VAW offload full backup

[agrob]

Good Day

On a remote site we have 2 physical servers. we want to move away from Backup Exec. I thought about install VAW Server Edition on both systems and backup them to a NAS share. That is no problem. Now i like to offload the latest full backup every weekend to a usb drive so that they can be taken off site.

1. I could configure the nas to offload the vbk file, but as VAW uses forward incremental, the vbk file has not the latest data stored. -> is thare any way to configure VAW to use reverse incremental backup?
2. i could configure the nas as a backup repository in our central veeam environment and configure the two vaw to backup to the repsoitory. then i could configure a backup copy job to a usb drive connected to one of the two servers. is there any way i could configure the backup copy job to do a "synthetic" full backup to this usb drive? and if yes, does veeam recoginzed the rotated usb drives?

Or is there any other way to offload the latest backup point to usb? i don't want to offload the whole backup chain (full and increment) to usb. the plan is to hold as much retention point on the nas as possible.

Thanks
best regards
andré

[Dima P.]

Hello André,

is thare any way to configure VAW to use reverse incremental backup?

Unfortunately VAW does not support reversed incremental backup mode.

is there any way i could configure the backup copy job to do a "synthetic" full backup to this usb drive? and if yes, does veeam recoginzed the rotated usb drives?

I believe Backup Copy from NAS repository (added to VBR console) to a repository with Rotated Drive option enabled is a solution.