Today’s post covers one of my favorite Veeam B&R v12 features.
It’s called “Move Backup.” It helps us move backups from one repository to another automatically, updating the job they belong to, without extra work or problems.
It’s very useful when backups need to be moved because of a storage change, whether due to expansion, maintenance, or a model change. You don’t lose the backup chain or settings, and you don’t have to create a new job.
Let’s look at a few screenshots and walk through the process so you can see how it works and why it’s useful.
Done! The backup is no longer listed in the network repository, only in the new destination, and Veeam has updated the job. There were no changes to the backup chain or settings!
Now let’s run Move Backup again to put the backups back where they were:
Done!
As mentioned earlier, this is a simple and useful process for storage infrastructure changes, repairs, or migrations.
Regards.