Veeam Backup & Replication • [RETENTION DOUBTS] - Case #07785132

Hello,

I have a doubt that is unclear for me since long time ago.

Let´s assume that we have a backup job (Windows agent backup), that is doing backups of server in a protection group.
Retention is: 7 days for daily backups; 4 weeks for weekly backups; 1month to the monthly backup and I have set in the Storage part of the policy the option " Maintenance - Remove deleted items data after 35days "

Servers under backup of that policy were deleted from the infra and because of that I can´t keep the policy activated or it will fail daily saying that the server is not available.

After disabled it, I can see that the retention points are not expired automatically.

Is it the correct approach ? How to solve it and have the data deleted ? ( only manually ) ?

Case #07785132

Thanks

Statistics: Posted by CarlosEsteves — Oct 07, 2025 4:44 pm

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