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Implement 3-2-1 rule

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Hi,

A customer wants to implement the 3-2-1 backup rule with Veeam B&R v12.

The customer has 2 Storage systems.
One storage system has SSD and should act as the first Veeam Backup repository (60 days retention), from which failed VM's and SureBackup jobs will be started.
The second storage system has plenty of space and should act as the Archiv (10 years retention).
Microsoft Azure Blob should be used for the offsite copy (7 day retention).

The backup jobs will use the first storage system with the SSD's.
When i create a backup copy job to copy the backups from the first storage system to the second one, i can only configure a retention policy with a maximum of 999 days.

How can the Archiv be configured with a retention of 10 years ?


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Re: Implement 3-2-1 rule

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Hi Thomas

You can configure to keep weekly, monthly or yearly backups for a longer time. But I understand you want to keep daily backups for 3650 days? Is it mandatory by your business requirements to go back day by day for 10 years? For every system?
If you use PowerShell to configure the job, you can configure a maximum of 9999 days. But I recommend against it. Using GFS backups is easier to manage and a lot less files.

If you only need to archive backups of your file server, maybe consider to use File share backup jobs. File share backup jobs allows you to keep multiple versions of protected files.

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$jobs = Get-VBRJob -name <JOBNAME>
$options = Get-VBRJobOptions -Job $job
$options.BackupStorageOptions.RetainDaysToKeep = 3650
Set-VBRJobOptions -Job $jobs -Options $options
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Fabian
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Re: Implement 3-2-1 rule

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Hi,

Thank you for your tip.

How can i make sure with GFS, that really every file from the last 10 years resides within the backups?
What GFS retention options would you suggest?

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Re: Implement 3-2-1 rule

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GFS restore points are snapshots of an exact state of the VM. Only files which were in the VM at the time when the backup was taken are in a GFS restore point. If you never delete a file, it will be in the GFS restore point. If you change the files multiple times over a week or month, only the latest version will be protected by a VM backup job. In my understanding, you need to keep all file versions for 10 years. Not just the "latest version which existed when the GFS restore point was taken".
VM backups doesn't look as a right solution for this requirement.

I recommend to check out file share backup jobs. It allows you to keep all file versions for a specified amount of time. It also gives you the better opportunity to search through different file versions.
But still, 10 years is a long time. Make sure to use the right disk storage. It should be reliable to keep backups without corruption for such a long time. Maybe writing a tape on a yearly interval to have an additional copy of the archive should be considered too.

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