Running an Unscheduled Offsite Backup
After initializing the VPG, Zerto Virtual Replication periodically checks that the schedule to run an offsite backup - either daily or weekly - has not passed. At the scheduled backup time, the offsite backup is run and the offsite backup file stored in the specified repository.
To run an unscheduled offsite backup:
1. In the Zerto User Interface, click the VPGs or VMs tabs and select one or more VPGs to be backed up.
Note: You can also start from the OFFSITE BACKUP tab.
2. Click MORE > Run Backup.
Note: If the VPG was previously viewed, and the tab for this VPG is still displayed, you can access the details by selecting the tab.
3. Click OK.
The offsite backup starts. You can monitor the progress in the Offsite Backup tab and the tasks pane. During the backup job you cannot perform any other operation on the VPG without first aborting the job. You can start a live failover and you are then prompted to abort the job.
Scheduled backup runs for the VPG are skipped until the unscheduled run ends.
If the job runs out of the configured backup window, the virtual machines that are already stored in the repository are kept but remaining virtual machines in the VPG are not backed up. The job is reported as a partial backup.