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Using Veeam Scale-Out Backup Repository (SOBR) with Wasabi can provide several benefits for organizations looking to optimize their backup and storage strategies. Here are some key reasons why this combination is advantageous:

1. Cost-Effective Cloud Storage

Wasabi’s Pricing Model: Wasabi offers low-cost cloud storage with no egress fees, making it an economical choice for storing large amounts of backup data. This can significantly reduce the overall cost of backup storage compared to traditional on-premises solutions or other cloud providers.

Pay-as-You-Go: With Wasabi, you only pay for the storage you use (minimum of 1Tb for Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage), which can be more cost-effective than maintaining and scaling on-premises storage infrastructure.

2. Scalability

Unlimited Scalability: Wasabi provides virtually unlimited storage capacity, allowing organizations to scale their backup storage as needed without worrying about running out of space.

Veeam’s SOBR Flexibility: Veeam’s Scale-Out Backup Repository allows you to easily add or remove storage capacity by integrating multiple backup repositories (including cloud storage like Wasabi) into a single logical pool. This simplifies management and scaling.

3. Performance and Reliability

High Performance: Wasabi offers high-speed data transfer rates, which can help reduce the time required for backup and restore operations.

Durability and Availability: Wasabi’s cloud storage is designed for high durability and availability, ensuring that your backup data is safe and accessible when needed.

4. Simplified Management

Unified Management: Veeam SOBR allows you to manage multiple storage repositories (including on-premises and cloud) as a single entity. This simplifies backup management and reduces administrative overhead.

Automated Tiering: With SOBR, you can set up policies to automatically move older backup data to Wasabi’s cost-effective cloud storage, while keeping recent backups on faster, local storage. This optimizes both performance and cost.

5. Disaster Recovery and Compliance

Offsite Backup: Storing backups in Wasabi’s cloud provides an offsite copy of your data, which is crucial for disaster recovery. In the event of a local failure or disaster, you can quickly restore data from the cloud.

Compliance and Security: Wasabi complies with various industry standards and regulations (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA), and offers robust security features like encryption and immutability, ensuring that your backup data is secure and compliant.

6. Integration with Veeam

Seamless Integration: Veeam has native integration with Wasabi, making it easy to configure and manage backups to Wasabi’s cloud storage. This reduces complexity and ensures compatibility.

Backup Copy Jobs: Veeam allows you to create backup copy jobs that can send data directly to Wasabi, providing an additional layer of data protection.

Backup Direct to Object Storage: Veeam allows you to create backup jobs that can send data directly to Wasabi without the need to have a local copy.

7. Reduced On-Premises Infrastructure

Lower Capital Expenditure: By leveraging Wasabi’s cloud storage, organizations can reduce their reliance on expensive on-premises storage hardware, lowering capital expenditure (CapEx).

Operational Efficiency: With less on-premises infrastructure to manage, IT teams can focus on more strategic initiatives rather than routine maintenance and capacity planning.

8. Long-Term Retention

Cost-Effective Long-Term Storage: Wasabi’s low-cost storage is ideal for long-term retention of backup data, which is often required for regulatory or compliance purposes. Veeam SOBR can automatically tier older backups to Wasabi, ensuring that long-term retention is both cost-effective and manageable.

Combining Veeam’s Scale-Out Backup Repository with Wasabi offers a powerful, scalable, and cost-effective solution for modern backup and storage needs. It provides the flexibility to scale storage as needed, simplifies management, enhances disaster recovery capabilities, and reduces overall costs, making it an attractive option for organizations of all sizes.

Learn how to create a Backup Job in Veeam v12 to Backup to Wasabi Using a Scale-Out Repository by clicking here.

Published: April 30, 2025 8:53am