Retention policy on Veeam Community Edition

[tommaso.chiti]

Hi all,
I have an installation of Veeam B&R Community Edition with a job that backups 5 VM from an Hyper-v Cluster.

I set up the job with 45 retention point, but I just noticed that Veeam si not respecting it cause I actually have more than 200 restore points.

I'm used to work with another installation with an enterprise licence, where the restore point chain actually works fine.

Do you have any suggestions? Is there a limitation on the community edition?

Thank for the support,
Tommaso Chiti

[Andreas Neufert]

Hi Tommaso,

retention processing has nothing to do with the Edition.
Maybe open a support case for it.

Overall check theJob advanced settings. Is it Forever Forward Incremental or is it Synthic Full with Incremental.
What does the Job statistic say? Any issues reported there?

[tommaso.chiti]

Hi Andreas,
thanks for reply, the job is configured with synthetic full every Satuday, but it never did it.

I just checked the statistic and seems to try to make the synthetic, but actually i don't have enough space and the statistics doesn't go that far... I proceed to free swome space, try again and let you know... In any case seems strange since I set it to 45 restore point and at the time he had the space to do it...

[Andreas Neufert]

You can as well disable the synthtic full and let Veeam commit the chain to only 45 restore points. Then perform the SF maybe...

[Mildur]

If you can, format your backup repo disk with refs.
Without refs, synthetic Full will take the entire fullbackup space. With Refs, synthetic Full will only need the space for the changed blocks to create a new Fullbackup File.
https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... ml?ver=110

Is this installation for a customer or internal use?

[tommaso.chiti]

The installation is on a customer and actually on production, I just extended the disk space and rescan the repository and seems to work now.

I'll make some more tests and check if he really deletes the old chains and let you know.

Thanks for support guys.

[Mildur]

No problem.
If you can, always use reFS Fast cloning is one of my favorite features of Veeam.

One thing to add, you are forbidden to use Community Edition to offer services for your customers.
Your customers needs a paid license. It‘s in the license agreement:
https://www.veeam.com/eula.html (Chapter 5.0)

You can register as a Service Provider and use your rental license (in a MSP scenario) or the customer needs to buy a Subscription or Perpetual license.

[tommaso.chiti]

ok I didn't knew that, he is just trying it, but we will tell him to buy a license, thanks.