Backup copy question

[robg]

Does a backup copy job begin a new chain at the remote target, starting with a full backup, or does it only copy the latest snapshot?

If the latter, how is this useful in a disaster if the main site is gone?

[Mike Resseler]

Hi Rob,

See here: https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... tml?ver=95

The first backup copy interval of the backup copy job always produces a full backup file

Cheers
Mike

[robg]

The first backup copy interval of the backup copy job always produces a full backup file

Thanks, but this has not been my experience.. I am on 9.0. Do you know if this behavior has changed?

[Mike Resseler]

Not that I know or can remember. What is the behavior you are seeing?

[robg]

Not that I know or can remember. What is the behavior you are seeing?

I have created a backup copy of a VM with data that is about 180 G. I ran a backup copy over a 10M connection that took 2 days to run, and then it created a backup that was about 90 G, there were no errors.

This looked off to me, so I decided to test it. I started a restore process from the backup copy source with the target as the remote VM host. This should have been a relatively fast operation since it was restoring to the same host, but instead it was moving at 10M/s. I concluded from that it was probably retrieving the needed data from the main repository, over the network, because the backup copy was incomplete. hope this makes sense, and thanks for your time.

[Mike Resseler]

Rob,

Not sure to be honest what would be causing this. Maybe there is something wrong in the configuration. I would advise to log a support call so that our engineers can dive into the logs to see what is happening

Please put the case ID here and the follow-up.

Sorry I can't help you further

[foggy]

Rob, any chance the remote repository is CIFS?

[robg]

No,it was defined as a proper server, with components installed, etc. A windows 2012 VM with the repository on D:\

[Mike Resseler]

Rob,

Could you log that support call? Our engineers will have much more information from the logs to see what is happening

Thanks
Mike

[foggy]

Yep, they will be able to identify how the restore traffic goes, since it looks much like the backup server is involved for some reason, and verify the reasons of this behavior, if this is the case.