[Feature Request] Suppress versioning warning

[corillian]

Hi,

After upgrading to version 8.4, every single one of our customer's SharePoint, OneDrive and Teams jobs are reporting the following warning:

"Consider limiting protection to the latest file versions to reduce job traffic, duration, and the likelihood of throttling errors. For more details, see KB4816."

Restricting backups to only backup the latest version of a file is not desirable for most of our customers, and we do not need to this warning appearing in every job session, as it causing confusion for our customers.

Please provide a method to suppress this warning, thanks.

Veeam Support - Case # 08128734

[Polina]

Hi Matt,

Do you know why your customers are not willing to change these settings? What are they concerned about?

[corillian]

Hi Polina,

Limiting protection to the latest version means that any changes to items between backup runs are not captured. By doing this we would be arbitrarily be removing a currently provided service, for no reason.

[Polina]

The reason is quite valid, in my vision - shorter backup times, better performance, less throttling impact, less storage taken. And with backups running daily, you still have a new file version every day.

[AlexL]

Speaking as a sysadmin and backup engineer for a MSP:
Which is basically the same as backing up a vm (file server) once a day, in that case you would also only have the latest version and one version per day.
I'm all for better performance, and mind you, for the first 30 days you can always use default Microsoft tools, usually faster and simpler than reverting to restores.
And I'd dare say that if you'd need a restore of a file older than 30 days having multiple versions is unlikely a great need.
The issue with versions is that "normal" user data, like a Word of Excel document doesn't have many versions, but there is a lot of program data also on OneDrive, I've seen files with over a hundred versions in a single day, for example a file like index.dat from some random program. You'd probably hardly want that data at all, let alone a zillion versions.
Then again, it was once a feature, you're right about that, theoretically a loss but practically hardly so.

But the original question was for a possibility to suppress a superfluous warning, that I do support, +1 from me.