Backup Copy Job External Drives (Multiple) "Already Copied"

[WMUDLeV]

Going to try to explain this the best I can. I like this process and would like to continue using it with the current "Backup Copy" method opposed to the old "Legacy Backup Copy Job".

Currently: I have a set of drives that I rotate each day and then each week. Example: Disk 1 is attached, Legacy backup copy job copies the backups to Disk 1. I then eject disk 1 to take off-site and insert Disk 2. I then choose Sync and the job is rerun to add the backups to Disk 2. Effectively I have 2 external disks with the same backup copies on them. Next day, Disk 2 is already attached, the "Legacy Backup Copy Job" copies the new backups to Disk 2. I eject Disk 2 and Insert Disk 1, run Sync to start another copy job. I have 2 external disks with the same backup copies on them. At the end of the week, I swap disk 1 out with Disk 3, so now Disks 2 & 3 play the swap game and I have Disk 1 with last week's backups on it. This goes on through about two months until disk one gets recycled again into the mix.

I like this setup. There's one on site ready to get new copies, there's one off site for safe keeping.

With our move to Hyper-V I had to create non-legacy "Backup Copy Jobs". Trying to do this the same way using the same drives, there is no sync option. If I manually use the "Start" option it completes within seconds at 100% with all VMs showing "Latest Restore Point Already Copied" but it isn't on the attached disk, it is on the previous disk.

How can I get a modern "Backup Copy" job to create two copies?

[edh]

Forget about USB / External, its 2025, you can do a SORB Storage on Veeam enable a config that will duplicate the backup in two storages on diferent sites making it inmutable if necesary and encrypted and monited without that manual handling that looks like 80's. What happend if you get ill or worst? Make things simple and safe and it will work.