Disabling long term retention in a cdp job

[FrenchBlue]

Hello,

We have a cdp job for some specific vendor VMs where we would like to completely disable the long-term retention point, the vendor says that snapshots are not supported and could even harm the VMs. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be possible in the cdp job settings, you can't just disable the additional restore points, and need to have at least one. Is there a way to get around this?

Thanks.

[HannesK]

Hello,
long term retention points are not a snapshot. So I'm not sure, what problem you try to solve.

Best regards,
Hannes

[FrenchBlue]

Hello,

I thought a snapshot was made. You can select aap instead for this so it really looks like a regular backup snapshot, but maybe it's not.
We discussed this here: vmware-vsphere-f24/cdp-and-aap-t87613.html

So what does it do exactly for these long term retention points if aap is not selected/used?

Thanks.

[HannesK]

Hello,
if you use Windows, then you can have application consistency by running a VSS snapshot. That requires guest processing to be enabled. That was not mentioned in your post, so I thought this topic is about VMware snapshots. VMware snapshots never happen with CDP.

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... ml?ver=120 explains how it works with delta disks

Best regards,
Hannes

[FrenchBlue]

Hello,

OK thanks, clear, this is only for Windows VMs, and no snapshots at all for all VMs with cdp, so that's fine.