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Long-term data archiving with Veeam

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Hello together,

I am thinking about long term data archiving with veeam.
I've got a daily backup job of my VMs with a retention policy of 7 (more is not possible)

I am trying to build up a backup copy job in order to get a long term archiving - but was is the best practice.

I'd like to have a weeckly backup every friday (4 times)
and a monthly backup on the last sunday (12 times)

Besides the veeam job I am doing backup to tape every day with backup exec but I'd like to have a copy of my veeam job for fast recovery.

hope the goal is clear.

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Re: Long-term data archiving with Veeam

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- Add a backup copy job
- Copy every: 7
- Restore points to keep: 4
- Enable "keep the following restore points for archival purposes"
- Monthly: 12

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Re: Long-term data archiving with Veeam

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Hello Dennis,
ditro wrote:I am trying to build up a backup copy job in order to get a long term archiving - but was is the best practice.
Yes, using a backup copy job to duplicate backups is considered as a part of the best practices.
ditro wrote:Besides the veeam job I am doing backup to tape every day with backup exec but I'd like to have a copy of my veeam job for fast recovery.
Why not to use VBR for to-tape backups?
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Re: Long-term data archiving with Veeam

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v.Eremin wrote:- Add a backup copy job
- Copy every: 7
- Restore points to keep: 4
- Enable "keep the following restore points for archival purposes"
- Monthly: 12
Thanks.
Hi Vladimir,
how do you make sure the Copy Job is run on saturday, so it keeps fridays restore point?

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If I were you, I would use backup window option and explicitly enable the desired period (backup copy settings -> schedule). Thanks.
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Re: Long-term data archiving with Veeam

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Or just create it on Friday, set the sync interval start time after the regular backup copy job starts, and enable forward lookup. Backup copy job will monitor when new restore point appears to start copying it right away.
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[MERGED] Solution for long duration file retention

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Hi,

I have a data domain and I want to use Veeam for my VM backups exclusively. A requirement is that we be able to keep certain files that are in one or two folders on a couple VMs (RHEL7) for up to 15 years because of certain government SLAs in place. What sort of solutions are other people using for similar situations?
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Re: Solution for long duration file retention

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Hi jpl,
There are several great ways to achieve it. Please answer some questions for better understanding.
What`s the approximate size of VMs to backup? How often are you going to make backups(weekly/monthly etc.)? Should those files be full backups or increments are also fine?
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Right now we do synthetic full on Sunday and incremental rest of week. The VM is about 110gb but the files/folder on that VM is only 12gb partially compressed logs (eg: not all the logs were compressed when I took the reading so it is actually probably quite a bit smaller than this)
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Re: Long-term data archiving with Veeam

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The recommended approach is to keep smaller chain of short-term backups on the local repository for the best RTO and use backup copy job with GFS retention policy to copy restore points offsite.
You can set the retention to keep desired number of weekly/monthly/quarterly/yearly backups with no backup file duplication.
You can also review the thread above for more info. Thanks!
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