RDX Repository Restore Points

[dtwiley]

We've just implemented an RDX repository for a customer (on their request!).
I can't work out if I have a bug or this is how it's supposed to work.

Basically, the list of restore points in Home\Backups\Disk\Daily Backup, only shows the restore points from the most recent drive used and none of the others.

For a 5 day rotation with 2 backups on each drive, I'd expect to see a total of 10 restore points, but i'm seeing just 2, the ones on the most recently used drive.
I can see that I can "import" backups from older drives and that works but not what I'd expect.

Is this how it's supposed to work?

Also, I assume it cannot do incrementals on a daily drive as the CBT will have been lost when the previous backup ran to a different drive. So it's doing a full each time which is fine and I assume it'll obey the restore point count and remove older backups before it fills up the disk?

[Andreas Neufert]

Hello Dave,
can you please check this KB
https://www.veeam.com/kb4048
and follow all links there to documentation about the rotated drives and the available reg keys for the force deletes.

In short, we "see" only the last backup chain, because we wrote over the place where the previous chain was stored. You can continue same media and it will create incremental backups. If you change the media we will create a new backup chain on it. See the reg key link in the KB to force delete existing backups.

What you see in the backups are only the actual chain.
Older backups can be imported and restored as well (even from a fresh installed backup server). Put the media in and right click rescan on the repository. If this is not working (as documentation indicates), then use the "import" button at the top menu for it.

[dtwiley]

That article is quite old, i'd already reviewed this one stating that from v12 the reg key wasn't required
https://www.veeam.com/kb1154

The question is primarily about the restore points stored in the database, available for selection during a restore operation. It sounds like you're confirming you only keep the last backup chain.
This is quite strange, even backup products like Backup Exec will keep the available restore points across previous rotated media, rather than an import being needed.