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Move compressed GFS to Dedupe Appliance

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Hello,

I would like to move older archived GFS backups form a windows server to a Datadomain. Those backups are compressed, and it would be much better if I cloud "decompress" those before moving them.
Backup copy job processes only new backups so, is there a way to change the format of the backups before moving them?

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Re: Move compressed GFS to Dedupe Appliance

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Hi Cristiano,

GFS backup points are self-contained, so you can just move these VBK files manually or using file copy jobs. Changing the format/compression of the already created file is not possible.

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You could copy a VBK into a separate repository and perform backup copy from it (limiting the source scope) with compression disabled. But this should be performed for every backup, so might be pretty tedious.
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Hi Foggy,

but AFAIK the copy job just copies new backups, not the older ones, right?
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Right, backup copy copies the latest VM state available in the source repository. I meant performing this procedure for each of the GFS points separately.
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Re: Move compressed GFS to Dedupe Appliance

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Ok, now I get it. A bit tedious yes.
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