Issue : Veeam backup tape incremental

[Christophe_Sef]

Re-Good morning,

my first ticket had to be deleted because I don't have a case ID.
Here is my other problem because we have a veeam account and active licence but cannot open a case because we are not a support administrator.

Can I still get some help while I fix my other problem ?

I come to you for help with veeam backups.
I am a beginner user and haven't had any specific training on Veeam.

Moreover I am French and my google friend help me for the translation

Veeam 11 Build: 11.0.1.1261 P20230227

my process is as follows:

9 vmware backup jobs chained together with Incremental for Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday and Full on Saturday

after, I have the backups on tapes

Job_01 for daily Incremental (*.vib) - Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Job_02 for Full weeklies (*.vbk) - Saturday/Sunday
Job_03 for Full monthly (*.vbk) - Saturday/Sunday
job_04 for Full annuals (*.vbk) - Saturday/Sunday

My problem is that on the Job_01 he saves me from Full and since it's during the week it takes too much time

My question how to save only the Incremental (Vib) on the job_01

thank you for the help

[Mildur]

Hello Christophe

Welcome to the forum.
Your first post here was not deleted. Just not approved yet. I will delete it now, because it's about the same topic.

Here is my other problem because we have a veeam account and active licence but cannot open a case because we are not a support administrator.

Please ask your primary license admin to make you a support administrator. Using the forum for technical issues is not allowed per our forum rules. You must be able to open support tickets.

9 vmware backup jobs chained together

Chaining backup jobs is not recommended. If one job is disabled or failed, the other ones will not run.
Schedule all of them to the same time and let our task scheduler take care of starting the jobs.

My question how to save only the Incremental (Vib) on the job_01

If the last backup of this job was a full backup (from Saturday), the tape from Monday will write a full backup to the tape. I suggest to write the tape for Job_01 also on Saturday/Sunday.
- Use a Backup To Tape job with a GFS media Pool for Job_01.
- Use a second Backup To Tape job with a GFS media Pool (dailies disabled) for Job_02 till Job_04.

Best,
Fabian

[Christophe_Sef]

Hi Fabien,

thank you for answer.

I will go to see this.

Yet Thank you.
Regards,
Christophe

[Christophe_Sef]

Re-Hi,

I started looking for the GFS backup.
First problem for my Job 1 I can't just do daily backup I have to check the Weekly.

ok, maybe I expressed myself badly.

We had 4 Media Pool in veeam.
1 Daily Pool Retention 14 Days for Job_01
1 Pool weekly Retention 4 Weekend for Job_02
1 Monthly Pool Retention 36 Months for Job_03
1 Annual Pool Retention 120 Months for Job_04

I have to do a daily incremental backup from Monday to Friday and after on the weekend of FULL backups but on the other hand:

1 First weekend of the month
1 Every weekend
1 first weekend of each year
which means that I have up to 3 Full Backups on tape to do ....

I feel like I'm going to ask for Veeam training it won't be useless....

I continue to study GFS.

Thank you.
Christophe