BJ with long GFS retention plus BCJ with shorter GFS retention

[KarmaKuma]

Hello
Never done this as I am currently building my new repos including offshoring to Veeam Vault.

I have one VM that needs:
- 30 daily restore points plus GFS of 12 monthlies for a year and yearlies for 10 years on the primary repo (on-prem S3 compatible).
-30 daily restore points plus GFS of 6 monthlies without any yearlies on Veeam Vault with immutability of 30 days.

Can this be achieved with an "immediate BCJ" that simply has a different GFS config than my BJ? Or will it automatically pull all long term GFS backups that the BJ creates by its GFS config and put them - with retention and immutability - on Veeam Vault?

[david.domask]

Hi KarmaKuma,

Sure this will work as you're expecting.

Backup Copy jobs take data from recent restore points and build a separate backup chain for the Backup Copy job from those points. Backup Copy jobs are _not_ a 1:1 copy of backup files, Backup Copy jobs create a "backup of a backup" with its own retention schedule.

[KarmaKuma]

Thanks for the feedback, after reading the diverse Veeam Docs/KBs with your described behavior as mindset, it aligns, but otherwise - when not sure - some parts leave room to interpret wrongly or not 100% clear.... Altough I would not have a suggestion how to write it more clearly in the Docs. Maybe it's because one has a certain assumption (or traditional thinking) linked to the word "copy"...

[david.domask]

Happy to help KarmaKuma,

And understood regarding clarity -- feel free to click the "Submit Feedback" link on any User Guide page and suggest changes that you feel would improve the clarity of pages. The confusion over "copy" is understandable, but the reality is that Backup Copies _are a copy_ of the same data, simply with their own backup chain / retention.