Skip to content
11:11 Systems
Rethink Connected
11:11 Systems11:11 Systems
  • Why 11:11
    • Submenu
      • Column 1
        • Cloud Console
          Cloud Console
          Compliance
          Compliance

      • Column 2
        • Global Regions
          Cloud Regions
          Catalyst
          Planning and Assessment

      • WHY CHOOSE 11:11
      • Overview
      • Leadership
      • News & Media
      •  
      • Careers
      • Technology Partners
      • Customer Stories
  • Products & Services
    • Products & Services
      • CLOUD
      • Cloud Overview
      • Public Cloud
      • Private Cloud
      • Object Storage
      • Cloud Labs
      • Colocation/Bare-Metal
      • BACKUP
      • Backup Overview
      • Veeam Backup
      • Microsoft 365 Backup
      • Managed Backup for Cohesity
      • DISASTER RECOVERY
      • DRaaS Overview
      • DRaaS for Veeam
      • DRaaS for Zerto
      • DRaaS for Azure
      • Autopilot
      • SECURITY
      • Security Overview
      • Continuous Risk Scanning
      • Managed SIEM
      • Managed EDR
      • Managed Firewall
      • CONNECTIVITY
      • Connectivity Overview
      • SD-WAN
      • Multi-Cloud Connect
      • Managed IP
  • Solutions
    • Solutions Submenu
      • INDUSTRY
      • Education
      • Financial
      • Government
      • Healthcare
  • Partners
    • Partners Submenu
      • Overview
      • Become a Partner
      • Partner Portals
  • Resources
    • Resources Submenu
      • Events
      • Webinars
      • News & Media
      • White Papers
      • Podcast
      • Data Sheets
      • Customer Stories
      • Innovation Blog
  • Support
    • Support Submenu
      • Contact Support
      • Product Documentation
      • API Documentation
Search:
  • Console Login
  • Contact
Header Right Menu
Free Trial
  • Why 11:11
    • Cloud Console
    • Compliance
    • Cloud Regions
    • Planning and Assessment
    • WHY CHOOSE 11:11
    • Overview
    • Leadership
    • News & Media
    • Careers
    • Technology Partners
    • Customer Stories
    • Blog
  • Products & Services
    • CLOUD
    • Cloud Overview
    • Public Cloud
    • Private Cloud
    • Object Storage
    • Cloud Labs
    • Colocation/Bare-Metal
    • BACKUP
    • Backup Overview
    • Veeam Backup
    • Microsoft 365 Backup
    • Managed Backup for Cohesity
    • DISASTER RECOVERY
    • DRaaS Overview
    • DRaaS for Veeam
    • DRaaS for Zerto
    • DRaaS for Azure
    • Autopilot
    • SECURITY
    • Security Overview
    • Continuous Risk Scanning
    • Managed SIEM
    • Managed EDR
    • Managed Firewall
    • CLOUD CONNECTIVITY
    • Connectivity Overview
    • SD-WAN
    • Multi Cloud Connect
    • Managed IP
  • Solutions
    • INDUSTRY
    • Education
    • Financial
    • Government
    • Healthcare
    • Column 2
  • Partners
    • Overview
    • Become a Partner
    • Partner Portals
  • Resources
    • Events
    • Webinars
    • News & Media
    • Whitepapers
    • Podcast
    • Datasheets
    • Customer Stories
    • Innovation Blog
  • Support
    • Contact Support
    • Success Center
    • API Documentation
  • Contact
  • Console Login
  • Free Trial
Author: Mike Mosley
Date: February 14, 2018

Veeam Cloud Connect Backup: Storage Optimization

Cloud Backup imageDate: February 14, 2018

Author: Mike Mosley

Editor’s Note: As of January 2022, iland is now 11:11 Systems, a managed infrastructure solutions provider at the forefront of cloud, connectivity, and security. As a legacy iland.com blog post, this article likely contains information that is no longer relevant. For the most up-to-date product information and resources, or if you have further questions, please refer to the 11:11 Systems Success Center or contact us directly.

In my previous blog, I reviewed how to get started with Veeam Cloud Connect Backup.

 

To get the most out of your Veeam backup solution, you want to make sure you fully understand and effectively manage your storage and consumption needs. It’s imperative that you have enough space available so you can fulfill your retention requirements. If you exceed your storage limit, you may begin to see failures that could affect your backup chain. If you overestimate your storage needs, you may be paying for space that is not being utilized.

 

In this blog, I’ll present methods that can help you effectively estimate the sizing requirements of your Veeam Cloud Connect Backup storage. My next blog will focus on managing your cloud storage repositories.

 

Initial Sizing of Cloud Storage

 

It can be difficult to determine the initial amount of storage you will need when connecting to a cloud provider, such as 11:11 Systems. One method you could use is to look at your local backup repository to get a benchmark of your backup sizes. If you plan to do a backup copy job of one of your local backups, you can find the path to your backup location and view the backup files. In Veeam, under the “Backup and Replication” tab, you can view your backups by clicking on the “Disk” icon. You can then right click on the backup file and click “Properties”. In the Backup Properties window, you can view the disk path to the local repository where your backup files are located.
In my example, my backup folder is located on my Veeam Server’s G drive at G:\Backups\Local Backup. When I browse in this folder on my Veeam server, I can see the actual backup chain for my job named Local Backup.
Mosley_VCCStorage_2
My local backup job just has two small servers. From this window, I can see that my total backup size is around 8.5GB. In your production environment, this folder may be significantly larger. When checking the files, I see that my initial full backup file is over 8GB. The incremental backup files that were made subsequently are much smaller. Notice how the incremental backups on February 2 and 3 are larger than the rest of the incremental backups. We will discuss that in more detail later. However, when configuring a backup copy job to your Veeam Cloud Connect service provider, you can expect to see similar data usage to what you see here. It won’t be an exact estimate, as running a backup copy job may add extra compression to your backup files.

 

To test this out, I set up a backup copy job of my local backup job to my cloud repository. One thing to note is that, when you run a backup copy job for the first time, the backup copy job creates a full backup file at the cloud repository. So, instead of copying everything in my local backup folder, Veeam compresses the backup data into one VBK file on the cloud repository.

Mosley_VCCStorage_3

Once my backup copy job finishes its initial run, I can view my cloud repository files in Veeam. As expected, I can see that my full backup file is around 8GB. As I continue to run my backup copy job, I should see the chain consume a similar amount of storage as the local backup.

 

My test jobs are keeping only seven days’ worth of retention – meaning I should always expect to see one full (.vbk) file trailed by six Incremental (.vib) files. One option you have with Veeam backup copy jobs is to save archival backups. This works outside of the typical backup chain. For my job, I configured to keep four archival backups that are generated each week. This means that on top of my seven daily backup copies, Veeam will generate another .vbk file once a week and keep four of those weekly backups in my repository. For my job, I chose to create my weekly backups on Wednesday. This is a helpful feature for fulfilling long-term retention requirements, but it does increase the space used on your repository. When I let my job run for a week, I can check my backup files again to see that a new .vbk file has been generated with a “_W” suffix. This is my first weekly backup.

 

Mosley_VCCStorage_4

As we can see, my new weekly backup is the same size as my first initial .vbk file. It’s important to keep this in mind when choosing to use archival backups. Since I chose to keep four weekly backups, I need to make sure I am able to handle an extra 32GBs on top of my normal backup chain. Let’s say you have a local backup job that has a 500GB .vbk file with six incremental files that are 10GB each for a backup total of 560GB. If you copy this to a cloud repository, you may choose to purchase 1000GB to handle your backup copy data. This should work fine and gives you plenty of room to expand. However, if you add to save four weekly backups in this solution, you will run out of space once the first weekly backup runs.

 

This is one method for trying to estimate the storage need for your cloud repository backups with Veeam Cloud Connect. We understand that each customer has different retention needs and concerns, and Veeam as a whole may be new to you. If you need any help judging the amount of backup space you may require, you can speak with an 11:11 Account Manager and Solutions Architect to determine the best path forward for you.
Categories: Cloud Backup, VeeamBy Mike MosleyFebruary 14, 2018

Author: Mike Mosley

Mike Mosely is a cloud engineer at 11:11 and has worked at the company for over 3 years. He holds a number of VMware certifications including VCP5 as well as the Veeam VMCE certification. Mike works closely with customers to build cloud solutions that fit their requirements.

Post navigation

PreviousPrevious post:Getting Started with Veeam Cloud Connect BackupNextNext post:Cloud Firewall Security – Going Beyond vCloud Director

Related Posts

Protecting Microsoft Teams Channel Chat Data: Are You Prepared?
March 15, 2023
Veeam 12
Veeam 12: Appropriate Direct to Object Storage Use Cases
February 15, 2023
Veeam 12
Veeam 12 Preview: Veeam Cloud Connect Backup vs. Object Storage
February 14, 2023
Veeam 12
Veeam 12 Preview: Multi-Factor Authentication
February 7, 2023
Veeam 365 Backup v7 BETA: SaaSy Immutability
February 2, 2023
Preparing for 2023 with 11:11 Systems: IT Trends in Security, Cloud, and More
February 1, 2023
PRODUCTS & SERVICES
  • Cloud
  • Backup
  • Disaster Recovery
  • Managed Security
  • Connectivity Solutions
  • Compliance
COMPANY
  • Why 11:11
  • Customer Stories
  • Careers
  • Leadership
  • Technology Partners
  • News & Media
  • Contact Support
CLOUD REGIONS
  • North America
  • EMEA
  • APAC
CONNECT
  • LinkedIn
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Youtube

© 2023 11:11 Systems Inc., All Rights Reserved | Privacy Notice

Go to Top
PRIVACY POLICY AND COOKIE CONSENT
To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Manage options Manage services Manage vendors Read more about these purposes
View preferences
{title} {title} {title}
PRIVACY POLICY AND COOKIE CONSENT
To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information that allows us to process data such as browsing behavior. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions. By clicking Accept, closing this message, or continuing to browse, you consent to these technologies and accept our Privacy Notice.
Functional Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Manage options Manage services Manage vendors Read more about these purposes
View preferences
{title} {title} {title}