Hi @ODeSouza -

Not entirely sure the question you’re asking, but if you have a backup copy job and using GFR retention, you can go into your ‘Backups’ section in the VBR Console, rt-click the Backup/Copy Job > Properties, then you can see what the backup file type is - (M)onthly, (Y)early, (W)eekly, etc.

Hope that helps.

Hi @ODeSouza,

VBM365 functions differently to VBR. Whereas VBR works with full and incremental files, instead VBM365 utilises a database so each item is backed up once, it’s a lot more space efficient for item based workloads such as this.

Some good reading:

If you’re planning on using cache + object storage: https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/vbo365/guide/vbo_osr.html?ver=60

If you’re planning on using traditional storage: https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/vbo365/guide/vbo_backup_repositories.html?ver=60

In summary though, your snapshot retention will keep the item for your database for as long as it exists in production + your retention period.

Oh gosh...ooops!...he did ask for VBO, didn’t he? Thanks @MicoolPaul  :) 

If in the database of the backup VBM365 we’ll have all the email messages as they are in the production O365 + my retention period, that means if we configure a retention policy of 60 days and today somebody delete an email message received in 2020, we can recover it from the backup, right?

correct :) item level is based on when the content was created/modified, whereas you said you’re using snapshot which is based on the time of the backup.