Veeam Backup Copy Job Disk Exclusion

[Xaviertodd]

Here is the scenario:

1.) A BACKUP job with drive exclusion for all but the OS disk was created for three VMs.

2.) A BACKUP COPY job was created from this BACKUP job to send to a NAS we take offsite at night. This was working great, until…

3.) A separate BACKUP job was created for each of those three server NOT excluding the disks that were previously excluded in the first job. This was done to keep a copy of the data on each of those server on-site for fast recovery. However it is to large, nor necessary to carry them offsite.

The problem now is that the BACKUP COPY job is NOT excluding the disks that are excluded in the job that the BACKUP COPY was created from. Any suggestions would be appreciated. The jobs are in different repository on the same server.

[csydas]

Hi Mike,

Backup copy really should inherit the exclusions from the source job added, but you might just want to check how you added the server to the backup copy job, since it kind of sounds like you used the "From Backups" option:

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... tml?ver=95

If a machine that you add to the backup copy job is processed by multiple source backup jobs that use different block sizes, you must not add this machine with the From infrastructure and From backups options. When you add a machine with these options, Veeam Backup & Replication picks the most recent backup as a data source. If Veeam Backup & Replication picks source backups with different block sizes during different backup copy intervals, the backup copy job will fail. To avoid this situation, you must add such a machine with the From jobs option. Alternatively, you can use the Source option to specify from which backup repository Veeam Backup & Replication must retrieve data.

If they're on different repositories, you can just isolate which repository is fair game for backup copies.

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... tml?ver=95

I agree, it should exclude automatically, but there are methods here.