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 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 section Tape Devices Deployment.
• Configure the tape infrastructure as described in steps 1–3 in section Getting Started with Tapes.

To copy VM instance backups to tapes, create a backup to tape job as described in section Creating Backup to Tape Jobs.