Job's Next Run Date Doesn't Match Schedule

Challenge The 'Next Run' date shown for a job does not match the settings selected in the Schedule tab of the job. For example, a job configured to run Monthly on the last Saturday displays a 'Next Run' date of the upcoming Saturday, which is not the last Saturday of the month. Cause This occurs...

Backup Job has Too Many Restore Points - Considerations and Causes

Purpose This article provides information about the two most common configurations whose behavior can appear to cause "Too many restore points." Forward Incremental Retention Per-Machine Backup Files Solution Forward Incremental Retention The Forward Incremental Backup mode's method of retention...

Forward Incremental – Animation of Method and Retention

Purpose This article is intended to document how Forward Incremental works, and how its retention is enforced. Solution There are two distinct methods of Forward Incremental: Forever Forward Incremental Forward Incremental with Periodic Fulls Forever Forward Incremental For more information...

Animated Retention Policies/Modes

Objective To demonstrate Veeam Backup & Replication's different backup methods and their retention logic. Solution For information regarding Forward Incremental and Forever Forward Incremental , please see www.veeam.com/kb1932. For information regarding Reverse Incremental , please see...

Reverse incremental job scheduling does not work properly

Challenge Reverse incremental job starts ignoring their scheduled settings, and run on the days selected for Synthetic Fulls, even when the check-box is grayed out. Solution To resolve the issue you need to enable forward incremental mode in the job settings and deselect "Enable synthetic fulls"...