Tape from StoreOnce - nothing visible in repo

[tom4784]

Hi,

I'm trying to implement the exact scenario mentioned in this thread:

tape-f29/backups-created-by-backup-copy ... 68603.html

Which is this:

1. Backup to StoreOnce repository
2. Optimized StoreOnce copy of this repository to another StoreOnce on another site
3. Copy to Tape (second site) of optimized copy

...and I'm having the same issue - I can create the job fine, selecting 'Backup repository' as the source and selecting the StoreOnce repo in question. It say '0 bytes' in the size column which was an instant red flag, but when running the job it simply ignores the StoreOnce repo. The repo definitely has things in it which I can browse through using the Veeam console connected to the same Veeam server.

In that thread, it was noted this was an upcoming feature and that was a couple of years ago, I'm running the latest version of Veeam and it appears this hasn't yet been implemented? Could someone confirm?

Kind regards,

Tom

[Dima P.]

Hello Tom,

Thank you for your post, can you please raise a support case and share the case ID?

[tom4784]

Hi,

Case raised, it's: 02739409

[tom4784]

Support got back to me:

Even though the backup files are visible in the repo (within backup copy jobs in the console) because the original backup wasn't done on the Veeam server it will skip them - despite being visible and readable by the local Veeam server front end.

It was suggested that the backups are copied again to local storage to solve the problem - but this seems a really inefficient way of going about things and wastes (a lot) of space I don't have - I can't really think of another way around it though - has anyone done anything similar?

Seems odd that this has been done 'by design' ?

Thanks

Tom