I have a Backup Copy job that created an off-site copy of the entire server and not the individaul HDD that I had selected.
Let me explain what I'm trying to do. My Veeam software in supplied as SAAS, I don't have enough repository space in my off-site location for the server to perform an off-site Backup Copy job of the entire server.
I have a forward incremental backup job backing up to a local repository in my server room.
Server A = 1.3Tb is size.
Full backup creates a 918GB .vbk file
Windows 2008 R2 with 5 drives
I created a second Backup Job for Server A. Selected only the 1 drive (drive 5) that I must have for DR as the data is not anywhere else. I figured I could rebuild the server easily enough and then restore this core data.
Forward incremental backup job for Drive 5 only backing up to a local repository in my server room.
Drive = 450GB
Drive Space Used = 377GB
Full backup creates a 290GB .vbk file
I have this set to 7 restore points (7 days, as I backup once a day) with a Synthetic full every Saturday.
I then created a Backup Copy job and added "From Backups" the backup job name of the individual drive only.
Under Virtual Machines / objects to process it shows the size of the task to be 450GB = correct.
The job filled the off-site repository with a 612GB file. This seed took about 10 days to get across the WAN link.
Looking at the Copy Job it shows that it is taking the entire 1.3TB server and not my individual HDD.
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24/09/2015 12:55:41 AM :: Copying restore point 9/23/2015 11:58:33 PM from backup repository Repo-2
24/09/2015 12:55:41 AM :: Queued for processing at 9/24/2015 12:55:41 AM
24/09/2015 12:55:41 AM :: Required backup infrastructure resources have been assigned
24/09/2015 12:55:41 AM :: VM processing started at 9/24/2015 12:55:41 AM
24/09/2015 12:55:41 AM :: VM size: 1.3 TB
24/09/2015 12:56:10 AM :: Network traffic will be encrypted
24/09/2015 12:56:26 AM :: Saving ServerA.vmx 0:00:01
24/09/2015 12:56:27 AM :: Saving ServerA.vmxf 0:00:02
24/09/2015 12:56:30 AM :: Saving ServerA.nvram 0:00:02
24/09/2015 12:57:03 AM :: Hard disk 1 (50.0 GB) 2.3 GB read at 509 KB/s 1:17:37
24/09/2015 2:15:15 AM :: Hard disk 2 (160.0 GB) 7.9 GB read at 505 KB/s 4:32:19
24/09/2015 6:48:10 AM :: Hard disk 3 (640.0 GB) 48.0 GB read at 1 MB/s 11:41:03
24/09/2015 6:29:42 PM :: Hard disk 4 (15.0 GB) 2.3 GB read at 6 MB/s 00:06:51
24/09/2015 6:36:59 PM :: Hard disk 5 (450.0 GB) 26.8 GB read at 1 MB/s 5:23:03
25/09/2015 12:00:06 AM :: Copy interval has expired
25/09/2015 12:00:06 AM :: Busy: Source 0% > Proxy 0% > Network 99% > Target 0%
25/09/2015 12:00:06 AM :: Primary bottleneck: Network
25/09/2015 12:00:06 AM :: Network traffic verification detected no corrupted blocks
25/09/2015 12:00:06 AM :: Processing finished with warnings at 9/25/2015 12:00:06 AM
25/09/2015 12:00:06 AM :: Initial copy did not complete, and will resume on the next copy interval