Backup Logs

[spf62]

Hello all... we hav a new requirement per out internal IT auditor to retain 1 year of Veeam backup logs.

I can't seem to find where to do this or any info on this at all.
Any help is appreciated

thanks

[Vitaliy S.]

Hi Steve,

Here is an existing topic that gives some information about log files retention configuration > Change logfile location?

You may want to adjust max size of the logs to keep, however this does not guarantee that they will be retained for 1 year. If I were you I would redirect log location to some archive folder, set 2 TB (or more, depends on logs current size and the size of your infrastructure you protect) for the max log size, should do the trick.

As an alternative you can schedule a regular file copy job to move all log files to the archive folder.

Hope this helps!

[spf62]

Ok great!! that helps a bunch

[veremin]

You might also want to use something like Robocopy, since in this case only changed files would be transferred to "archive" location. Thanks.

[spf62]

So will an auditor be able to look at these logs and see a years worth of backups?

[Gostev]

Yes, if you take good care of the log archive location