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Change main backup Repository in Veeam File Share Backup Job

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I'm doing POC for a small company which wants to introduce VBR as their backup/DR solution. Among other things, I'm running a File Share Backup job which backups some shares from a QNAP device in the production site. The job uses 3 backup repositories:

Repo 1 (smb repo) is located on another QNAP device in the production site and is used to hold short term backups.
Repo 2 (smb repo) is located on another QNAP device in the DR site and is used to hold the copies of the short term backup restore points.
Repo 3 is located on the same QNAP device as Repo 2 and is used to hold the Archive backup (previous version).
Repo 3 is being backed up by other means to another location, so in case of the device failure, the Archive backups can be retrieved.

I'm trying to simulate a failure of any of the two QNAP backup devices and how would I retrieve the restore points and change the job to be able to continue working.

I have no problems with replacing Repo 2 and 3 with other repos, but when I try to replace Repo1 with a new repo, I get "Unable to change backup repository" error.
I tried to copy the backup files from the original repository to the new one, to rescan the original and the new repository, but the error persists.

Any ideas, please?
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Re: Change main backup Repository in Veeam File Share Backup Job

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Hello,
and welcome to the forums.

What is on the "new repo"? Is it empty (I guess so, because you try to simulate a failure. But I want to be sure)? Or do you try to map Repo 1 to Repo 2?

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Re: Change main backup Repository in Veeam File Share Backup Job

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Hello Hannes,

Thanks for the reply.
Yes, "new repo is a completely empty new repository. I'm not doing any backup job mappings.
Since, my question was how to replace the main repository on the file share backup job, I wouldn't mind mapping the job to the repo 2 where the copies of my short term backup restore points are, but it doesn't work either.
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Re: Change main backup Repository in Veeam File Share Backup Job

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Hello,
backup jobs (no matter which type) require that backups are available on the new repository. So the way is to create a new backup job (cloning the old one saves time).

Mapping to backup copy jobs to backup jobs is impossible today.

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Re: Change main backup Repository in Veeam File Share Backup Job

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Thanks for the tips, Hannes
I think I have pretty much figured it out now.

Just one more quick question regarding the file share backup job.
During a Repository Rescan, my Archive Repository became disassociated form the file share backup job. Now it shows up under Disks (Orphaned) node.
I haven't changed anything in the job or in the repository except rescanning it.
Is there any way to associate that Archive Backup with the original job?
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Re: Change main backup Repository in Veeam File Share Backup Job

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is adding it again in the backup job not working?
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