Secondary Destination Job Question

[wwickline]

I have a question about setting up a secondary destination for a new backup job. When I go to make a "New Backup to Tape Job", and add a backup job, the job needs to exist first. When I go to make a "New Backup Job" and choose to a Configure secondary destination, the Backup to Tape job must exist first.

Am I just missing something concept wise? I looked through the manual and I don't see a clear common practice. What is the best situation? Define the job with no secondary, then define the tape job, then go back and edit the job and add the secondary? Or define a job, then define a tape, then define a third job?

Thanks

[veremin]

What is the best situation?

In fact, it’s completely up to you what approach to choose here. Though, I'd say that in overwhelming majority of environments backup jobs either are created first or have been already created with previous product versions, so, the only thing you have to do in this case is to add corresponding "backup to tape" jobs in accordance with your needs and desires.

Thanks.

[Gostev]

Secondary Destination in primary backup jobs is designed for quick adding newly created primary backup jobs to existing Backup Copy or Backup to Tape job. This functionality is not for initial setup, but to make life easier in future. Just ignore this step when setting up your first primary backup job. Thanks!

[wwickline]

That explains it.

Thanks!

[tom11011]

Hi Group,

Running Veeam 7.0 patch 2 Enterprise Plus Edition.

I am creating a backup job and selecting the option to "Configure secondary destinations for this job". As soon as I click the box, a message box pops up and says "Create at least one backup copy or backup to tape job first".

I'm confused by this. If I create a separate backup copy job, why would I need to check this box in this job?

Thanks.

[foggy]

Tom, please see Anton's explanation above. Hope this answers your question. Thanks.

[tom11011]

Ok, I still don't understand though

[foggy]

Simply put, you need at least one backup copy or backup to tape job to be already created to be able to use this option. You cannot specify secondary destination for backups when there's no job that will perform the corresponding activity (copying backups to a secondary location).

[tom11011]

ok, I see what you are saying. Basically, if I only want this to run once per day, there is no point in including it in the original job since the job already needs to exist.

Also, will copy backups work if my backup job that it will be copying is reverse incremental?

[foggy]

Yes, for backup copy job, it doesn't matter what source backup jobs are set to: forward or reversed incremental mode.

[tom11011]

Thank you.