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Offsite Backup Copy with EMC Data Domain

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Hi,

I have read in veeam-backup-replication-f2/ddboost-off ... 25433.html, to replicate a backup copy to DR site with EMC datadomain, we need to make a copy of the original backup MTREE to another MTREE and to replicate that MTREE to the DR site MTREE.

Is that the recommended architecture and how to restore a replicated backup from DR site afterwards. (Do we need to have same production site Veeam architecture in DR to do the restore..)

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Re: Offsite Backup Copy with EMC Data Domain

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Hi Indika, in case of using external replication, you can import replicated backups into Veeam B&R installation and perform restores.
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Re: Offsite Backup Copy with EMC Data Domain

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Indika,
As Foggy said you would have to import the replicated backups. It would be great if Veeam was aware of the DD replication as it's certainly more efficient and less problematic than backup copies IME. However I decided to do Veeam backup copies instead of DD replication because of the rescan time is pretty long as well as the backup copy job allows you to set different retentions for DR. I wanted to just keep more recent backups locally and keep my long term backups offsite.
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Re: Offsite Backup Copy with EMC Data Domain

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Thanks guys for the insights...
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