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Backup Copy Create Daily Full Backups

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We are creating active full backups on the primary site disk device everyday, then we want to copy them to a deduplication storage in the remote site afterwards.

Since Veeam backup copy jobs ignores the primary site retention policy, it will only create an incremental backup copy on the deduplication device.
No exactly what we want. (GFS is no good because the smallest full backup chain we can create is weekly fulls)

Veeam's file copy jobs does not have any tracking/versioning feature, so we have to copy the every full backup from the primary site every time we run.

Apart from using 3rd party file sync tools, is there any way around this?

Thank you and best regards,
David
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Re: Backup Copy Create Daily Full Backups

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Think I managed to find a workaround.

Create 7 backup copy jobs, each keeping a Weekly Full of 2.
Schedule the 1st job to run on Sunday.
Schedule the 2nd job to run on Monday.
Schedule the 3rd job to run on Tuesday.
etc etc etc. You get the idea...
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Re: Backup Copy Create Daily Full Backups

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David, the following workarounds come from the top of my mind:

1. You could run a second regular backup job to the remote device, though it would hit the original VMs twice.
2. Having several weekly backup copy jobs for each day of the week with weekly GFS retention. (the one you've already come up with yourself while I was writing this)
3. Probably engage the rotated drives scenario by moving or renaming the copied full backup as a post-job task - in this case, the job will start the new backup chain and create the new full backup during next run.

Not ideal, but still. Btw, what is the reason of having active full every day?
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Re: Backup Copy Create Daily Full Backups

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Also, you can use VB&R Cloud Edition in order to copy full backup files to target location. It’s smart enough to copy only new/changed files, and the whole process can be automated via “Backup plan”.

Thanks.
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