Copying Backups to Tapes

Veeam Backup & Replication allows you to automate copying of image-level backups of VM instances to tape devices and lets you specify scheduling, archiving and media automation options. For more information on the supported tape libraries, see the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide, section Tape Devices Support.

Before you start copying backup to tapes:

• Copy VM instance backups to on-premises backup repositories as described in section Creating Backup Copy Jobs.

• Connect tape devices to Veeam Backup & Replication as described in the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide, section Tape Devices Deployment.
• Configure the tape infrastructure as described in steps 1–3 in the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide, section Getting Started with Tapes.

To copy VM instance backups to tapes, create a backup to tape job as described in the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide, section Creating Backup to Tape Jobs.