To much restore points

[grzegorz]

I have a backup job configured that includes several virtual machines, with a retention policy set to 14 days and "Keep certain full" set to 1 monthly. However, when I check Backup > Disk, I see over 155 restore points. Job have enabled synthetic full-s.


Why this is happening?
Why are there so many of them?
What could be the cause?

[chrisflyckelen]

Hey everyone,
In most cases, you’ll notice more restore points on disk than what’s configured in your job settings. This happens because VBR only deletes restore points once a full backup chain of 14 restore points is completed. As a result, there can be more than 14 restore points present at any given time.

Additionally, VBR creates a separate backup chain for each VM, which increases the number of files stored in the backup repository.

Check out this article on helpcenter: https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... ml?ver=120

Hope this helps!

Best regards,
Christian

[tommy.oshea]

Check the backup log on days when the synthetic full is supposed to run. Is that process failing? Is there enough space on the target repository for the job to create a synthetic full? If not, it can never get rid of the old restore point as they are all dependent on the prior full and incremental files.