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Feature Request - Reversed Incremental Backup

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Hello,

I would like to have the same "Reversed Incremental Backup" feature as in Veeam Backup & Replication.
This is very usefull to backup to tape only the last backup on one file.

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Hi thipau,
Thank you. I am interested what Endpoints are you going to push to tape?
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Hello,

I would only copy the last backup (full if reversed incremental) to tape. I always keep tapes outside of office.
I keep the restore points to disk at the office.
This is how I work with Veeam Backup & Restore.
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Re: Feature Request - Reversed Incremental Backup

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Since B&R v8 already support synthesized fulls to tape from any type of backup chain. I wonder if we simply extend that functionality to endpoint backups instead, Dima?
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Yup. The existing tape functionality is going to cover the Endpoint backups, so you will be able to put the Endpoint’s full backup to tape on the specified day.
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Reverse Incremental Backup as synthetic one full last backup - I found useful. I will vote for it, too :)
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Can anyone confirm this is going to be added? (the reversed incremental feature?) any ETA?
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Hi Christian, this is not going to be available in the 1st version, however we will consider adding this feature in the next updates.
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Hi Vialiy,

Thanks for your response; just another vote that Reverse Incremental would be a great feature to add to the product.

Kind Regards.
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Thanks for the feedback. Do you need this functionality because you offload these backups somewhere else?
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As the functunality is today.. between endpoint and VBR.. what would be the best way to make sure you get atleast one valid full-backup copied to tape each week?

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Re: Feature Request - Reversed Incremental Backup

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If you're using both Veeam B&R and Veeam Endpoint Backup, then you can schedule a backup copy job (use Endpoint backups as a source) and create a single VBK file which will be synthesized from the stored backup chain. After that you should be able to send this backup to tape.
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Re: Feature Request - Reversed Incremental Backup

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Agreed, this would be nice to have.
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I also agree that this feature would be a nice improvement for the backup op endpoints to tape.
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when this option is gooing to be available for us ?
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Hi Avi, cannot say any dates, as we do not comment on the ETAs for the feature requests.
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Re: Feature Request - Reversed Incremental Backup

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I would like to add the reverse incremental feature added to the Veeam agent for Windows.
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Dima P. wrote: Jan 06, 2015 11:07 pm Yup. The existing tape functionality is going to cover the Endpoint backups, so you will be able to put the Endpoint’s full backup to tape on the specified day.
Does Virtual Full Backup now work with Agent backups?
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Regnor,

Are you referring to Virtual Backup for backup to tape jobs? Thanks!
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Hi Dima, yes exactly.
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Yup, that's fully supported last version of Veeam B&R. If I am not mistaken it was supported since the day one of the integration with agent backups :wink:
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Re: Feature Request - Reversed Incremental Backup

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Great :)
I didn't want to try it out and also never had a case where I needed those for Agent backups.
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