Veeam Vault • Re: Don't understand how immutable works with retention policy

You're not alone in this regard. You are correct, VDCV does apply a 10-day block gen.
While the UI only shows what is configured as retention, the immutable data is still in the Vault. There is a Veeam Powershell command that will make that data visible if needed.

To me, the real question is, if your intention is to have 30-days of retention in VDCV and all 30 are to be indelible, how does one achieve this with minimal overhead via a copy job? Should we set job retention to 16 days and repo immutability to 14? However, I'd like all 30 days to be visible in the UI. Would setting job retention to 30 and repo immutability to 1 provide 30-ish visible restore points that are indelible? Adding to that, it seems I've found conflicting info regarding copy job GFS points either being immutable for the duration of the GFS or only the repo immutability, which is it?

Statistics: Posted by BusterRox — Oct 10, 2025 4:04 pm

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