Best Practices to meet retention policies

[UampsIT]

This has probably already been covered but I couldn't find it so I'll ask again.
My company requires us to keep 30 dailies, 24 monthlies, and 10 annual backups. What would be the best way to accomplish this? Is this going to require multiple backup jobs or can it be accomplished with a single job?

[backupquestions]

Gfs retention is only available on a backup copy job in Veeam.

So I would say 2 jobs total. One is your main backup job of this vm. Can be set for incremental forever and whatever like say 30 on simple retention. This is your daily requirement.

Now, make a backup copy job to another repository and set simple on 30 again, (now you have dailies in 2 places) and enable gfs retention settings on this job. Set 24 monthlies and 10 yearlies on this.

I would either use a scale out repo with object storage for these gfs points to go to, or make sure the repo is formatted refs 64k block sizes.

Otherwise you will find it takes way too much space with ntfs as every single monthly and yearly is a full backup size.

[foggy]

Also, FYI, GFS for primary jobs will be available in the upcoming version v10.

[UampsIT]

Any idea when version 10 will be available?

[veremin]

Should be available in December. Thanks!