Hourly Backup and Daily Synthetic Full backup

[shuji]

Hi there,

I am trying to backup a VM hourly with incremental backup, and I set the restore points to 48, so that I can have two days of backups.

I also want to make a synthetic FULL backup everyday, so should I just check all days on the "Create synthetic full backups periodically"? and What time in the day does Veeam perform the synthetic full backups?

Lastly, I also want to make backup copy for off-site backups, so How often should I perform the backup copy job?

Thank you

Ryan

[Shestakov]

Hi Ryan,
the first run in the day will make the synthetic full backup.
Backup copy setting depends on your goals. Do you want to backup copy all the backups?

[shuji]

Hi Shestakov,

I am going to do the backup copy to offsite. I tried to make smallest backup copy, so I assume if I do the backup copy right after every VM hourly backup, the size of the backup copy would be the smallest.

What do you think?

Thank you.
Ryan

[Shestakov]

You are right, but the difference will not be crucial. I would start from data protection policy of your company.
If you schedule the backup copy job to run once a day, it will result in one restore point and if you set it to run after every backup job run, you will have 24 restore points in a day.
Thanks!