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Hello everyone, I setup a backup copy job that backs up to a remote repository 4 vms.
I noticed the space being eaten fast. After looking at the repository from the windows explorer I saw that I had almost for every day an incremental and a full.
All I want is a full and forever incremental but I don't see an option for this.
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Hello Said,
By design it should work just like you want to.
Are all those full backups created by that backup copy job?

By the way, backup copy job doesn`t backup, but just copies existing restore points.
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Hi bensaida,
are you using active full backup on your backup job ?
backup copy does copy only your backup files nothing else.
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after looking at the repository from the windows explorer I saw that I had almost for every day an incremental and a full.
Can you tell us what retention settings does the backup copy job have? Is GFS enabled?
are you using active full backup on your backup job ?
It shouldn't matter, as backup copy job is using forever incremental mode.
backup copy does copy only your backup files nothing else.
Backup copy job doesn't t copy backup chain as a whole, but rather synthetically creates required restore points in "target" location from VM data in source backup repositories.

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Shestakov wrote: Are all those full backups created by that backup copy job?
Yes
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jamerson wrote:Hi bensaida,
are you using active full backup on your backup job ?
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No Just Incremental.
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v.Eremin wrote: Can you tell us what retention settings does the backup copy job have? Is GFS enabled? .
Job: copy every day
Restore points keep 5
Restore points for archival purposes: 4 weekly backups/14 monthly.

Where can I confirm if GFS is enabled?
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bensaida wrote:Restore points for archival purposes: 4 weekly backups/14 monthly.
This is GFS retention.

Basically, with these settings you should have a regular backup chain consisting of an initial full (VBK) and four subsequent increments (VIB) and weekly/monthly restore points as separate fulls. If you observe something different, feel free to contact support for a closer look at what happens.
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I think I understand now what is going on. Your explanation is very clear. Thank you!
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You can get some further explanation in the corresponding user guide section.
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