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Veeam Backup Free Edition 9.0
User Guide

Working with Tape Media

Veeam provides native support for backing up your data to tape. Tape backups is an easy and high-reliable storing scheme protecting your backups from disaster or occasional loss.

To start backing up data to tape, you need to deploy the tape backup infrastructure and configure Veeam Backup Free Edition to meet your secondary destination storage policies.

To back up data to tape, you need to create a tape job that can run manually or on schedule. To restore data from tape, you need to insert the tapes containing the needed data and start the restore process that runs fully automated.

With Veeam Backup Free Edition, you can perform the following operations:

  • Back up to tape files with user data: Veeam Backup Free Edition allows you to back up any files with no limitation to file format. To back up files, you need to create a dedicated file to tape job that is able to archive full and incremental backups of user files. As a data source, you can select any Windows or Linux server that is accessible by the Veeam backup server. You can also write to tape Veeam backups as files.
  • Restore files that were previously archived to tape with file to tape job. The Files from Tape wizard allows you to navigate through the tape archive selecting the files you need and restore them to original location or any other disk or folder in your backup infrastructure.
  • Restore Veeam VM backups from tape to repository. The Restore Backup from Tape to Repository wizard will help you to choose a restore point available on tape and set the target repository.
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