Short-Term Retention Policy

Restore points in the backup chain are not kept forever. They are removed according to the retention policy. The short-term retention policy helps maintain the life cycle of restore points and make sure that backup files do not consume the whole disk space.

Veeam Agent retains restore points for a certain number of days. To learn more, see General Short-term Retention Policy.

You can also specify the retention policy for outdated backups — backups for which Veeam Agent does not create new restore points within a specified time period. To learn more, see Retention Policy for Outdated Backups.