Retention period when Server is not 24x7

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1. My B&R server at home is shutdown most of the time.
Will the option "Keep backups for: x days" still work if i only make incremental backups in that period?
Does it transform incremental to synthetic full by itself and when?

2. I found that some Settings like "Create synthetic full backups periodically" or "Perform backup files health check" cannot be run manually and do run only on specific days.
What happens if:
- those options are checked and the server is powered on after that time? Will it run those tasks delayed or skip them?
- backup server is shutdown during those tasks? (This can happen also on 24x7 server if its rebooted for maintenance)

[david.domask]

Hi xrated,

1. Retention runs as both part of jobs and also as a standalone service job, Background Retention. The server must be running in order for this to be applied, but you can also manually start Background Retention job, and it will check for backups that should have retention applied and perform it.

2. Synthetic Full (and Active Full) days are a schedule that tells the job "if today is the scheduled day, do an Active/Synthetic Full instead of an incremental backup". Thus if the server is not active on the scheduled days, these operations will not be performed. Health Check works the same way, but you can also perform scheduled backup integrity checks with SureBackup jobs

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It looks like health checks are running 18:00 when scheduled, not sure.

Retention is started 00:30
https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... ml?ver=120

Is it possible to manually start it by using:
https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... ml?ver=120

[david.domask]

Correct, that cmdlet Apply-VBRIndependentRetention will start the background retention manually when run.

Health Check indeed has its own schedule to avoid long-running jobs and to give more control over when the HealthCheck works; the main idea is to allow you to set a schedule for the HealthCheck outside of normal backups to manage the workload on the repository (and mount server) better.