Job schedule & Backup Copy to offsite location

[Pat490]

As I am new to Veeam I have a question about correct scheduling.

We have a working regular backup job for several VMs running daily Mondays-Saturdays (reverse Incremental with 7 retention points). Now I also want a weekly copy backup job to backup to secondary offline repository. The copy job I only want weekly and keep maybe monthly backups and maybe quarterly also.

How do I plan this? Add a seperate copy job or link the copy job in main job as secondary destination? It should run automatically right after the main backup!

We are running v8 update 2!
btw shouldn't I get notification about available update 2A?

[Shestakov]

Hello Patrick!
The way to go for you is a backup copy job using the reverse incremental backup job as a source.
You can schedule the backup copy job to run weekly and keep needed number of restore points. For monthlies and quarterlies restore points, the best option is a GFS retention.

By the way, Update 2a is already available. Thanks!

[Pat490]

in the new copy job I have to add the same VMs again or does it use the settings from source job?

I know Update 2a is available, that is why I am asking. I thought I get a notification on my backup server to automatically update?!

[Shestakov]

Correct, you need choose VMs to backup copy. You can add them from infrastructure, backup or from the source job.
Thanks!

[Pat490]

In the GFS retention settings, are the GFS restore points (weekly/monthly/quarterly/yearly) additional to the "main" amount of restore points to keep?
Or when I choose 7 restore points general, than I can only pick 2 weekly + 2 monthly + 3 quarterly? 7=2+2+3?

[Shestakov]

are the GFS restore points (weekly/monthly/quarterly/yearly) additional to the "main" amount of restore points to keep?

Correct, the total number of restore points will be 12 in this case. 7 recent + 5 GFS(historical).
Thanks!

[Pat490]

thank you!

[Pat490]

Sorry, but now I have one more question about this backup copy job.
How do I correctly schedule the copy to have it run right after the main backup job?

Main backup is set to run reverse incremental daily (Mo-Fr) at 11pm and keep 14 restore points plus Friday active full. Copy job is activated as secondary destination.

In copy job I want to keep only full backups. It is set to 2 restore points, 2 monthly, 2 quarterly.

As soon as I enable the copy job it starts copying immediately but it should only start after the main backup.

[Shestakov]

Patrick,

As soon as I enable the copy job it starts copying immediately but it should only start after the main backup.

It performs copying only if finds missing restore points.
I would set backup window option for backup copy job to make it run only after the source job is done. Thanks!

[foggy]

Or you can set the copy interval start time to somewhat several minutes after the source backup starts. Backup copy will start new interval and wait until new restore point is available.

[Pat490]

ok i will try that and will see what will happen tonight

[Pat490]

I set it to start at 11:10pm but as soon as I enable the job it starts copying immediately

[foggy]

It means that there're points that were not yet copied. Once the next sync interval starts, the job will start monitoring new restore points. Alternatively, you can enable forward lookup for the backup copy job.

[Shestakov]

Thanks for mentioning the forward lookup feature, foggy.
Patrick, I meant making backup window not for 11.10pm, but when the source job finishes its run, so the backup copy job would copy the very last restore point.