07.04.2021 · The retention policy for a backup job is set to 5 points. The backup job is run daily. The retention period in Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager is set to 1 month, or 30 days. In this case, Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager will retain indexing data for 30 days, because this value is greater than the number of restore points in the job.
22.05.2021 · The retention policy for the backup job is set to 3 points. The backup job is run daily. The retention period in Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager is set to 1 month, or 30 days. In this case, Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager will retain in Veeam Backup Catalog indexing data for 30 days plus indexing data for 3 restore points in the backup chain.
12.10.2010 · So, as long as last incremental backup file in backup chain must be restorable according to set retention policy, whole respective full + incremental backup chain will have to stay on disk (resulting in more backup files on disk then you may have expected).
01.09.2020 · Reverse Incremental Backup Retention Policy In case of reverse incremental backup, Veeam Backup & Replication immediately deletes the earliest reverse incremental backup file as soon as it becomes outdated. For example, you configure a backup job in the following way: The backup job starts on Sunday. The backup method is reverse incremental.
01.09.2020 · For this reason, if you select forward incremental backup method, in some days there will be more restore points on disk than specified by retention policy settings. Veeam Backup & Replication will remove the full backup chain only after the last incremental backup file in the chain becomes outdated.
In case of reverse incremental backup, Veeam Backup & Replication immediately deletes the earliest reverse incremental backup file as soon as it becomes ...
For this reason, if you select forward incremental backup method, in some days there will be more restore points on disk than specified by retention policy ...
07.10.2021 · To control the number of restore points in the backup chain, you must specify retention policy settings. The retention policy defines how many restore points you want to retain on disk and thus how ‘far’ you are able to roll back.