Hello everyone. Fairly new to Veeam and the forum in general, and somewhat of an IT newbie.
We're currently reworking our backup structure and I've made great progress so far.
As it currently stands we do daily reverse incremental backups of all our Servers. Those backups are then copied to a Tape (and also duplicated to another backup drive).
There is one Problem however:
One of our backups is a "Windows Agent Backup" "Failover Cluster" type Backup, which has no option for reverse incremental. As I understand it can only do forever forward incremental.
"Name: [Redacted]
Description: Physical Hyper V Cluster
Type: failover cluster
Mode: managed by backup server
Protected computers:
[Redacted]
Backup mode: entire computer
Destination: Veeam backup repository
Target storage: [Redacted]
Retention policy: 7 days
Application-aware processing is enabled
Backup is scheduled to run automatically
GFS retention policy: not set"
With all our other Backup Jobs we work with Reverse Incremental because we do daily full backups to tape. Every day the Tape job checks for a full backup file and copies it over. The Reverse-Incremental Method makes sure we only have to store one full backup and several increments, and that the sole full backup file is the most up-to-date one (since it is reverse).
This works well for all our backup jobs EXCEPT the Windows Agent one. It would have to create a full backup every day in order for the Tape Job to have something to copy, which is not feasible or economical as each file would be around 180GB for each day of the week.
Our current setting only creates a synthetic full backup on Sundays, creating the problem that only the Monday tape has the full backup while each other day copies nothing over.
Is there any way to make Veeam transfer over an up-to-date full backup to the tape every day without us having to create & store a full backup for each day?
We're currently reworking our backup structure and I've made great progress so far.
As it currently stands we do daily reverse incremental backups of all our Servers. Those backups are then copied to a Tape (and also duplicated to another backup drive).
There is one Problem however:
One of our backups is a "Windows Agent Backup" "Failover Cluster" type Backup, which has no option for reverse incremental. As I understand it can only do forever forward incremental.
"Name: [Redacted]
Description: Physical Hyper V Cluster
Type: failover cluster
Mode: managed by backup server
Protected computers:
[Redacted]
Backup mode: entire computer
Destination: Veeam backup repository
Target storage: [Redacted]
Retention policy: 7 days
Application-aware processing is enabled
Backup is scheduled to run automatically
GFS retention policy: not set"
With all our other Backup Jobs we work with Reverse Incremental because we do daily full backups to tape. Every day the Tape job checks for a full backup file and copies it over. The Reverse-Incremental Method makes sure we only have to store one full backup and several increments, and that the sole full backup file is the most up-to-date one (since it is reverse).
This works well for all our backup jobs EXCEPT the Windows Agent one. It would have to create a full backup every day in order for the Tape Job to have something to copy, which is not feasible or economical as each file would be around 180GB for each day of the week.
Our current setting only creates a synthetic full backup on Sundays, creating the problem that only the Monday tape has the full backup while each other day copies nothing over.
Is there any way to make Veeam transfer over an up-to-date full backup to the tape every day without us having to create & store a full backup for each day?
Statistics: Posted by Trapeze — Aug 16, 2024 1:04 pm
