Veeam full backup retention

Not the specific day unless it falls in the weekly used for the monthly backup.

Thanks. or else we need to disable synthetic backup , in order for AF to be GFS ?

It will depend on the settings and how you have it set up.  Typically I use either Synthetic or AF but not both.  I use Synthetic if I am using ReFS/XFS repos with fast clone, otherwise I use AF.  If only AF then depending on when that runs and falls in to the GFS schedule will determine it.

Hi ​@Nikks - Using Synth vs AF depends on a couple factors as I shared why earlier, and Chris shares above. 

What do you mean is there a way to retain the last Full of the month? You can configure to create your Fulls on which day each month. If you mean for GFS, I don’t think so. You may have to reach out to Support for that question.

Best.

Nikks wrote:

coolsport00 wrote:

I don’t think that is the reason ​@Nikks . Deleted Items only refers to VM objects in a Job which have been removed from a Job and are no longer processed. So, if you remove “VM-A” from your Job, it is removed after 30 days only after it meets certain criteria, one of which if it is no longer part of an active backup chain.

See: https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/retention_deleted_vms.html?ver=120

Thanks for the clarification. Disk properties shows M 

 

If you are set to GFS with 3 monthly, this is working as expected with the 3 monthly jobs being retained.  I believe you specified active full end of month in your post. 

If one of the other VM’s were added later, it’s possible they may have less restore points, or if a VM was removed from the job, the 30 day deletion will come into effect.