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Best way to copy Veeam backups to QNAP onto an external hard drive

I'm looking for some confirmation on a few things with Veeam. I have my Veeam backups going to a QNAP NAS and I have a question about backing up to external hard drive. I have plugged in a drive to the QNAP and did a copy paste from the Veeam folder where the backups are to the external drive. This worked fine. Will this external hard drive work if I needed to restore all Veeam info on a new server and is the copy/paste method I'm using (see screenshot on renaming files) the right way to do this or should I change the settings?

Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)

I would not rename the files, copy the repo "as is"

You will then need to Import before you can restore

see here

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/importing_backups.html?ver=110

I would test this procedure before waiting for a disaster to happen.

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Have you ever tried the method of restoring using an external backup?

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I have done a DR scenario from the QNAP but not from external hard drive copy from QNAP.

Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)

Is that assuming you have a Veeam Backup and Replication server already installed with the Repo information?

Looks like you have some testing to do?

Veeam has the ability to copy existing repositories to another location.

If bandwidth allows, go for a Cloud Tier with an S3 destination like BackBlaze or Wasabi.