How "Reverse Incremental Backup" works?

[Tooshy]

Hello, I have a question. Cant understand how "reverse incremental" and "forever forward incremental" working. Example: I have a backup job with 30 restore points, if I using the reverse incremental I have 1 full backup and 29 rev. inc. backups. I want to restore my VM on the state of 29 days ago, but I have a few broken rev.inc backups in the chain, so what happens then, will I lose all of the restore point before the broken one? Same to forever forward.
Thank you.

[Gostev]

Hello, your understanding is correct. You will lose all dependent restore points in the same incremental chain. I recommend you also check out the User Guide for extensive information on backup modes, they are actually very well explained there. Thanks!

[dellock6]

This knowledge base article also has animations to better explain how reverse incremental backup and retention works, it may be helpful:

https://www.veeam.com/kb1933

Luca