Full backup on a specific day of the month?

[ChuckS42]

I swear this used to work - got one server that gets a Full backup on the 7th of the month for GFS retention purposes (in addition to regular daily backups). I find this isn't working any more - the monthly Full is happening on any day during the first week. Did something change, or am I crazy? How do I make sure I get a Full backup of this server on the 7th of the month?

[ChuckS42]

Thinking more, I seem to remember that Backup Copy Jobs used to allow a Full to be synthesized on a specific day of the month. It seems the change happened with v11.

[DanielJ]

Yes, in v10 you could still select a specific date of the month to create the monthly full. Now in v11 you can only select which weekly full to promote to monthly - the one from the first week or the last. I hope this will be changed in v12 to something more flexible.

[ChuckS42]

Thanks for the confirmation.

Veeam - Feature request, please! Restore the ability to synthesize a Full on a specific day of the month as part of a GFS-enabled backup.

I don't relish the thought of telling the customer that we can't satisfy their backup schedule requirement...

[ChuckS42]

Any chance this will be fixed in v12?

[bg.ranken]

I also would like to know. For compliance reasons we need to be able to retain specific days of the month. First or last weekend of the month for a monthly GFS point doesn't work for us, we need to be able to specify an exact date (like the 2nd).

[foggy]

Not in v12 but we have this request logged for future improvements.