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Veeam Community discussions and solutions for: question about backup job's retention policy restore points vs days (not having to calculate?)

If I choose days instead of restore points then go to Schedule and have the job run periodically every 2 hours, would Veeam do the math on ...

23.09.2021 · Days: Veeam Backup & Replication keeps restore points created during the last N days, where N is the specified number of days. The daily retention policy can be helpful if you periodically create off-schedule backups. For example, you create a daily backup job and you want to store retention points for 14 calendar days.

Jan 19, 2015 · For a job that is configured to have a weekly full restore point, you will need 1 full point for every 7 restore points set in retention, plus 1. A job that is set for 14 restore points will have a maximum of 3 full restore points, assuming the job runs daily. C3. The Transform/Merge fails to process or the Synthetic full fails to be created.

04.10.2021 · By default, Veeam Backup & Replication keeps backup files created for 7 latest restore points. After this number is exceeded, Veeam Backup & Replication will remove the earliest restore points from the backup chain. From the Retention policy list, select days and specify the number of days for which you want to store backup files in the target ...

02.09.2014 · See pics attached. Veeam is completing all jobs successfully but the drive is growing and when i check, i'm configured for 12 days and some have 22 …

Daily restore points for 14 days; Weekly restore points for 4 weeks; Monthly restore points 6 months. What is the best way to do this taking in ...

Yes, i switched all my jobs to "days". Veeam will not care if you take 10 backups each day, it will hold on to as many restore points it needs to keep "14 days". This is a nice quality of life feature and you don't need to worry about complicated figuring to ensure x number of days.

Retention policy. It was always possible to define the number of restore points to keep. So if you performed one backup run per day and ...

Veeam Backup & Replication can copy restore points created by backup jobs or restore points of individual machines. If you select backup jobs when ...

19.01.2015 · For a job that is configured to have a weekly full restore point, you will need 1 full point for every 7 restore points set in retention, plus 1. A job that is set for 14 restore points will have a maximum of 3 full restore points, assuming the job runs daily. C3. The Transform/Merge fails to process or the Synthetic full fails to be created.

10.09.2021 · Short-term retention policy depends on the edition of Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows: In Free and Workstation editions, Veeam Agent retains restore points for a certain number of days. To learn more, see Retention Policy in Free and Workstation Editions. In the Server edition, you can select the short-term retention policy.

Feb 28, 2020 · Backup job day retention. Backup jobs will now have the option to base their retention on number days rather than number of restore points. Traditional backups job retention has always run by the number of restore points produced and is a piece of cake estimating the number of restore points to keep if you run your backup job every day once a day.

I am running the latest version of Veeam B&R and usually backup about 12 VMs and lately started to run short on storage space. I've noticed that when restoring a VM, I have about 9 restore points even though my retention settings are set to 4.

Backup copy jobs read specific VM restore points from backup files and ... multiple times per day (e.g. hourly synchronization interval), or again when the ...

23.08.2021 · Veeam needs all 24*7 restorepoints to restore data from that chain. A chain is a Fullbackup and all followed incremental files until a new Fullbackup (active or synthetic full) is generated. Second, veeam will keep a second backup chain until the new chain is three days old. You will have between 168 and 336 restore points all the time.

Sep 10, 2021 · In the Server edition, you can select the short-term retention policy. Veeam Agent can retain restore points for a certain number of days or retains a certain number of latest restore points that is defined by the user. To learn more, see Retention Policy in Server Edition. You can also specify the retention policy for outdated backups ...

Solution: What backup mode are you using? Forward or reversed incremental one? In the former case, how many restore points you have since the latest (or.

You could put 20 weeklys and those 20 will be saved, regardless of what you have in the "restore points to keep." It seems that restore points to keep correlates to incrementals that are copied over. So for instance, for us we have restore points to keep at 2 and weekly set to 52.

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Aug 16, 2021 · Veeam needs all 24*7 restorepoints to restore data from that chain. A chain is a Fullbackup and all followed incremental files until a new Fullbackup (active or synthetic full) is generated. Second, veeam will keep a second backup chain until the new chain is three days old. You will have between 168 and 336 restore points all the time.

Sep 23, 2021 · Restore points: Veeam Backup & Replication k eeps the last N restore points, where N is the specified number of restore points. Days: Veeam Backup & Replication k eeps restore points created during the last N days, where N is the specified number of days. The daily retention policy can be helpful if you periodically create off-schedule backups.