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Data Domain immutability and retention lock

  • July 12, 2025
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Hi guys, 

I have a question regarding the immutability in the data domain, I have a Job ( 7 days (short retention policy) and weekly for 7 weeks) I configured the retention lock with 6 days min and 14 day max and on Veeam side I set the immutability to 7 days 

What is going to happen in that case for both short retention backup and GFS backup ?

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Chris.Childerhose
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  • Veeam Vanguard
  • July 13, 2025

Hi Aym. In case of using Retention Lock compliance mode on your DD, you should set the max retention according to your max GFS setting, in your case 49days+ (more then your max GFS retention in VBR).

take also a look at https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-si/000079803/data-domain-retention-lock-frequently-asked-questions-faq


Paolo has also written an article on how to configure this https://www.starwindsoftware.com/blog/configure-veeam-data-domain-retention-lock/

 

Hope that’s helps.

 Best, Markus