weeks and as we move closer to GA, as par of the lead up, I am doing a series on some of the cool new enhancements that are coming as part of the release. These will be quick short takes that give a glimpse into what’s coming as part of the v10 release.
Downloading Tenant Data from SOBR Capacity Tier
Cloud Tier was by far the most significant feature of Update 4 for Backup & Replication 9.5 and we have seen the consumption of Object Storage in AWS, Azure and other platforms grow almost exponentially since its release. Our VCSPs have been looking to take advantage of the MOVE functionality that came in Update 4, but have also requested a way to pull back offloaded data from the Capacity Tier back to the Performance Tier on a per tenant basis.
The use case for this might be for tenant off-boarding, or migration of backup data back onsite. In any case our VCSPs needed a way to get the data back and rehydrate the VBK files and remove the data from Object Storage. In this quick post I’ll show how this is achieved through the UI.
First, looking at the image below you can see that there are a couple of dehydrated VBK files that belong to a specific tenant Cloud Connect Backup job are no bigger than 17MB as they site next to ones that are about 1GB.
To start a Download job, we have the option to click on the Download icon in the Tenant ribbon, or right right clicking on the tenant account and select Download
There will be an information box appear letting you know that there is a backup chain on the performance extent and the disk space required to download the other backup data back to the performance tier from the capacity tier
The SOBR Download job progress can be tracked
When completed we can see details of the download from Object Storage to the Performance Tier. In the example below a lot of the blocks that where present in the Performance Tier where used to rehydrate the previously offloaded VBKs. This new feature is leveraging the Intelligent Block Recovery to save on egress and also reduce download time. 
Going back to the file view, the previously smaller 17MB VBKs have been rehydrated to their previous size and we have all the tenant’s data back on the Performance Tier ready to be accessed.
Wrap Up:
That was a quick look at one of the cool smaller enhancements coming in v10. The ability to download data on a per tenant based from the Capacity Tier back to the Performance Tier is one that I know our VCSPs will be happy with.
Stay tuned over the next few weeks as I go through some more hidden gems.
Disclaimer: The information and screen shots in this post is based on BETA code and may be subject to change come final GA.
