Launching Background Retention

Veeam Backup & Replication launches background retention every 24 hours at 00:30. If you need to free up disk space from outdated backups earlier, you can launch the background retention manually.

Note

Be careful when launching background retention to avoid losing necessary data. For more information, see Background Retention.

To launch the background retention outside its automatic schedule, do the following:

Open the Home view.
In the inventory pane, right-click the Backups node.
Select Apply retention now or click Apply Retention on the ribbon.