Air Gap Protect

When you have storage needs that change in terms of retention and frequency of restores, you can use the optimized storage options that the Air Gap Protect offers.

With Air Gap Protect, you can do the following:

• Choose either short-term or long-term storage

• Use an easy on-ramp to cloud storage, from one vendor, managed in one interface

• Control costs with optimized storage

• Use unified naming for all cloud storage

Cloud Storage Tiers

With Air Gap Protect, you can have both primary and secondary backup copies for all your workloads in the following cloud storage tiers:

• Amazon S3 Frequent access

• Amazon S3 Infrequent access

• Azure Hot

• Azure Cool

• OCI Standard

• OCI Infrequent access

You can select a cloud storage tier based on the license that you use. When you configure the Commvault Cloud backup gateway, the cloud storage tiers that are available to you are displayed. You can check for subscription usage in the Commvault Cloud Cloud Storage Report. For more information, see Data Stored in the Commvault Cloud Cloud.

Considerations for Backup Copies

• You can use Air Gap Protect as the destination for creating backup copies for your on-premises storage. However, note that:

  • You can create primary copies using the Azure Hot and OCI Standard Storage classes.

  • You can create secondary copies using the following storage classes:

    • Amazon S3 Frequent access
    • Amazon S3 Infrequent access
    • Azure Hot
    • Azure Cool
    • OCI Standard
    • OCI Infrequent access

• Compliance lock is enabled by default for Air Gap Protect.

• The minimum retention period for Azure secondary backup copies is 30 days.

• The minimum retention period for the OCI Infrequent access tier is 31 days.

• Commvault Cloud OCI storage is available only when you use your own backup gateway.

• Azure Files, Azure Blob, Azure VM, and Azure AKS do not support Commvault Cloud OCI storage.