Copy of a Veeam backup

[Ripthorn]

We currently backup to a Western Digital My cloud, all successfully. Then once a week I run a sync to copy the files to another WD Mycloud, which is usually kept off-site. However when I run the sync about 16 files (37.6gb) aren't copied as those files are being used by another process.
Questions then:

1) Do I just stop the services(?) of Veeam on the server in order to be able to copy those locked files over.

2) Is this a good/correct method to make a second, offsite, copy. In the event would I be able to restore from this second copy (Yes, I should try it myself, but I guess I need to sort out question one first)?

Thank you for taking the time to read my query.

[PetrM]

Hi Nigel,

The right way to follow 3-2-1 rule is to leverage backup copy job functionality. If you encounter the error during backup copy, then it's better to contact our technical support.

Thanks!

[Ripthorn]

Apologies, I've just realised that it's the veem365 directory that is having issues with the syncing across to the second WD MyCloud. I don't need to worry about that, I'll remove that from the sync.

So my only questions lies with doing a restore from a copied backup image. I'm presuming (but will check when time allows) I can point Veeam to a different restore location?

[PetrM]

Yes, all types of restore including restore to a different location is possible from backup copy.

Thanks!