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sandmax
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Veeam Backup & Replication doesn't remove old Points

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Hi guys!

I have configured "Backup Job" and set "Restore points to keep on disk" = 8.
http://uploads.ru/BAlZ7.png
But I have 9 Points already on disk.
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Why soft doesn't delete old poins?
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Re: Veeam Backup & Replication doesn't remove old Points

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Hi Max and welcome to the community!

Can you share more details about the backup configuration?
It looks like a normal behavior of the backup job using a Forward Incremental backup method with weekly fulls, retention will be applied when you will have second full backup followed by 7 restore points.
I'd recommend you to set simple retention to 7, this way the job will retain 2 full backup files and 12 incremental (possible maximum until retention applied). Thanks!
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Re: Veeam Backup & Replication doesn't remove old Points

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This is my configuration
http://uploads.ru/Gh689.png

I have 2 full backups now and incremental backups.
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Re: Veeam Backup & Replication doesn't remove old Points

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sandmax wrote:I have 2 full backups now and incremental backups.
That's expected behavior.
Retention will remove the first two files on Saturday (tomorrow), when you will have 8 restore points (full backup + 6 increments + newly created full backup = 8 RPs). Thanks!
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