Feature request / general improvement of Backup Copy Jobs

[Tecbil]

This is a cross post, originally set up on reddit as I was unsure whether which place is the right one.
Here is the original post:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Veeam/comments ... d_general/

I've set up the Registry Hack like this

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Path: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Veeam\Veeam Backup and Replication
Key: BackupCopyLookForward
Type: REG_DWORD
Value: 1

as described here:
https://www.veeambp.com/job_configurati ... p_copy_job

This makes my backup copy jobs "listening" and start as soon as main backup jobs are done. So far, so good.

Now what I want to do is to disable the scheduler on the following screenshot completely because in some cases it can be very annoying when it gets in the way of a running backup copy job because the backup copy job will interrupt itself in such case.


Yeah I know I could increase the searching cycle but it's not really an acceptable solution as it could cross running backup copy jobs anyway.

Furthermore I think the backup copy job design could be improved by making it more reliable according to interrupted backup copy jobs. I wish so hard I could restart interrupted backup copy jobs without executing the main backup job again first because of not detecting that the last backup copy job did not complete.

[Egor Yakovlev]

Hi Fabio,
looks like this request will be addressed by VBRv10, with newly added Backup Copy mode: Immediate copy (mirroring). It "listens" for new backups and does not use sync intervals no more.
/Cheers!

[Dima P.]

Tecbil,

disable the scheduler on the following screenshot completely because in some cases it can be very annoying when it gets in the way of a running backup copy job because the backup copy job will interrupt itself in such case.

I believe this could be achieved by enabling/disabling backup copy job (say, you can script it via PowerShell and schedule such script to run at desired time).

[Tecbil]

Hi Fabio,
looks like this request will be addressed by VBRv10, with newly added Backup Copy mode: Immediate copy (mirroring). It "listens" for new backups and does not use sync intervals no more.
/Cheers!

Gr8 to read that. Let's see what's coming.