Weekly Backup Cycle

[Batman]

Hi All,

i need your help, i'm new on veeam B&R.
We'd like all backups cycle to be 4 weeks,
should i use retention policy, GFS ? what is the best way.

Thanks,

[Andreas Neufert]

Can you please clarify. Do you mean 4 weeks of daily backups ?

Anyway select 28 restore points or days in the job. GFS is not really needed as it is used for long term backups.

[Batman]

Hi Andreas,
Sorry, I did not explain myself well.
i need backup all days of the week (Sun,Mon,Tu,Wed,Thu,Fr,Sa) and they start again new backup Sunday and this during 4 weeks .
is it possible?

thanks a lot.

[Andreas Neufert]

Sure.
The default Veeam VMware/Hyper-V Job setting will do exactly this when you set 28 restore points.
It is called Synthetic Full + Incremental processing with weekly Synthetic full. You can select the date for the Synthetic Full in the wizard.
https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... ml?ver=100
https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... ml?ver=100

[Batman]

Ok i will do.

Thanks,

[habibalby]

Hello,
You can create PowerShell script for each job and use Task Scheduler in Windows with .bat script to run the PowerShell script for the VBR-Job. Then you can schedule the Task Scheduler when to run from Sun~Thu or Mon~Fri, according to your needs.

For the weekly backups, you can use the Advanced Option in Storage for each Job and schedule the Active Full Backup according to your needs, mine is set on Friday. And create another script for the same job with different task scheduler that runs on Friday/Sat for the full backups.

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Add-PSSnapin VeeamPSSnapin

# Add the name of the backup jobs to be included here. The order in which they are entered is the order in which they will run

$chainedjobs = (“Critical VMs-5 -> Tape”)

foreach ($jobname in $chainedjobs){
$job = Get-VBRJob -name $jobname
$jobtry = 0
start-VBRJob -job $job

$job.GetLastResult()
if($job.GetLastResult() -eq “Failed”){
do{
Start-Sleep 480
Start-VBRJob -job $job -RetryBackup
$jobtry++
}
while(($jobtry -lt 3) -and ($job.GetLastResult() -eq “Failed”))
}
}

Batch script to use it for Task Schduler to run the PowerShell script;

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Powershell.exe "C:\Scripts\CriticalVMs-5 - Tape.ps1"

Hope it helps.

Thanks,
Hussain

[habibalby]

Hello,

Forgot to mention the retention restore points policy.. This is all depends on your and the organization policy for how long you want to retain data on disks before got deleted.

When you configure a job and run it for the first time, it will runs in Full Backup and will create a vbk file, if you run it next time it will start running as incremental and create .vbr file. The .vbr files will be created until the job reached the configured restore points. And this is all depending on your disk storage as well. I've struggled with this enough until I came with a number that sustain my storage and my immediate restoration from disks. Retention Policy #5 Restore Points. In Advanced -> Maintenance "Full Backup File Maintenance" EnabledRemove deleted items data after #5 days.

What does this config do; it runs Friday as Full Backups and then Sun~Thu incremental backups. #CheckPoint('OnWednesday')

Retention Policy #5 Restore Points

it deletes previous week backups on Wednesday.

My Tape backup jobs starts from last full backups on Friday until Sunday.

Thanks,

[Batman]

Thanks habib_Kalbi , i will try the script and let you know.

[habibalby]

Let us know how it goes please.

Thanks,