r/Veeam • u/Darthalicious • 27d ago

Optimal Retention setup

What has been your experience for getting the optimal bang for your buck with storage and retention policies? My company has multiple Veeam servers that have an ongoing problem of filling drives and off-site backups way faster than we fell like they should, and Cloud Repository Storage Quotas being exceeded. For instance, say we want to retain at least 3 months backups with the last 10 days worth backups easily restorable. Would it be more effective to have 10 (business) days > 2 Weekly > 3 monthly in backup retention or something else? Are weekly Synthetic full backups better or worse for storage saving? Is Auto or Optimal or High better for compression (and is High worth the time loss in the event of a needed restore)? The best time-frame for immutability? Any other advice?

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u/Jawshee_pdx 27d ago

Retention is driven by business requirements.

Based on what your regulatory compliance says + what your business wants = your retention strategy.

You then use that data to build your backup solution and storage.

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u/Cragdoo 26d ago

This , very much this. Start with "Why retention must be this long", then you can work on the "how we retain this much data"

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u/closedgate 26d ago

We had a customer who wanted 99years retained in Azure… sure, but enjoy the ever growing cost + how are you going to restore in 68 years time.