VeeaMover is a cool new feature available in the next Veeam Backup & Replication v12 that allows to move or copy backups to different locations.
If you need to change the target repository for a Backup Job containing existing backups, a warning message is displayed and the procedure cannot be finalized until the backups have moved to the new repository.
With current versions of Veeam this is a manual, time-consuming operation. Here is where VeeaMover come into play.
Use cases
Common VeeaMover use cases are the following:
- Move backups to different repository
- Copy backups to different repository
- Migrate ReFS to XFS for Hardened Repository
- Migrate NTFS to ReFS
- Re-balance Scale-Out Repository
- Scale-Out Repository extent evacuation
Move backups to a different location
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The target Repository can be changed also in an existing Backup Job.
Move a VM to different Backup Job
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Copy backups to a different location
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Migrate backups from NTFS to ReFS
Another cool capability of VeeaMover is the option to migrate backups from NTFS to ReFS file system and vice versa. A reason you should move from NTFS to ReFS is to take advantage of the Fast Clone technology.
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Migrate ReFS to XFS for Hardened Repository
VeeaMover is also useful to migrate backups from ReFS to XFS for Hardened Repository.
![](https://uploads-eu-west-1.insided.com/veeam-en/attachment/d99f7df7-ca48-45f6-9ac4-00bb3e968863.png)
Moved backups will be immutable for the retention configured in the Hardened Repository.
For additional info, check out this post.