Question on Copy Jobs

[vlb]

Hi Guys

So i have a quick (hopefuly) question on backup copy jobs)

I inherited this setup so please be kind


we do monday to thurdsay incrimentals over mutliple jobs then on a friday/saturday we do fulls for everything.




as you can see we set configure for secondary destination

This is how my copy jobs are setup





my understanding is that becaue the retention policy is 12 restore points hypothetically January would be a VBK and the next 11 months would be vibs is that correct?

What i would like my copy job to do is copy/perform an active full every month of the year, I would also like to tie up the end of the month backup active full with the start of the copy job active full so that i know that when my backup job has just done an active full my copy job is grabbing that file to store for monthles

I know i can leverage scripts to run at the end of jobs and use powershell to start copy jobs however there doesnt seem to be a way to make copy jobs truly manual (as in only fire when i run my powershell script.)

So If i set my copy job retention period to 2 (lowest possible) then hypothetically i would get an active full in January but an incremental in February?

I am keen to leverage powershell as much as i can to minimise the admin overhead of tying all this up.

I have been reading this thread veeam-backup-replication-f2/backup-copy ... 40667.html for reference but although it touches on certain points it doesnt quite answer the questions i have.

Many thank and have a nice weekend

[PetrM]

Hello Martyn,

I recommend to read this section of our help center, in particular the page about GFS cycles.

Answering your questions:

my understanding is that becaue the retention policy is 12 restore points hypothetically January would be a VBK and the next 11 months would be vibs is that correct?

No, it's not correct. You will have monthly .vbk-s that will be created every month on the first day of the selected week. The incremental .vib files will be created according to the following rule which is described here:

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Time of restore point creation >= current time – backup copy interval

I would also like to tie up the end of the month backup active full with the start of the copy job active full

It's not a trivial task as backup copy job does not simply copy backup files but transfers actual state of data to the secondary storage. Also, I don't think you should synchronize primary job full backups and secondary job full backups. What's the purpose to do it? The main goal of backup copy job is to allow us to follow 3-2-1 rule and there is no point to think about data storing format whether it is .vbk or .vib as long as the main goal is achieved.

So If i set my copy job retention period to 2 (lowest possible) then hypothetically i would get an active full in January but an incremental in February?

No, you will have full backups on January and February plus some increments in between.

Thanks!

[vlb]

thanks , i will do some further reading

thank you