How to use Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 V4 offload Backup to Azure Blob Object storage #Veeam #Office 365 #Azure Blob #Mvphour

Staring from Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 V4, you will be able to leverage Object Storage to offload your Office 365 data. You can choose from different providers such as Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure Blob, IBM Cloud or S3 compatible object storage providers or even on-premises object storage.

Today, I am going to show you how to use Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 V4 backup to Azure Blob. If you still don’t know how to create Azure Blob, you can reference my previously post as follow link to created it.

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Login to Veeam server.
Open Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 connect to…. Console.
On the User Account Control page, click Yes.
Click Connect on the Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 console connect page.
On the Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 home page, select BACKUP INFRASTRUCTURE.
On the BACKUP INFRASTRUCTURE page, select Object Storage Repositories.
Right-click Object Storage Repositories, select Add object storage…
On the New Object storage repository page, type Azure Blob as Object storage repository name, click Next.
On the new Object storage type page, select Microsoft Azure Blob Storage, click Next.
On the Microsoft Azure storage Account page, click Add on Specify account credentials to connect to Microsoft blob storage item.
Paste Azure storage account name as Account and paste key1 as Shared key (you created copied them from Azure storage account Access key), click OK.
On the Microsoft Azure storage Account page, select Azure Global (Standard) as Region, click Next.
On the Microsoft Azure Blob container page, select an Azure Blob container (you created it previously when you create Azure Storage Account and settings), click Browse on Folder.
On the Select the folder page, click New Folder.
Type Office365Backup as the new folder name, click OK.
On the Microsoft Azure Blob container page, click Advanced.
On the ADVANCED SETTINGS page, if you would like to control the storage spend, select Limit object storage consumption and put the storage size for it, click OK.
On the Microsoft Azure Blob container page, click Finish.
Now, you will see the new Repository on the Object Storage Repositories page.
Select Backup Repositories, right-click Backup Repositories and select Add backup repository…
On the Specify details for backup repository page, type Azure Blob-Office365 as repository Name, click Next.
On the Specify location for backup repository page, select your Backup proxy server and click Browse for Path.
Select the folder as path and then click OK.
On the Specify location for backup repository page, click Next.
On the Specify if you want to extend your backup repository to object storage page, select offload backup data to object storage and select AZURE BLOB (you just created it).
Select Encrypt data uploaded to object storage, click Add for Password.
Enter Password and click OK.
Click Next on the Object storage backup repository page.
On the Specify retention policy settings page, I am going to keep the default settings and then click Finish.
Make sure you successful create the new repository.
It’s time to create a new backup job for offload to Azure Blob, select ORGANIZATIONS, right-click your organization and select Add to backup job…
On the Specify job name and description page, enter name for your backup job. Click Next.
On the Select objects to back up page, select Back up entire organization if you have enough users license for entire organization, if not, you need to select Back up the following objects. You can add by users, groups, sites and Organization. Click Next after you add them.
On the select objects to exclude page, you can add by users, groups, sites and Organization. Click Next after you add them.
On the Specify backup proxy and repository page, select backup proxy and Azure Blob repository and then click Next.
On the Select scheduling options page, enter your schedule information and click Create.