full then incremental file backup

[Endeavour]

Hi
I am trying to setup basic tape backup: veeam windows server, with a single integrated LTO tape drive.

I dont care about tape rotations or anything like that its one set of tapes to backup a data drive. The data spans multiple tapes

anyway, what I want to achieve is to do a single full backup, then afterwards do incremental backups for anything which has changed since the last backup point.

What I am looking for ideally is to do one big backup over multiple tapes (which takes many hours) and then ad-hoc do incremental to a fresh tape which hopefully wont take very long
Is this possible with file to tape backups?

[Mildur]

Hi Endeavour

Yes, you can choose a media pool for the incremental backups. The job wizard doesn't allow you to schedule an immediate incremental backup. But you could use scripts and scheduled windows tasks to achieve something similar.

Tape Full Backup: Get-VBRTapeJob -Name "F2T-Jobname" | Start-VBRJob -FullBackup
Incremental: Get-VBRTapeJob -Name "F2T-Jobname" | Start-VBRJob

Best,
Fabian