Enhancement Request

[thavener]

Legal Hold/plain ole hold option from either within the Console or Enterprise Manager. Take the last full backup or take a rollback and transform it to a full and then place that backup on hold indefinitely or the ability to setup a schedule for that one backup. That'd make it so much easier than doing a single backup copy job for one backup.

[Vitaliy S.]

Hello Trey,

Thanks for the feature request, however can you please elaborate it a bit more? Why backup copy job does not work in this case as it is exactly doing the backup of required VM and then keeps this file according to the retention policy?

Thank you!

[Gostev]

Actually I fully understand the request and use case, don't worry about elaborating.

Just one question though, have you considered using VeeamZIP for this? VeeamZIP is almost specifically designed for this kind of use cases, when you want to archive the current VM state into a separate file. Note that you can multi-select VMs. and have all of them in the single backup file for convenience.

[thavener]

That's actually what we do now, but was kind of wishing to make it a tad easier(VeeamZip is extremely easy but its another piece you have to remember) . Giving access to this ability from within Enterprise Manage would be great. You could put a backup on Hold, give access to the legal team through EM, and when they are done you/they mark it for Overwrite or Deletion.