Help me understand immutability settings

[Common]

I have a backup job that runs daily, retention is set to 5 restore points runs once daily, Synthetic fulls run Weekly. A backup copy job copies the files immediately to an S3 bucket and retention is set to 5 restore points runs once daily. The Object Storage repository is set for an immutability of 1 day. I have also read about block retention on S3 is 30 days.

What is my immutability? Copy job (5 days)+ Immutability set to 1 day + block retention of 30 = 36days? Is there somewhere in the Veeam console that shows what the immutability actually is?

Case # 07481588

Thanks,

[david.domask]

Hi Common, welcome to the forums.

Have you checked our User Guide page on Object Storage immutability?

Immutability is best understood here as defining how big of a window you want to have to be able to respond to malicious actions. Check the examples on the above link as I think they explain it pretty clearly, for example, the first simple example supposes:

30 day retention
3 days immutability
On the 2nd day of a given month, a malicious actor changes the retention from 30 to 1.

In this scenario, you have 3 days to restore the state of the backups to before the malicious action.

> Is there somewhere in the Veeam console that shows what the immutability actually is?

Not directly at this time, but I would advise consider thinking about immutability as the User Guide article I linked describes it -- rather than focusing on specific backup files, consider immutability in how long you have to react to a malicious action.