It seems there are some misunderstandings here. There is no reduced load on the production VM when comparing forward incremental vs reverse incremental. The first full will create exactly the same load, after this Veeam will leverage changed block tracking and extract only changed blocks = equal load from either forward/reverse incremental.
When restoring from the latest restore point, there is no benefit to restore from VBK versus a chain. The reason is Veeam metadata. This means sure the VBK contains all the blocks needed, but if you restore from a forward incremental chain, we don't read the entire chain, only the exact blocks needed to restore the latest restore point, but all of the changed blocks that are not needed will not be read/processed.
When restoring from the latest restore point, there is no benefit to restore from VBK versus a chain. The reason is Veeam metadata. This means sure the VBK contains all the blocks needed, but if you restore from a forward incremental chain, we don't read the entire chain, only the exact blocks needed to restore the latest restore point, but all of the changed blocks that are not needed will not be read/processed.
Statistics: Posted by haslund — Apr 04, 2025 6:37 am
