Translate traditional retention to file version retention on file share backup

[iqbal_ghazali]

HI,

We have a EMC Vmax NFS share that used for storing our oracle dump data (rhel 5) and other data that needed to backup. The retention policy needed is to backup Incremental daily and full weekly, also extend retention for full monthly 6 months and full yearly 2 years.

As i see for file share there only file version retention, how can i translate this retention policy?

Or maybe we can backup this share as volume backup?

regards,
Iqbal

[Mildur]

File Shares Backups do not use „FullBackup“ in the traditional sense.
For file Share Backups you configure how long you want to keep File Versions.

If you need to keep a yearly backup for two years, you would to set retention (Keep all file versions for the last) to two years. But then, every File Version will be kept that long.

Another option would be to leverage object storage for old and deleted versions.
You could configure to keep 1 week on the backup Repository and 2 years on the Archive Repository.

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... ml?ver=110

As a second option;
The NFS share could be backed up with Veeam Agent for Linux with a File Level Backup Job. But this could be very slow.