Direct to cloud

Last published : Apr 02, 2026

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 a drive based backup, a one time backup, and also when you backup using Veritas System Recovery Disk.

For restores, you can specify the OpenStorage destination when you restore files and folders, drives, and use the Veritas System Recovery Disk for restore.

Note: Although cloud storage is a part of OpenStorage, Veritas System Recovery 18 refers to cloud storage as OpenStorage.

You can provide OpenStorage as a primary destination. The path for OpenStorage logical storage unit must be:

Microsoft Azure storage path: Azure:azure:azure.com/container name- Amazon S3 Storage path: S3:amazon:amazon.com/bucket name

Note: 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 restore recovery points from the cloud storage using the Granular Restore Option.

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 Defining a drive-based backup.

See Running a one-time backup from Veritas System Recovery.

See Running a backup from Veritas System Recovery Disk.

See Running an existing backup job immediately.

See Opening and restoring files within a recovery point browser.

See Copying recovery points.

See Recovering files and folders.

See Recovering a secondary drive.

See Recovering a drive.