Performing Backup Copy for Veeam Agent Backups

You can configure backup copy jobs that will copy backups created with Veeam Agent to a secondary backup repository.

Backup copy jobs treat Veeam Agent backups as usual backup files. The backup copy job setup and processing procedures practically do not differ from the same procedures for a backup copy job that processes VM backups. To learn more about backup copy jobs, see the Backup Copy section in the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide.

Prerequisites and Limitations

Before creating a backup copy for Veeam Agents backups, consider the following:

• When you copy Veeam Agent backup jobs that process failover clusters, the backup copy job ignores the Use per-machine backup files option enabled for the backup repository and creates a single backup copy file for each failover cluster.

To learn more, see the Backup Chain Formats section in the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide.

• When you copy Veeam Agent backup jobs that process failover clusters with shared disks, the network traffic is higher compared to the traffic sent when Veeam Agent backup jobs run. This happens because Veeam Agent backup copy jobs send data as it is stored in the storage — each node with the cloned data — unlike Veeam Agent backup jobs that send data of shared disks only with the owner node and then, within the target storage, clone this data to other nodes.

• Data deduplication is not available when you copy Veeam Agent backup jobs that process failover clusters with shared disks to an object storage repository.

• [For the legacy periodic copy mode] You can map a Veeam Agent backup copy job only to a backup created by backup copy job that processes backups created by Veeam Agent operating in the standalone mode.

Restoring Data from Copies of Veeam Agent Backups

Backups copied to the secondary backup repository do not preserve user access permissions. At the same time, users who created backups do not have access permissions on these secondary repositories. For this reason, users cannot restore data from their backups residing in the secondary site.

To overcome this limitation, you can delegate the restore task to backup administrators who work with Veeam Backup & Replication. Backup administrators can use Veeam Backup & Replication options to recover data from such backups: for example, perform file-level restore or retrieve necessary application items with Veeam Explorers.

You can also restore data from the copied backup stored in the target repository using Veeam Agent.