Two jobs to one tape daily

[muller7]

Hello!
I have 4 jobs:
-Full Daily Virtual Machines to HD
-Full Daily Virtual Machines to tape
-Storage to HD
-Storage to tape (this is the last job I created)

I want to run these two jobs to just one tape daily, on weekdays:

-Full Daily Virtual Machines to tape
-Storage to tape

What I spected:

-After the job Storage to tape, I am with problems, because these delete my backup "Full Daily Virtual Machines Tape", remaining just the storage to tape files.

Can I use two jobs to do a daily backup to just one tape?

Please help me!

[HannesK]

Hello,
I'm not sure which kind of jobs the 4 jobs are, so I do some guesses in my answer. The information needed is: type of job (backup job, tape job) and what is "storage"?

because these delete my backup "Full Daily Virtual Machines Tape

uhm, a tape job does not delete backup files. Not sure what it is about.

Can I use two jobs to do a daily backup to just one tape?

With Veeam, backup jobs always go to disk first. From there a copy to tape can be done. One tape job can copy multiple backup jobs to tape, yes.

Best regards,
Hannes

[muller7]

Hello@HannesK

My 4 jobs:

-Full Daily Virtual Machines to HD (Hyper-V Backup)
-Full Daily Virtual Machines to tape (Backup to Tape)
-Storage/NAS WD My Cloud/file share to HD (File Backup)
-Storage/NAS WD My Cloud/file share to tape (File to Tape Backup)

So your suggestion is for me to use a "file to tape backup", and copy these files:

-Hyper-V Backup
-File Backup

to tape. Am I right? Thank so you much.

A thing I learned is if I use your sugestions, that the file to tape backup doesn't stay at the Backups menu and Backups>Tape menu. These backups files and information only can be viewd by tape infrastructure, right click, properties of the tape.

[HannesK]

Hello,
my orinval suggestion is to use "backups to tape" jobs as the handling is easier. If you are on standard / community edition, then only file-to-tape is an option. With the NAS share, it's not an option if you want to have only one tape job.

I assume that this File Backup is used... the problem is, that NAS backup today does not really have an option to copy from disk to tape. So the "file-to-tape" backup job you use is a valid workaround, yes.

Yes right, the backups are in tapes... we plan improvements on usability there

To summarize: the file-to-tape job sounds like the best option for what you do. Just add all sources and it should do what you asked for.

Best regards,
Hannes