Backup Copy quarterly and yearly backups

[wilsonb05]

One of our customers has recently installed a new VBR server and we are currently in the process of moving the backup copy to point from the old location to the new primary backup job. The new repository is REFS and so the block size is different when we try to migrate.

We know the solution is to do an active full backup however the repository doesn't have enough room to do the active full.

The backup copy job is configured to create quarterly and yearly backups so our thought was to move off one of the quarterly backup files, run the active full, wait till the retention period catches up and the legacy full is then removed. Once that happens we can then move the quarterly backup file back into the backup folder.
The question is, does the Veeam job use the quarterly jobs to make the yearly ? also as we are due a quarterly in Jan is it worth us removing the oldest quarterly that way Veeam will use the latest one made in jan for the yearly ?

[Shestakov]

Hello Bailey,
No, bcj doesn't use quarterly backup to produce an yearly one.
You can save more space if you schedule weekly, monthly and other GFS backups on the same day (e.g. Sunday for weekly, last Sunday of month for Monthly etc). This way same file will be marked as weekly, monthly etc.