Backup Settings

To specify settings for a backup chain created by the backup job:

At the Storage step of the wizard, click Advanced.
On the Backup tab, select the backup method that you want to use to create the backup chain in the backup repository:

To create a reverse incremental backup chain, select Reverse Incremental.

Important

Consider the following:

Dell Data Domain and HPE StoreOnce do not support the reverse incremental backup method.
Direct backup to object storage repositories does not support the reverse incremental backup method.

To create an incremental backup chain, select Incremental and enable synthetic full or active full backups, or both (see items 3-4).

To create a forever forward incremental backup chain, select Incremental. Also, check that synthetic full and active full backups are disabled (see items 3-4).

For more information, see Backup Methods.

You can select to periodically create synthetic full backups if you choose the incremental backup method. Select the Create synthetic full backups periodically on check box and click Configure to schedule synthetic full backups on the necessary days of the week.

Important

For backup jobs created in Veeam Backup & Replication version prior to 11, you could enable the Transform previous backup chains into rollbacks option. Starting from Veeam Backup & Replication version 11, this option was deprecated and the feature could no longer be selected in new jobs. However, jobs that were already using this feature will continue to do so after upgrading to Veeam Backup & Replication 11. Starting from Veeam Backup & Replication 12, this feature is fully deprecated, and the presence of any jobs still using this feature blocks the upgrade to Veeam Backup & Replication 12. For more details, see this Veeam KB article.

You can select to periodically create active full backups with any backup mode enabled. Select the Create active full backups periodically on check box and click Configure to define scheduling settings.

Before you schedule periodic full backups, you must ensure you have enough free space in the backup repository. As an alternative, you can create active full backups manually when needed. For more information, see Active Full Backup.

Important

Consider the following:

If you schedule the active full backup and synthetic full backup on the same day, Veeam Backup & Replication will perform only the active full backup. Synthetic full backup will be skipped.

If you schedule a job to start after another job (initial job), but the initial job does not run on days when the synthetic or active full backup is scheduled for the chained job, Veeam Backup & Replication will not create active or synthetic full backups. For more information on the job schedule options, see Define Job Schedule.

Backup Settings