Configuring Advanced Settings

To configure advanced settings for the backup job, do the following:

1. Click Advanced.
2. To schedule synthetic full backups, on the Backup tab of the Advanced settings window, select the Create synthetic full backups periodically check box, click Configure and choose whether you want to create synthetic full backups on specific days every week or on specific days of specific months.
3. To schedule active full backups, on the Backup tab of the Advanced settings window, select the Create active full backups periodically check box, click Configure and choose whether you want to create active full backups on specific days every week or on specific days of specific months.

Alternatively, you can create active full backups manually when needed. For more information, see Creating Active Full Backup.

4. To instruct Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV to periodically perform a health check for backups created by the backup job, on the Maintenance tab of the Advanced settings window, select the Perform backup files health check (detects and auto-heals corruption) check box, click Configure and specify a schedule for the health check to run.

5. To configure retention settings for backups of VMs that are no longer processed by the backup job, on the Maintenance tab of the Advanced settings window, select the Remove deleted items data after check box, and specify the number of days during which Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV will keep backups of VMs excluded from the job.
6. To decrease the size of the backup, on the Storage tab of the Advanced settings window, from the Compression level drop-down list, select a compression level for the backup: None, Dedupe-friendly, Optimal, High or Extreme. For more information on data compression, see Compression and Deduplication.
7. To optimize job performance and storage usage, on the Storage tab of the Advanced settings window, from the Storage optimization drop-down list, select the block size that will be used to process VMs. For more information on the data block sizes and how they affect performance, see Storage Optimization.
8. To instruct Nutanix AHV to freeze applications running on VMs while snapshots are taken, set the Enable Nutanix Guest Tools quiescense toggle to On and choose how Nutanix AHV will process transaction logs.

Keep in mind that the Never truncate transaction logs (VSS_BT_COPY) option may significantly increase the amount of storage space consumed by VMs that function as Microsoft Exchange Mail Servers.

9. [Applies only if you have included protection domains in the backup job] To instruct Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV to execute a custom script while running the backup job, on the Scripts tab of the Advanced settings window, select the Run the following script to create a PD snapshot check box, and click Browse to upload a script file. For more information, see Writing Custom Scripts.