Creating backup copy jobs

Backup copies are duplicates of your backups that are stored on a secondary target. Unitrends recommends having a second copy of your backups in order to recover from a disaster. The 10.3.0 Beta release supports the following:

Hot backup copy to another Unitrends appliance. (The target appliance must be running Beta release 10.3.0. You can either upgrade an existing appliance or deploy a new Unitrends Backup appliance to use as the hot backup copy target. See Deploy or upgrade appliances for details.)
Hot backup copy to a Beta target in the Unitrends Cloud. Backup copy to the Unitrends Cloud is supported for newly configured Beta Cloud targets only.
Cold backup copy to these devices: eSATA, USB, tape, third-party cloud, attached disk, NAS, and SAN.

To copy backups, start by adding the backup copy target to your Unitrends backup appliance:

Beta Unitrends Cloud target – Contact Unitrends Support for assistance. For details, see Backup appliance that is copying backups to the Unitrends Cloud.
All other targets – Add the target by using the applicable procedure in Backup copy targets in the Administrator Guide for Recovery Series, Recovery MAX, and Unitrends Backup.

After you have added the target, see these topics to start copying your backups:

Preparing to create a backup copy job

The following considerations apply to backup copies:

Backups that complete successfully (green) or with warnings (yellow) are eligible for backup copy jobs. Failed (red) backups are not copied.
Your backup copy storage can contain only one copy of a given backup. If you attempt to create a copy of a backup that has already been written to the target, it is not written, but other backups in the job are copied. The original backup copy remains intact with the original backup copy date.
Backup copies stored on external media are known as cold backup copies. Cold backup copies reside on cloud storage managed by third-party vendors or on other media, such as eSATA, tape, and NAS devices.
Backup copies stored in the Unitrends Cloud or on a second Unitrends appliance are known as hot backup copies. (Hot backup copy to the production Unitrends Cloud is not supported for this Beta release. To add a Beta Unitrends Cloud target, see Backup appliance that is copying backups to the Unitrends Cloud.)
After creating a cold backup copy job, backups for the selected assets are copied to the target when the backup copy job runs. You can choose to copy the last backups or backups within a specified date range.
After creating a hot backup copy job, subsequent backups for the selected assets are copied to the target as backups complete.
For cold backup copies, incrementals are not copied directly. Instead, incremental backups are synthesized into differential backups for all assets included in a scheduled backup copy job. These differentials are then copied to the cold backup copy media.
To ensure successful backup copies, make sure the following reserved directory is available on the backup appliance: /mnt/archive/tmp.

Selecting assets for backup copy

When creating a backup copy job, you first select the assets whose backups you want to copy. Any physical machine, virtual machine, or application is an asset. The Create Backup Copy Job dialog displays assets in an inventory tree where:

Each physical (agent-based) asset and virtual host displays as a top-level node under its backup appliance.

For Windows assets that are eligible for image-level backups, an image-level sub-node displays. Select the primary node to copy file-level backups. Select the image-level sub-node to copy image-level backups.

Each application displays as a sub-node under its physical host asset.

Each VM displays as a sub-node under its virtual host asset.

Click to select one or more assets in the inventory tree. The assets you select display in Job Inventory Settings.

Create the backup copy job

Backup copy job options and settings vary by target type. General steps for creating hot and cold backup copy jobs are given in the procedures below. For details on the settings and options that apply to your target type, see the applicable procedure in Creating backup copy jobs in the Administrator Guide for Recovery Series, Recovery MAX, and Unitrends Backup.

To create a hot backup copy job
To create a cold backup copy job