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Feature Request - Remove restore points

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Hello,

We backup to a volume that is very limited in space and when a job fails, it has to clean itself up (remove old restore points) and then retry the job.

I would like to request a feature that allows Veeam to remove the past restore points on a VM by VM basis instead of at the end or failure of the job.

Thanks in advance!
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Re: Feature Request - Remove restore points

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Why don't you want to adjust the retention so that the job doesn't fail at all?

Btw, don't you use built-in space notifications that allow to track free space on the repository? To say nothing of Veeam ONE that allows to monitor current space consumption and estimate the date when you run out of free space on repository...
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Re: Feature Request - Remove restore points

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We are only keeping one copy of the VM and there's over 100GB free on the volume, but because the job does not reclaim the space until after the job completes or fails, we run out of space.... hence the request to delete the old restore points after it finishes backing up a VM.

I have resorted to breaking out the job into multiple backup jobs (each with a subset of the total number of VMs), but I would prefer to have all VMs in one backup job.
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Re: Feature Request - Remove restore points

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Retention policy is applied at the end of the backup job. In this case you always have the specified amount of good restore points available. Thanks for sharing your use case!
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Re: Feature Request - Remove restore points

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You could run a pre-job script that cleans up the repository prior running the job.
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