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Should I run 2 jobs, or just copy backup files offsite

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Quick question. I've been using Veeam to backup to a Synology NAS for over a year now and it's worked flawless. We finally have the bandwidth in place to push backups to a second Synology NAS located at one of our other offices.

What I'm trying to figure out is if I should create a second backup job in Veeam to backup to the offsite NAS, or if I should just use a sync program or something to copy all the backup data of the existing jobs from NAS-1 to NAS-2.

It seems like copying the data instead of having 2 backup jobs running in Veeam would be faster, I just want to make sure from a recovery standpoint that's a good idea.

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Re: Should I run 2 jobs, or just copy backup files offsite

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Hi Tim,
Please consider backup copy job, since it`s made exactly for cases like yours.
It performs synchronization process of the source backup repository(NAS-1 in your case) and copies new restore points to the target repository(NAS-2). You can also leverage WAN Acceleration capabilities to speed up the process.
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Re: Should I run 2 jobs, or just copy backup files offsite

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I've used the backup copy job before. If NAS-1 was to get corrupted, can you do a full restore of a VM from a backup copy job on NAS-2?
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Re: Should I run 2 jobs, or just copy backup files offsite

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Yes, for sure. There will be full-fledged backup files.
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