Tape • Can we import backup copies and backup repository to a tape?

Hi.
Specific scenario.

SITE1 - Company A
Vmware environment with VBR and tape library.

SITE2 - Company B
A customers site with VBR. Their offsite copies are being sent (with WAN accelerator) to SITE1. Backup repository on SITE1 for this customer is configured as: A VM on Vmware environment with iscsi refs formated volume connected to NAS Synology.

How can we put customers backup copies to tape located on SITE1?

One option would be that on SITE1 we make a backup of VM where customers Veeam backup repository for copies is set and then create a backup job on SITE1 that would backup this particular isci mounted volume, and then backup that to tale. But in this case Veeam would backup Veeams backup copies and that doesnt sound ok, and also if we would need to restore some specific VM we would need to restore entire content.

Is there a way to represent customers offsite backup repository in VBR environment on SITE1 in a way: we have a VM with backup copies, please import this copies into VBR (and dont interrupt backup copy jobs with import) and just create tape job which would store that repository to tape?

The idea is, that customer doesnt have air gapped backup yet and they dont have a backup library on their site, but since we do have it in our SITE1 we would like to put their offsite backup copies to tape once a year and we are trying to figure it out what would be the most optimal way/approach to achieve this.

Statistics: Posted by BostjanUNIJA — May 17, 2025 5:01 am

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