Direct to cloud
You can now enable cloud storage as the primary destination when you define backups and during restore.
You are not required to maintain large amounts of data on-premise. Cloud storage gives you the flexibility of maintaining large amounts of data. You can access data from anywhere, at any time.
If a disaster occurs, as all your data is maintained in the cloud, there is no data loss and you can recover your data at any time.
For backups you can specify the OpenStorage destination when you define or edit a backup policy, create an independent backup task, and dedicated offsite copy task.
For restores, you can specify the OpenStorage destination when you recover drives, remote computers, when you perform an express recovery, and use the Veritas System Recovery Disk or LightsOut Restore option for recovery.
Note: Although cloud storage is a part of OpenStorage, Veritas System Recovery Management Solution refers to cloud storage as OpenStorage.
You can provide OpenStorage as a primary destination. The path for OpenStorage logical storage unit must be:
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Microsoft Azure storage path: Azure:azure:azure.com/container name
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Amazon S3 Storage path: S3:amazon:amazon.com/bucket nameNote: In Veritas System Recovery, a bucket and container are referred to as a logical storage unit.
The Direct to cloud feature is supported only on a 64-bit operating system.
You cannot directly create a .vhd or .vhdx file to cloud and cannot use a .v2i file as a source for physical to virtual conversions.
See Recovering a drive.