VB365 quaterly schedule

[karsten123]

Hi,

i have to setup a quarterly backup for Microsoft 365 like GFS in VBR and as it is not possible in the application, my plan is to start the vbojob from the Windows scheduled tasks.

$job = get-vbojob -name „job name“
start-vbojob -job $job -full:$true

Makes that sense or ist this bulls*** and breaks something?

The „quaterly“ should run besides a daily backup to the same repository.

Tia
Karsten

[Mike Resseler]

It will not work indeed I'm afraid. Backup jobs in VB365 are always full and then incremental forever.

[karsten123]

and start-vbojob without -full just to accomplish the quarterly schedule?

[Mike Resseler]

Not really, it will do a full sync meaning it will check things online to see if everything is protected. It will take quite some longer because we will need to check every item separately if it is protected and a valid copy is available on the backup repository.

[karsten123]

Got it. So what are my options for this requirement?
Just increase repository retention?

[karsten123]

Hi Mike,

what are my options?

Tia
Karsten

[Polina]

Hi Karsten,

The requirement you're looking to meet is not applicable to VB365 and the way it stores backups. I'd suggest you to revise the approach and instead, for example, consider backup copies to get an additional copy of data as a safety net.

Thanks!

[karsten123]

Hi Polina,

as the repository is jetdb, my options are:
1. setup the required retention policy via vbr
2. increase the retention of the repository to cover the required snaphots

Am i right?

thanks. Karsten

[Polina]

Yes, looks valid.
And, in case you're interested, you can get some more insights here: https://bp.veeam.com/vb365/guide/design ... h_vbr.html

Thanks!