Hello, we are new to veeam and would like to setup the following backup strategy:
hourly backups from 7:00 to 19:00 (keep it only one day)
daily backups at e.g. 23:00 (keep it for 8 weeks)
To save space on the backup repository it would be nice if there is only one full backup (e.g. the first daily backup) and the others (daily and hourly) are only incrementals.
How could this be done? If there is a better way, we are happy to receive suggestions.
Our Veeam test environment:
Backup Target: Windows Server 2019
Veeam Backup Server on Windows 2019 only for Management not for storing backups
Backup Repository on Ubuntu 20.04 with ext4
Backup Repository for Backup Copy on Ubuntu 20.04 with ext4 (in production this server is remote)
Switch to V11 first (that's possible via support right now). You need hourly backup until 23:00 if you want the daily at 23:00. Or you just take the 19:00 backup as daily.
and the others (daily and hourly) are only incrementals.
I have setup hourly backup until 23:00 with rentention policy 7 days for testing. Is there a setting to keep only the last day of hourly backups and the other remaining to keep only incremental daily? I think that would be too much incremental backups (storage size and restore time), because for 8 weeks that would be around 400 incremental hourly backups (10 hourly/day in production state).
think that would be too much incremental backups (storage size and restore time)
restore time is irrelevant. Veeam uses disk as storage media with random access. It's not like tape...
You only keep the increments during the week (for the 7 days you configured). Once you have weekly GFS points, the unnecessary increments will be deleted (okay, that's more than a week, because increments depend on each other). So it's much less than the 400.
