Dear Community,
A customer asked me for a very simple feature: He wants to backup all his VMs in a single job (B2D, standard business, works fine), but only copy a part of these VMs to tape afterwards (Disk2Tape).
First I told him no problem, but then saw that I can actually only select whole jobs or repositories as the source for a tape job. Is this really such an unusual customer request or did I miss something?
Does anyone have an idea?
You mean they want just like specific disks and such to tape?
Indeed, unless I've missed something, Veeam just backs up whatever the 'primary' job backed up. If the primary jobs have full backups, then tape will also.
Tape is an "extension" of the primary backups, not a stand-alone as I understand it. You can "sort of" do this with File to Tape, but I advise against this.
A fast workaround, however, is export the desired content to disk (folders, disks, etc), and back that up and delete the content once done.
The way to do this is to split up the regular Veeam backups into two jobs. Then configure a tape job for only one of the Veeam backups. You cannot do exactly what the customer is requesting. However, there is no real downside to having multiple VM backup jobs. Many large environments have dozens of jobs.
In Veeam, tape backup does not backup VMs. It backs up jobs or repositories. So in order to split up your VMs going to tape you have to split them across jobs or repositories.
Taylor is right: you can split existing jobs or, say, create a backup copy jobs for only selected VMs and then use such backup copy job as a source for backup to tape. Cheers!
