I'm new to Veeam and I'd like to implement my company's backup policies, but I'm not sure how to configure the backup jobs. I'm hoping you can help me.
We have: Server 1-3, Server 4 is the Veeam Server, NAS
Server 1 has very important data, Server 2 and Server 3 have less important data. Storage on the Veeam Server is limited, but we have a NAS for long term storage.
What I need:
Server 1 should have daily backups with a full backup every week. Due to limited storage, I would like to have 1 full and 6 incremental backups on the Veeam Server.
The NAS should hold a copy of the current week's backups, as well as backups of the last 4 weeks. Then I'd like to keep one monthly backup for every past month of the year (12 in total per year), and finally one yearly backup for 2 years.
Backup Job:
- 7 days of retention points
- forward incremental with a synthetic full backup every Saturday
Backup Copy Job:
- pruning - every 7 days
- GFS: 7 daily, 4 weekly, 12 monthly, 2 yearly
Are these settings correct to achieve the policy?
Server 2 should have daily backups with a full backup every week. I would like to have 1 full and 6 incremental backups on the Veeam Server.
The NAS should hold backups of the last 4 weeks, then one backup of the last 3 months and one yearly backup.
Backup Job:
- 7 days of retention points
- forward incremental with a synthetic full backup every Sunday
How should I set the Backup Copy Job?
Server 3 really only needs 1 weekly backup on the Veeam Server, because the data on this one rarely changes.
On the NAS I would like to keep backups of the last three months (1 backup per month), as well as one yearly backup.
How should I set the Backup Job and the Backup Copy job?
Thank you for the detailed description of the desired configuration!
As for Backup copy jobs - yes, you configure the number of weekly/monthly/yearly full backups on "Specify Target Repository and Retention Settings" step when you configure a Backup Copy job.
As for a backup job for Server 3, I'm not sure I got you correctly.
Do you need to run full backup every week or do you mean to run a full backup once and then proceed with weekly incrementals?
Thank you for your reply. About Server 3: If it's possible to do incremental backups weekly, that'd be a good idea, but I don't see how/where to schedule a weekly schedule instead of a daily one.