VMware vSphere • Health Check on Remote Backup Copy Job

Hello,

we have the following configuration:

Source job:

• Incremental with weekly synthetic full backups

• Keep 4 weekly

• daily surebackup

• weekly health check

Backup copy job:

• Immediate copy

• 14 days retention and keep 4 weekly and 12 monthly

• Hardened immuatable repository at remote side

• disabled health check

We had initially enabled health check and it took more than one day, there is a direct connection between both sides with 400 MBit/s and it's about 12 TB data. We'd like to enable health check for the backup copy repository but I am still not sure how to achieve this without having it running for days. Actually there is no chance to install a server at the remote side. Maybe there is another way to do this? In the GUI it's not possible to split the health check in groups, or did I miss something?

Just for my clarification, the health check checks the latest restore point but with the whole chain (VBK+VIBs) to ensure that this restore point is valid for restore. Am I right? The documentation is somehow not clear for me as it sounds like that only the latest restore point (just the VIB) is checked.

Thanks!

Statistics: Posted by redhorse — May 05, 2025 7:39 am

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