Veeam 8 upgrade, change job to incremental forever

[ober72]

Hi Folks,

I have upgraded a few servers to Veeam 8. In Veeam 7 the jobs were set to use synthetic backups with a once a week transform into rollbacks in order to conserve space. If I remove the once a week synthetic and transform check marks will these jobs now convert automatically to the new Veeam 8 standard where the last vib in retention is merged into the orignal vbk?

Thanks

[Gostev]

Hi, Geoff. Yes, they will convert as the retention processing continues. Thanks!

[Giacomo_N]

Hi, Geoff. Yes, they will convert as the retention processing continues. Thanks!

Hi Gostev, are you sure?
I'm in the same boat of Geof, i want to try new forever-incremental instead the classic forward incremental, yesterday evening i've unchecks the marks for create the weekly full.
Now i've check the result and i can see only a new .vib without modification to the original last week .vbk, i've attach a screenshot..

[dellock6]

Maybe you didn't reached your retention period yet? What's the setup for this value?

[poulpreben]

For anyone interested, here is a PowerShell script that will change all existing Backup Jobs to using the new forward incremental forever.

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# Get all backup jobs
$jobs = Get-VBRJob | Where-Object { $_.IsBackup -eq $true }

foreach ($job in $jobs) {
    # Read current job settings
    $options = $job.GetOptions()

    # Select forward incremental
    $options.BackupTargetOptions.Algorithm = "Increment"

    # Disable synthetic fulls
    $options.BackupTargetOptions.TransformFullToSyntethic = $false
    # Disable transform previous chain into rollbacks
    $options.BackupTargetOptions.TransformIncrementsToSyntethic = $false
    # Disable active fulls
    $options.BackupStorageOptions.EnableFullBackup = $false

    # Apply new settings
    # UNCOMMENT THE FOLLOWING LINE TO ACTUALLY APPLY SETTINGS
    # $options = Set-VBRJobOptions -Job $job -Options $options

    Write-Host "Changed settings for" $job.Name
}

[Giacomo_N]

Maybe you didn't reached your retention period yet? What's the setup for this value?

Hi Luca, probably i missed the "core concept" of the new backup mode, is it the .vbk change only after the retention period reached??
If yes, i will reach the retention period in 60 days, but in that scenario, is it safe to keep 1 .vbk with that long chain?

Thank you in advance

[veremin]

Hi Luca, probably i missed the "core concept" of the new backup mode, is it the .vbk change only after the retention period reached??

Yes.

If yes, i will reach the retention period in 60 days, but in that scenario, is it safe to keep 1 .vbk with that long chain?

Yes, as long as, you follow the best practices.

Thanks.