Always keep backup

[Murshid]

Hi i want to create a one time full backup of my workstation and keep that backup only forever (no retention period)in my NAS , how can we do that ?

[DChiavari]

Hello Murshid, since you mention you want to back up your (physical, I suppose?) workstation, you can easily accomplish this via one of the Veeam Agents (for Windows, for Mac...) based on your workstation's platform).

For Windows: you can create an ad-hoc, standalone full backup.

For Mac: you can create a backup job with no schedule (clearing the "Run the job automatically" checkbox). After running it once manually, since the retention policy is applied based on the number of restore points, the backup will be kept indefinitely (if the job has no schedule, no new restore points will ever be created automatically).

[Murshid]

Hi,

Iam using Veeam Backup & Replication enterprice plus. Is it possible to create standalone full backup from there.

I created a backup of my physical machine to a veeam repository, but in that a retention period is must to click next or take backup.

[DChiavari]

So I guess you're using Veeam Agents managed by Veeam Backup & Replication. Doesn't change much really, as the necessary steps and the available options are basically the same.

Yes, you need to specify a retention, but as I explained before, by choosing a retention based on the number of restore points (and not days), if you do not create new restore points, the existing backup is kept indefinitely.

So you can just create a Policy entering "1" (or any other number, doesn't really matter) as a retention period, make sure schedule is disabled, then perform a backup manually.

[karsten123]

same same for days. makes no difference. latest full is kept indefinitely with default settings

[Murshid]

okay, understood.

thank you

[cgrebing]

Hi,
I just do Veeam ZIP backups for the VMs I want to keep infinite. So these backups are independant from any other backup chain.

Christian

[ITP-Stan]

VeeamZIP is easy for VM's, I do it for quarterly USB disk back-ups independent from the normal jobs and GFS settings.
For Veeam Agents that back-up to B&R, the steps DChiavari describe will work fine.