Full backup compact and defrag

[kaboomza]

Hi guys, had a question regarding this, if I schedule defrag and compact, how would I know its actually running and what type of schedule does it follow if you select specific days, is there a time associated with it ?

[kaboomza]

Sorry and an additional question, would a synthetic full assist in keeping the full backup file compact and optimal with regards to size?

[foggy]

Hi Jaques, a compact operation is performed after applying retention at the end of a successful job cycle performed on the specified day, so you will see it running as a part of the regular job session. Periodic synthetic fulls also prevent backup file fragmentation.

[Mildur]

Defrag and compact will not be used, if you have configured active or synthentic fulls.
It needs to be a forever forward incremental chain or reverse incremental chain.
You can choose the day on this page in the backup job:
https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... ml?ver=110

Synthentic Full on a refs or xfs reflink enabled volume will allow you to use FASTClone. You will get spaceless synthentic fulls with that configuration:
https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... ml?ver=110