How to use tags in copy jobs?

[TimoW]

Dear Community,
since colleagues tend to forget to let me know when new VMs are rolled out, I've gotten into the habit of including the entire VMware cluster as the source in a backup job.
This ensures that all VMs are always backed up and none are forgotten.
But now I want to be able to tag selected VMs in vCenter. And only these VMs (of course their backups) should additionally be copied to a second destination via a copy job.
Unfortunately, I can only select a backup job as a source in the copy job and cannot filter by tags.
I can exclude VMs with certain tags, but I don't find this very intuitive and error-prone.
Is there possibly a better way to solve the problem?

Any ideas are really appreciated. Thank you very much!
Timo

[foggy]

Hi Timo, just to confirm, are you talking about Immediate copy jobs (as tags are available in Periodic copy jobs)?

Also, what is the actual concern? If your idea is to copy all backups (created based on tags), then you do not need the flexibility to select VMs in the backup copy jobs. Thanks!

[TimoW]

Hi Alexander,
yes, I'm talking about immediate copy jobs.
My concern is:
I would like to backup ALL VMs. This is easy, by just choosing the whole cluster (instead of single VMs) as backup elements.
And I just would like to copy only some (a subset) VMs to a second destination (cloud repository). All the test VMs, templates and unimportant shouldn't be copied to the cloud.
Thank you!
Timo

[foggy]

Understood. Then you can have a separate backup job for those with the tag assigned and use it as a source for the backup copy.

[TimoW]

Ohh ... yes, that sounds like a good idea. It's not perfect because it will need more space at the repository but it will do the job.
Thank you!