What is the best way to handle GF-F-S retention schedule in VBO365?

[cfortenbery]

Say we need to have daily 30-day retention backups, one monthly full kept for a year and one annual backup kept for 7 years. What is the best way to handle a grandfather-father-son backup schedule in VBO365?

[Mildur]

This is not possible at the moment with vbo365.

What you can do, take a backup of your vbo365 vm/server with VBR and create the gfs restore point with Backup Job or Backup Copy Job (or Tape Job)


https://vbo.veeambp.com/guide/design/3-2-1.html

[cfortenbery]

Can we do separate jobs for monthly and annual backups (one each, both to separate repositories sset with the required retention and set to snapshot level retention) and just kick it off via powershell with the -Full option?

[Mildur]

I‘m not sure about that.
Creating 2 backups Jobs with „entire organization“ will not work. You can’t create 2 backup jobs with that option and the items will get ignored in the one of the backup jobs because their already processed in the first one:

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/vbo36 ... tml?ver=40

Mind the following:
- You can create only one entire organization backup job per organization.

- Objects that are already processed by any of your backup jobs will be skipped from the entire organization processing list.

- Due to possible access limitations some Sites objects might be unavailable.

- Due to Microsoft limitations, you cannot add the following objects for Microsoft Office 365 organizations with enabled security defaults: Discovery Search Mailboxes, Public Folder Mailboxes and Dynamic Distribution Groups.

- When you add an Organization object type, processing options are applied to all users, groups and sites in the selected organization.

I‘d recommend you todo a backup of the VBO365 Backup server.
This is also the only supported way to have veeam number 1 rule „3-2-1 data copies“

[nielsengelen]

You can create multiple backup jobs if you use the specific objects option and make sure they don’t run at the same time. This way it will read the data twice so you could do a daily job and a full one per month separately.