Initiate Veeam Job cleanup manually

[Louharle]

Hello all - we are running in to an issue where we have a job that runs w/21 days retention and also runs an ACTIVE FULL once a week. This is causing disk space issues for us so I have modified the ACTIVE FULL to be monthly. My question is how can I force the job to clean up the outdated/un-needed ACTIVE FULLS that are still out there and wean it down to one? Thanks in advance. V10 FYI.

[Egor Yakovlev]

Hi Louis,

- Daily Backup with Active Full weekly, Retention 21 = will yield a backup chain of 27 restore points with total of 4 Full backups and 23 increments before retention cleanup happens.
- Daily Backup with Active Full monthly, Retention 21 = will yield a backup chain of 52 restore points with total of 2 Full backups and 50 increments before retention cleanup happens.
I doubt it will be much of savings there by changing Weekly to Monthly full(trading 2 Fulls for cost of 27 additional increments).

In your case I would change backup chain type from classic Forward Incremental to Forever-Forward Incremental by disabling all periodic full backups(Synthetic\Active), ran a manual Active Full to start chain a fresh and enjoyed 1 Full + 20 increments rotated automatically on a daily basis. Is it possible to bear with lack of space for another week until we start clearing older chains?

/Cheers!