Has anything changed in v12 regarding writing a single backup job to multiple LTO drives?

[rin]

Hi,

I’ve read in previous forum threads that in v11, it was not possible to write a single backup job (especially one producing a single large VBK file) to multiple LTO drives in parallel within a single tape job.

We are now using Veeam Backup & Replication v12, and I’d like to confirm whether this limitation still applies.
Specifically, if a backup job produces a single VBK file (not per-VM), is there any way to write it to multiple LTO drives simultaneously in v12?
Has there been any change in behavior or supported functionality in this regard?

Thanks.

[Andreas Neufert]

No, in this specific case, no change.

[mkretzer]

It would stil be useful to have this option. We have some very large VM (~50 TB) and currently we have to make shure to get this VM processed very early in our 4 day job run otherwise (if its backed up last) the whole job run takes a day more because only one drive is writing in the end.