Current setup.
I have a regular Veeam backup job. It backs up my VMs, keeping 15 copies.
I have a backup copy job, that copies the backups created above to the performance tier of my SOBR. This job has set as the retention policy: 2 restore points.
It also keeps 13 weekly, 13 monthly and 5 yearly backups. The option ’Read the entire restore point from source backup instead of synthesizing it from increments ’ is set
In my SOBR, I have the option set:
- to Copy backups to object storage as soon as they are created.
- Move the backups to object storage as soon as they age out of the operational restore window: Move backups older than 1 days.
What this results in is:
- 15 backups in the backup repository from the regular backup job.
- Up to 7 daily backups in the SOBR performance tier AND in the capacity tier. They get deleted as per Veeams retention-logic. But always a minimum of 2.
- Weekly/Monthly/Yearly backups in the capacity tier
Now to my question:
The regular backup keeps 15 daily, the backup copy a minimum of 2. The daily backup in the backup repository from the regular veeam backup has the same content as the backup-copy daily backup that sits in the performace tier of the SOBR. It gets uploaded to the capacity tier almost immediately.
Now what if I wanted to keep 15 daily backup from my regular backups, but then 30 daily backups in the SOBR, but not actually have them on on-prem in the performance tier but uploaded to the capacity tier. (I understand there’s meta data left behind, but it is much less than the actual backup).
Is this possible?
The reason for asking is that I don’t want 15 daily backups on my regular repository, AND have 30 daily backups on the SOBR performance tier, as 15 of them would be duplicates?
