When are full backups made?

[MahaGonii]

Hello,

when the backup job is created, a Full Backup is created the first time.
What if I want to keep 7 days. Will a Full Backup be created automatically after this period?
Automatic creation of Full Backups is disabled by default.

Best greetings

[Mildur]

There will be only the first time, that veeam will take a full backup of your environment with this configuration. Going forward, every day will be only a incremental backup of your data. This is called "Forever Incremental" configuration.

After 7 days, your oldest full backup file will be merged with your oldest incremental file. Together, they are the new fullbackup file.
After that, this merge will happen every day after your incremental backup. The full backup will get merged with the oldest incremental to form the new fullbackup file.


https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... ml?ver=100

[wishr]

Hi Maha,

You may also instruct VBR to create synthetic or active full backups periodically if needed.

Thanks

[Natalia Lupacheva]

Hi Maha,

Just to add - if you are looking for the best way to configure scheduling and retention for your case, take a look at this animated KB. It is a very useful summary of the active/synthetic full backup descriptions and also explains how retention policy works.
Hope it helps.

Thanks!

[MahaGonii]

Thanks, that helped a lot.

Have a great Day