Just installed our new Veeam server with with 17TB of storage attached, My first job is to configure a job for our virtual file server this contains 7TB of data. I ran a full last week to test and it was very impressive it completed in around 36 hours with dedup and compression getting it down to a vbk of 5.8TB in size . Soooo the schedule is as follows Synthtic will run for 3 Saturdays of the month and incremental from mon-fri .The weekly synthetic will be sent to tape (tapes will be over written every 3 weeks) .On the last Saturday of the Month I will run a full and this will be sent to tape and kept indefinitely. My two main questions are around the "Transform previous full backup chains into rollbacks" which I want to enable as I only want one full backup on disk at anytime due to the size of it (5.8TB). I want to know can anyone with experience tell me how long this could take for files of this size and will it be a big overhead on the backup server. The incremental should be quiet small the majority of access to the server is of the read variety ...
Second question is around scheduling from what I can see I can only choose to schedule the Synthetic and Fulls on certain days. If I want to run the Synthetic job 3 Saturdays of the Month and the Full on the last what will happen on the last Saturday will the Full or Synthetic run or both? If you guys need anymore details let me know. Serious product by the way its going to make my life a hell of allot easier !
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Thanks in advance
Ian