Backup specifics

[dnichols]

What are the benefits of the multiple different types of veeam backups, as well which one is preferred among veeam users
IE vbk/vib/vrb

[Shestakov]

Hello Danny,
Veeam Backup and Replication leverages capabilities of different types of jobs: Backup job, Backup Copy job, Backup to Tape etc. depending on the goal.
Backup job has 3 different methods for creating backup chains. Chaining helps to use less space on your repositories.
.vbk(stands for Veeam BacKup) is a full backup while .vib(stands for Veeam Incremental Backup) and .vrb(stands for Veeam Reversed incremental Backup) are incremental backups used for forward and reversed incremental chains correspondingly.
Our default backup method is Forever forward incremental backup one.
Please check provided links and ask additional questions if you have any. Thanks.

[dnichols]

Thank you for the help a lot of information in the links its greatly appreciated

[Shestakov]

You are welcome Danny!
Once you have a question, don`t hesitate to ask!