Long-term retention questions and concerns (10 years)

[merku]

Hello guys,
I have a request to satisfy, I need to protect some directories inside a VM server for 10 years.
I have to protect these directories everyday backups for 10 years.
How can I translate this request on Veeam?

I currently have two scheduled backup jobs for the server in question:

1) A VM job snapshot that saves the machine every day and holds 365 versions (backup to SOBR and download to Object Storage of versions older than 7 days)

2) A job that saves, with agent, the 2 directories that I will have to keep for 10 years. The current schedule runs every day and holds 730 versions

All backups are on disk and downloaded to object storage (those older than 7 days)

Any help and ideas are welcome

[Egor Yakovlev]

Greetings.

That is a perfect use case for NAS Backup - you can backup those folders using \\computername\drive$\folder\ as a source, and set "Keep previous file versions for 10 years" with Archival Repository in Object storage. More info can be found here.

/Cheers!

[merku]

Thanks Egor,
All really clear.
Is this a new feature in Veeam 10? I think I will have to update.
In your opinion, how can I protect previously completed backups for 10 years? I have 365 versions to protect for 10 years.

[Egor Yakovlev]

Yes, NAS Backup is a new feature introduced with v10!
Since built-in Backup Job retention engine is not 10 years wide to automatically handle retention, I would say best way would be a File2Tape or manual files offload to cloud storage + some sort of notification\script to delete said data in 10 years.
/Thanks!

[merku]

I've updated veeam to v10, but I've see into this document I cannot use an object storage already use into a scaleout.
I've a question.... can I create a new bucket on same object storage, define a new object storage on Veeam to point to this bucket and after use it as archival repository?

Thanks a lot

[veremin]

Correct, add a new bucket on the same object storage as object storage repository and select it as archive repository in the NAS backup job settings. Thanks!

[merku]

All works like a charm.... very good
Thanks all