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Recipe: Create a Veeam Backup Copy Job for VMs and Physical Machines

Expected deliverables:

A Veeam Backup Copy Job to create a secondary copy of the backups and meet the 3-2-1 rule.

Time to complete: 5 minutes

Ingredients:

• Backup infrastructure components that will take part in the backup copy process must be added to the backup infrastructure. This include source and target backup repositories.
• If you plan to use WAN accelerators, check that you use the Enterprise Plus edition of Veeam Backup & Replication and that target and source WAN accelerators are added to the backup infrastructure.
• You need the source VM or Computer (Agent) has at least one successfully created restore point to be copied with a Backup Copy Job.

Before you start:

Since version 12, Veeam Backup & Replication has an unified Backup Copy job wizard for any kind of image-level backups of Virtual and Physical machines. Within one backup copy job, Veeam Backup & Replication processes workloads of one platform only.

Assumptions:

It’s assumed that you already have a Veeam Backup Server fully working in your environment.

Method:

1. On the Home tab, click Backup Copy and click in Image-level backup copy.
2. At the Name step, specify a job name and description. Select a backup copy mode:
   • Select Immediate copy to copy new restore points and, if required, log backups as soon as they appear.
   • Select Periodic copy to copy the most recent restore points once within a backup copy interval.
3. At the Objects step, select workloads whose restore points you want to copy to the target backup repository
   • Click Add and select a type of a source from which you want to copy restore points: From jobs, From repositories or From backups (this one is only available for backup copy jobs that process backups of Amazon EC2 instances, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud).
   • In the Add Objects window, select the necessary sources or workloads and click in Add.
   • (For the immediate copy mode) If you have configured processing of transaction log backups in the source backup jobs, and want to copy these log backups to the target repository, select the Include database transaction log backups check box.
4. At the Target step, define a target backup repository and configure retention policy:
   • From the Backup repository list, select a backup repository where copied backups must be stored. Make sure it has enough free space.
   • In the Retention Policy field, specify retention policy settings whether based in Days or Restore Points.
   • If you want to enable GFS for Long-Term retention, then select the Keep certain full backups longer for archival purposes check box and configure GFS options.
5. At the Data Transfer step you can select how Veeam will transport backed up data — directly (default) or through WAN accelerators.
   • If you select the Through built-in WAN accelerators option, you must select a source and target WAN Accelerator from the list.
6. At the Schedule step,
   • For periodic backup copy job: specify the schedule according to your requirements for the Backup Copy job.
   • For immediate backup copy job: you can define a time span in which the backup copy job must not transport data between source and target backup repositories. By default the Job will run continously (Any time). Click Apply.
7. At the Summary step, review details of the backup copy job. Select the Enable the job when I click Finish check box if you want to start the job right after you finish working with the wizard, otherwise leave the check box unselected. Then click Finish to close the wizard

Links to Resources:

• Veeam Guides and Helpcenter
• Veeam Community Forums
• Veeam Best Practices

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