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Many snapshot not cleaned

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Hi to all
in all my replica vm, i've many snapshot, one for day..
in image attached there are only 2 because yesterday i've removed all snapshot.

I've attached one screenshot abount vm mgt01
There are not job running about vm in screen...

Thanks in advance
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Re: Many snapshot not cleaned

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Hello Vagnu00

Welcome to the forum.
Those snapshots are <replica restore points>. Do not delete them manually.
Each time you run a replica job, a new snapshot is created. You can use the backup console to failover a VM to one of those snapshots.

The amount of snapshots to keep is configured in the VM replica job (Option Restore points to keep):
https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... ml?ver=120

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Re: Many snapshot not cleaned

Post by Andreas Neufert » 1 person likes this post

They are not an issue as the VM is offline and will only come online at failover.
The cool thing is that the Veeam Replication stored its restore points in regular snapshot. This gives you the chance to failover to them even when whole Veeam is down/gone.
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Re: Many snapshot not cleaned

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Thanks Mildur!!! :))
Mildur wrote: Feb 12, 2024 1:26 pm Hello Vagnu00

Welcome to the forum.
Those snapshots are <replica restore points>. Do not delete them manually.
Each time you run a replica job, a new snapshot is created. You can use the backup console to failover a VM to one of those snapshots.

The amount of snapshots to keep is configured in the VM replica job (Option Restore points to keep):
https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... ml?ver=120

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Best,
Fabian
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