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Veeam Backup & Replication uses a number of cycles to retain backups for different periods of time according to the GFS retention scheme:
- Regular backup cycle
- Weekly backup cycle
- Monthly backup cycle
- Quarterly backup cycle
- Yearly backup cycle
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The full backup can be marked as weekly, monthly, quarterly and/or yearly. When transforming weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly backup chains, Veeam Backup & Replication checks flags set for the full backup file. If the full backup file belongs to some other retention policy tier and must be retained on the target backup repository, such backup file will not be removed. |
