I have a backup job set to run daily with 7 days retention and weekly synthetic fulls. On the 8th day is there anything in Veeam that makes the previous week’s full still immutable (due to the fact that the incrementals depend on that full) even though it will be beyond the 7 day immutable set on the repository?Ģ. On the 8th day I should have on the repository the new full for the current week and the previous week’s full and 6 incremental. This job is being sent to a Linux repository that has immutability set to 7 days. I have a backup job set to run once a day with 7 days retention and weekly synthetic fulls.

Veeam Backup & Replication can store short-term restore points for a longer period than specified in the short-term retention policy.1. If the transaction log file does not contain data for further restore points, Veeam Backup & Replication deletes the transaction log file as redundant - its data has already been committed into the base or delta disk file.If an outdated restore point exists, Veeam Backup & Replication commints data for the restore point from the transaction log file (.tlog) into the nearest delta or base disk file ( -flat.vmdk or.

Veeam Backup & Replication checks whether the replication chain contains outdated short-term restore points.The example shows how short-term retention works for a VM replica with one virtual disk. When the retention period is exceeded, Veeam Backup & Replication transforms the replication chain in the following way. Veeam Backup & Replication retains short-term restore points for the number of hours specified in CDP policy settings. Veeam Backup & Replication removes the earliest delta disk file from the chain as redundant - this data has already been commited into the base disk file. This way, the base disk file ‘moves’ forward in the replication chainģ. To do that, Veeam Backup & Replication commits into the base disk file data from the earliest delta disk file. If an outdated restore point exists, Veeam Backup & Replication rebuilds the file that contains data for the base disk ( -flat.vmdk) to include data of the file that contains data for the delta disk (.Veeam Backup & Replication checks whether the replication chain contains outdated long-term restore points.The example shows how long-term retention works for a VM replica with one virtual disk. Veeam Backup & Replication retains long-term restore points for the number of days specified in CDP policy settings. Veeam Backup & Replication offers two retention policy schemes: A retention policy defines for how long Veeam Backup & Replication must store restore points for VM replicas.

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