"Backup Copy" Question.

[Starman]

At my remote offices, I use backup proxies to backup up VM's to the local office storage and then use backup copy to send them over the WAN to my secondary DR datacenter.

I'm doing my usual quarterly copy of my normal backups to 4TB USB drives for permanent storage.

I was wondering if I took the "backup copy" files sitting in my DR datacenter and copied them to the USB drives raw (like I do normal backups) if I would then be able to later down the road in the case of an extreme emergency, add them into a new Veeam build and actually pull out the VM's.

Thank you,

[foggy]

Todd, backup files produced by the backup copy job are ordinary Veeam B&R backups (VBKs and VIBs), just as the ones produced by your "normal" backup jobs. So you would be able to restore from them normally, once required.