RFE: VeeaMover

[dellock6]

I wrote a blog post yesterday about a new component Veeam would need to add to VBR, to allow backup replication to different locations:

http://www.vuemuer.it/en/?p=4355

Since this request is often coming out in these forums, If you feel this is a needed feature, leave a comment here so Veeam will know how many of us think it would be a feature to be implemented. I really do hope Veeam will be as responsive as usual and think about adding this functionality in a net release.

Luca.

[kjc3303]

Luca,

This is a very timely Blog as I am at the moment looking at the different option to replicate our backups to our DR site.
We currently use Rev Inc and use VBR to back up to two locations Prod Backup and DR Backup(Offsite). I know this is not ideal as it is very resource intensive and have been testing Rsync and Deltacopy to look at sending our local backups offsite this way.
I have come up against all the issues you mention in your blog, OK Yes I can get this to work with some out the tweaks mentioned on the forums, but this doesn't give me the confidence of having a fully supported product performing the job for me.
I would also like to suggest the ability to Surebackup the moved Backup files at the remote location

Kev

[Moebius]

Couldn't agree more. So far I've been (as many others) fiddling with robocopy jobs and powershell scripts to create offsite copies, but this approach has too many disadvantages that everybody knows and that I'm not going to repeat here.

It seems to me that this request is very popular among users, maybe even more than the tape management module that Veeam seems to be going to make available in the future. Plus, the "VeeaMover" should be far easier to implement than a tape solution. Veeam, are you listening?

[m.novelli]

+1

Really a must-have feature

Marco

[Sethbartlett]

I like the idea. But there is also a trick with replication software. If you write a small script to name your backupfile to just Jobname.vbk(like it used to work in v4) and then replicate it over to the other site and then name it back, you would only replicate the changed blocks. You just need to rename both files to the same name before hand and then change the name back afterwards.

[ivordillen]

+1
would like this very much

Ivor

[Yuki]

also suggested this in my own post, but will bump this as well

+1

[mragusa]

+1

I registered to the Forum today only in the hope to find a solution for the DR-Site Backup Problem. Hope to see this feature soon.