I have a customer that would like to have a way to save decommissioned server backups for 7 years. Their normal retention for backup jobs is 1 year. They use Data Domain for archive storage. When they decommission a server they would like to keep the backup for 7 years. My thought was to create a second repository on the Data Domain, move the backups there and then remove the server from the backup job. Would this effectively exclude those backups from retention policies?
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Long term storage for Decommissioned servers
Best answer by TylerJurgens
Another option would be to simply take a VeeamZIP of the VM (before you delete it) and target whatever repository you want to target for long term storage and set it to expire after 7 years.
That would take a backup of the VM from the current point in time and keep it until it expires out. You can also set encryption on that backup if you should so choose.
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