I'm trying to convert our current backup which is:
* Retention policy: 48 restore points
* Backup schedule: 12 times a week (twice a day on workdays, once a day on weekends)
* Monthly active full
This gives us roughly 2 months of backups with 2 full backups, im assuming old full is sealed the current full is incremental. At this moment this is 66 restore points.
Each full backup is about 850GB, each incremental ~5GB on average.
Now I would like to convert this to use SOBR with capacity tier and setup it so we have one full backup with 30 days of incrementals locally and on capacity tier, and setup GFS where we have 12 monthly and 1 yearly additional full backups on capacity tier.
Something like this if it helps, assuming this is after 2 years:
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Yearly | <-- 12x Monthly--> | Full | <-- 30x Incremental -->
<-- Performance Tier -->
<-- Capacity Tier -->I thought about setting it up like this:
* Retention policy: 30 days
* Monthly active full
* GFS: 0W 12M 1Y
On SOBR:
* "Copy backups to object storage as soon as they are created": checked
* Move backup files older than: 30 days
Now my questions:
* Is the above setup possible and am I even close with those settings?
* Would the performance tier still have to keep one sealed chain like in our current setup?
* With "Copy backups to object storage as soon as they are created" checked, how does veeam handle the full backup after an incremental is merged? Does it reupload the whole full backup from scratch or is it able to also merge on object storage?
* GFS requires periodic fulls to be setup in the advanced options, im assuming that if you setup monthly active full the weekly GFS setting does nothing?
* I've read that synthetic fulls are better than active fulls but require more IO, so I chose to use active fulls as our NAS is pretty small and handles only about 50-70mbps. Would that be ok or are synthetic fulls still worth it?
Hope I didnt create too big of a wall of text.
Thank you in advance for any help.
