Feature request: incremental backup (VBK and VRB)

[m.novelli]

I have many customers that love Veeam Backup and would like to put on tape the VBK and VRB files for DR

Each of them is complaining that have to waste a lot of tape space to save each day a big VBK file. Is it possible to have, in addition to Reverse Incremental Backups, the standard and classic Incremental Backups?

So, for instance:

Saturday --> Full Veeam Backup on VBK file and copy on tape
Sunday --> Incremental Veeam Backup and copy on tape
Monday --> Incremental Veeam Backup and copy on tape
Tuesday --> Incremental Veeam Backup and copy on tape
...

In this way will be possible to save a lot of space on tapes

Thanks

Marco

[Gostev]

Hello Marco, this feature is a part of v5.

Tom first asked for this feature 1 year ago sharp. Here is the original feature request and "main" discussion topic:
Aligning your Corporate Backup Policy with Veeam

There are a few more topics about this too, just search for "forward incremental" or "forward increments" to find those.

Thanks!

[tsightler]

This feature should be available in Veeam Backup and Replication 5, scheduled for release later this year (I hope).

Disclaimer: I'm not a Veeam employee. Anything I say regarding future product features can be wrong...and likely is!! (But in this case I'm pretty sure I'm right )

[Gostev]

And here is the original inventor himself, just 2 minutes late
Release is scheduled for late Q3, and I am pretty confident that we will make it.