If you already have one, you may notice that there is a blank entry next to “endpoint.” This is because buckets created before cannot be used with the Backblaze S3 Compatible APIs. In the Backblaze B2 console, you need to create a bucket. An organization connected to the Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 environment: View the options and how-to guide here.

A Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 environment setup: You can also get this for free (up to 10 users) with their Community Edition.

The first 10GB are complimentary so you can give this a go without even entering a credit card.

A Backblaze B2 account: You can create one here for free.

So naturally, with the recent announcement from Backblaze saying they now have S3 Compatible API support, I wanted to try it out with Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365. Did I mention you no longer need to juggle data moves between repositories?! These enhancements create a number of opportunities to simplify your workflows. With the data scalability sorted, you only need to worry about monitoring and scaling out the compute workload of the proxy servers (worker nodes). These platforms are designed to handle petabytes of data with very good durability, and object storage is better suited to that task. So, why object storage over block-based repositories? There are a number of reasons but scalability is, I believe, the biggest. The flagship Veeam Backup & Replication product now supports a growing number of object enabled capabilities.ĪWS Security Profile – Cryptography Edition: Panos Kampanakis, Principal Security Engineer This is a common trend for new Veeam product releases. Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 v4 included a number of enhancements, one of which was the support for object-based repositories. Natasha Rabinov, Backblaze Backing Up Microsoft Office 365 via Veeam in Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage If you’re working with Veeam and Microsoft 365, this post from Ben could help save you some time and headaches. Because Backblaze’s new S3 Compatible APIs enable Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage as an endpoint in the Veeam ecosystem, we reached out to Ben, in his role as a Veeam Vanguard, to break down some common use cases for us. Ben is also a member of the Veeam® Vanguard program, Veeam’s top-level influencer community.

He specializes in the automation and integration of a broad range of cloud & virtualization technologies. Ben Young works for vBridge, a cloud service provider in New Zealand.

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