new retention folder in Veeam log directory growing fast

[pirx]

We always had a pretty large Veeam log folder with 150-170GB (log level 4). But it is even more growing now and we have to remove old zipped logs much more often. We are now at ~200GB. I found out that there is a retention folder wich keeps 40GB of logs in the format \Logs\System\Retention\2024-03-30\job-xxx. The job folders contains ~100.000 of unzipped log files with those 40 GB, many files are now older than a year. Our retention time is 10 weeks. The amount of small files that are kept and not deleted or zipped is filling up the disk.

Is this the expected behavior for this retention folder?

[pirx]

PS E:\Veeam\Logs\System\Retention> (gci -Recurse -File -Include *.zip).count
0

PS E:\Veeam\Logs\System\Retention> (gci -Recurse -File -Include *.log).count
102456

A lot file are older than 4 months

PS E:\Veeam\Logs\System\Retention> (gci -Recurse -File -Include *.log | Where CreationTime -lt (Get-Date).AddDays(-120)).count
71806

[pirx]

Bump - before I open a support case, maybe someone can confirm that it is just how it works. Which would be a bit strange...

I see Veeam\Logs\System\CheckpointRemoval still growing with a lot of subdirectories. From the date of the folders and the last written timestamp it looks like obsolete data. Our retention is 10 weeks. But nearly all logfiles are uncompressed, therefor the CheckpointRemoval content is now 45 GB. The overall size of the Veeam log folder is not 230GB - and this is a after tuning log settings with Veeam supper 1-2 years ago.