Archiving Single files on Tape

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Hello Community,

usually we use Veeam to backup our VMs. Beside our VM-infrastructure we also have 2 large Windows Servers with several PB of storage attached to them via SAS. The storage volumes are shared via CIFS for our workstations.

Currently we do not backup these two Windows Servers because all their data is already at a safe 2nd location. However sometimes the safe 2nd location does not exist (e.g. the data does not exist on individual storage media at archive locations).

We would like to create a copy for these data-sets to LTO-9 with Veeam.

- Is this something you would recommend at all or should I use a different product / approach?
- Licensing: We recently migrated to VUL. If we add the 2 storage servers as NAS/unstructured data they would consume like 1 VUL for each 0.5TB of archived date. Given that those data-sets range in the area of 200-400GB that seems excessive for a one time thing.
- Licensing: If we add the storages as Windows servers via the agent they would consume only one VUL each. Any drawbacks with this approach?
- Process: Is there any way of creating a 1 time archive copy2tape job with the same ease as say using the Veeam-ZIP functionality to create a quick export for a VM? We don't need these jobs to be recurring. The data is stale is not changing in any way, it's just a 2nd copy for BCM reasons being locked away in a safe location.

Thanks for your input