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Veeam keeping to many restore points

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Hi,

One of my backup jobs is filling the disk with restorepoints. The retention policy is set to keep 10 restorepoints on disk, as of today there are 32 restorepoints.
Every time I start the job it terminates due to lack of disk space. I'm using Incremental backup. What can I do to get mye backup running again?

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Re: Veeam keeping to many restore points

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Hi Kai,

Are you using Veeam B&R v7 or v8? How many full backup files (VBK) do you have on the repository?

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Re: Veeam keeping to many restore points

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I'm using v8 and there are two full backupfiles.
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Re: Veeam keeping to many restore points

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Do you have synthetic or full backups configured? If you need to free up some space, you may want to consider moving oldest VBK (full) backup and dependent incremental VIBs (increments), run the job and check if retention policy is applied or not. If it is not, then contact our technical team to review your log files.
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Re: Veeam keeping to many restore points

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I have syntetic full backups on saturdays. Will try to move the oldest VBK and VIBS
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Re: Veeam keeping to many restore points

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Please keep in mind that in v8, you no longer need to run synthetic fulls/active fulls. See this link for further reading > Forever Forward Incremental Backup
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