Veeam settings to purge Exchange items from database upon backup

[mrhcarlin]

Apologies if this is straightforward, but does enabling "application-aware processing" for a job containing an Exchange mailbox database server trigger the deletion/retention settings on the mailbox database if the property "don't permanently delete items until the database has been backed up" is turned on? Or is Exchange/Veeam intelligent enough to trigger it regardless of this property?

Thank you!

[Gostev]

This Veeam setting prunes transactions logs only. We don't touch actual mailbox databases. Thanks!

[mrhcarlin]

Thanks!

So just to clarify, there's no way in the Veeam job to trigger the "don't permanently delete items until the database has been backed up" mechanism on the mailbox database?

[foggy]

Correct, Veeam B&R jobs do not affect original databases.