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Backup Job Retention Policy - Case-00741872

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HI,

I'm new to Veeam and I need help verifying how the retention policy work in Veeam.

Scenario:
14 restore points in backup job. Active Full every Saturday at 12:00 pm. I only run one backup job every night at 7:00 pm.

1. My first full backup runs on Saturday (1/1/15) at 12:00 pm and then incremental from Sunday to Friday. Since I have an active full every Saturday, will it create a second vbk on the second Saturday (1/8/15)? if so, how will this affect my 14 restore points if the first chain is from the first vbk created on the first Saturday?
2. From my understanding, on 1/15/15, this will be the 15 restore point. Veeam will consolidate the first vib on 1/2/15 to the first vbk on 1/1/15. This will keep me in 14 restore points. Is this correct?
3. if #2 is correct, how does the second active full created on 1/8/15 affect this 14 restore point setting?
4. If I have 14 restore points and only doing 1 backup job every night, is it safe to say that i will have 14 days worth of data to restore from?

Our goal to is to have 14 restore points and have a full backup every Saturday.

Thank you for your help on this.
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Re: Backup Job Retention Policy - Case-00741872

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eantonio wrote:1. My first full backup runs on Saturday (1/1/15) at 12:00 pm and then incremental from Sunday to Friday. Since I have an active full every Saturday, will it create a second vbk on the second Saturday (1/8/15)?
Yes.
eantonio wrote:if so, how will this affect my 14 restore points if the first chain is from the first vbk created on the first Saturday?
The new active full will start backup chain from scratch, leaving previous VBK+6VIBs until they go according to retention. Please review this thread for more details.
eantonio wrote:2. From my understanding, on 1/15/15, this will be the 15 restore point. Veeam will consolidate the first vib on 1/2/15 to the first vbk on 1/1/15. This will keep me in 14 restore points. Is this correct?
With periodic active fulls enabled no merge is performed, you're probably confusing classic forward incremental backup mode with forever forward.
eantonio wrote:4. If I have 14 restore points and only doing 1 backup job every night, is it safe to say that i will have 14 days worth of data to restore from?
Provided all the daily job runs are successful, yes.
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foggy, thank you for the explanation.
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My follow-up question is about the Backup Copy Job retention policy. I set it up as follows:
- 14 restore points to keep
- 6 Weekly Full = every Saturday at noon.
- 12 Monthly Full = Every first Saturday at noon.
- Copy interval is every day at noon
- Data transfer is disabled between 6 am - 6 pm

1. I already have a vbk in the target folder from 1/27/15 (date I created the job) and multiple vibs after that. I was expecting to see another vbk from last Saturday (2/7/15) with 12:00 pm time stamp. When I checked the target folder, I only saw another vib created. It did not create another Weekly Full. Can you please explain how the Weekly Full and Monthly Full work in the Backup Copy Job policy?

Looking forward to hear from you. Thanks.
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Thank you.
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