Repository some retention policies

[erbinb]

Hello
We have to support several Sharepoint Online sites, whose information was migrated from onpremises file servers. The policies for backing up the information on the file servers were three different policies, a daily copy with 45-day retention, a weekly copy with 90-day retention, and a monthly copy for 10 years. How can I implement those three retention policies using veeam backup for office 365.

[HannesK]

Hello,
and welcome to the forums.

Retention is configured on repository level with Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365. Snapshot-based retention is what you did in the past. Frequency of backups is defined on backup job level. So you have two options... create one repository with 10 years retention and do backup every day, or you can have three repositories with the different retentions and back up everything 3x.

One repository for 10 years is probably the easiest way. 1:1 of what you did before is not an option here.

Best regards,
Hannes

[erbinb]

OK HannesK, thanks for your reply.

[ejenner]

Do you backup your o365 to a local repository? If so you could use a set of standard B&R jobs to manage your retention and backup the o365 with just your 45 day policy.

[erbinb]

Thanks for your reply,
No, We are using object storage in Azure. We dont have VBR only VBO server in Azure.

[Mike Resseler]

@erbinb

Please note a secondary backup (backup copy) to Azure archive tier is coming in the next version

Cheers
Mike