Hi Nikks, 

What type of retention policy do you have?

Additionally, what type of backups are you running? Forever incremental? Are you able to give us more information?

Retention of indexes is controlled in Enterprise Manager settings (Settings Menu, Tab “Session History”), it is usually different from the retention configured in the backup jobs.

Agree with Matt as that is a setting in VEM.  Check there and reduce the retention.

Here - https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/em/current_hist_indexing_data.html?ver=120

It is 18 months

Retention of indexes is controlled in Enterprise Manager settings (Settings Menu, Tab “Session History”), it is usually different from the retention configured in the backup jobs.

It is 18 months

 

This is for session history .Will it count for index/machine / machinname folder count ? Also the issue is not happening for all other machines inside index/machine 

Retention of indexes is controlled in Enterprise Manager settings (Settings Menu, Tab “Session History”), it is usually different from the retention configured in the backup jobs.

It is 18 months

 

This would be the reason for the number of folders - yes to your question.

Retention of indexes is controlled in Enterprise Manager settings (Settings Menu, Tab “Session History”), it is usually different from the retention configured in the backup jobs.

It is 18 months

 

This would be the reason for the number of folders - yes to your question.

 

Thanks. But it is showing more folders for only one VM .That is what confusing me.

 

 

That setting in the screenshot controls the Index retention which is what you are seeing.  Was there a question to your reply/quote?  I did not see anything.

Retention of indexes is controlled in Enterprise Manager settings (Settings Menu, Tab “Session History”), it is usually different from the retention configured in the backup jobs.

It is 18 months

 

This would be the reason for the number of folders - yes to your question.

 

Thanks. But it is showing more folders for only one VM .That is what confusing me.

 

 

That setting in the screenshot controls the Index retention which is what you are seeing.  Was there a question to your reply/quote?  I did not see anything.

MattM mentioned about it

NikksAuthor2 hours ago

MattM wrote:

Retention of indexes is controlled in Enterprise Manager settings (Settings Menu, Tab “Session History”), it is usually different from the retention configured in the backup jobs.

Retention of indexes is controlled in Enterprise Manager settings (Settings Menu, Tab “Session History”), it is usually different from the retention configured in the backup jobs.

It is 18 months

 

This would be the reason for the number of folders - yes to your question.

 

Thanks. But it is showing more folders for only one VM .That is what confusing me.

 

 

That setting in the screenshot controls the Index retention which is what you are seeing.  Was there a question to your reply/quote?  I did not see anything.

MattM mentioned about it

NikksAuthor2 hours ago

MattM wrote:

Retention of indexes is controlled in Enterprise Manager settings (Settings Menu, Tab “Session History”), it is usually different from the retention configured in the backup jobs.

Ok so does that answer your question then?

Retention of indexes is controlled in Enterprise Manager settings (Settings Menu, Tab “Session History”), it is usually different from the retention configured in the backup jobs.

It is 18 months

 

This would be the reason for the number of folders - yes to your question.

 

Thanks. But it is showing more folders for only one VM .That is what confusing me.

 

 

That setting in the screenshot controls the Index retention which is what you are seeing.  Was there a question to your reply/quote?  I did not see anything.

MattM mentioned about it

NikksAuthor2 hours ago

MattM wrote:

Retention of indexes is controlled in Enterprise Manager settings (Settings Menu, Tab “Session History”), it is usually different from the retention configured in the backup jobs.

Ok so does that answer your question then?

will this modification impact backup jobs with longer retention policy?

Retention of indexes is controlled in Enterprise Manager settings (Settings Menu, Tab “Session History”), it is usually different from the retention configured in the backup jobs.

It is 18 months

 

This would be the reason for the number of folders - yes to your question.

 

Thanks. But it is showing more folders for only one VM .That is what confusing me.

 

 

That setting in the screenshot controls the Index retention which is what you are seeing.  Was there a question to your reply/quote?  I did not see anything.

MattM mentioned about it

NikksAuthor2 hours ago

MattM wrote:

Retention of indexes is controlled in Enterprise Manager settings (Settings Menu, Tab “Session History”), it is usually different from the retention configured in the backup jobs.

Ok so does that answer your question then?

will this modification impact backup jobs with longer retention policy?

It should not as it is for indexing and the retention for that.  Job retention is different from index retention.