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The backup copy job defines when, what, how and where to copy. To copy backups, you need to configure backup copy jobs. The backup copying process does not affect virtual and physical infrastructure resources, does not require creation of additional VM snapshots or VSS snapshots and does not produce load on machines whose backups are copied.īackup copy is a job-driven process. When the backup copying process starts, Veeam Backup & Replication accesses backup files in the source backup repository, retrieves data blocks for a specific machine from the backup file, copies them to the target backup repository, and composes copied blocks into a backup file in the target backup repository. If it was recreated (all restore points have been deleted and created anew), you must create a new backup copy job with a new chain of backups. In this case, make sure the source chain for the backup copy job was not recreated.

When copying backups from external repositories, consider that there can be a situation when new restore points were not copied.

You can copy such backups from external repositories but not to them.

Backups created with Veeam Backup for RHVĬonsider the following for copying backups created with Veeam Backup for AWS, Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure or Veeam Backup for Google Cloud :.Backups of VM instances created with Veeam Backup for Google Cloud.Backups of Microsoft Azure virtual machines created with Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure.Backups of Amazon EC2 instances created with Veeam Backup for AWS.

File share backups created with Veeam Backup & Replication.Backups stored in an HPE StoreOnce backup repository.Backups of Oracle, SAP HANA and Microsoft SQL Server databases created with Veeam Plug-ins for Enterprise Applications.Backups of Nutanix AHV virtual machines created with Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV.Backups of virtual and physical machines created with Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows, Veeam Agent for Linux, Veeam Agent for Mac, Veeam Agent for Oracle Solaris or Veeam Agent for IBM AIX.

Backups of Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines created with Veeam Backup & Replication.

Backups of VMware vSphere or VMware Cloud Director virtual machines created with Veeam Backup & Replication.

Veeam Backup & Replication supports backup copy for the following types of backups: The backup copy file has the same format as the primary backup, so you can restore necessary data directly from it in case of a disaster. Target backup repositories can be located in the same site as the source backup repository or can be deployed off-site. With backup copy, you can create several instances of the same backup file and copy them to secondary (target) backup repositories for long-term storage.