Specifying Monthly Schedule

To create a monthly schedule for the backup policy, at the Schedule step of the wizard, do the following:

Set the Monthly retention toggle to On and click Configure monthly settings.
In the Create monthly schedule window, select months when the backup policy must create cloud-native snapshots and image-level backups.

Note

Veeam Backup for GCP does not create image-level backups independently from cloud-native snapshots. That is why when you select months for image-level backups, the same months are automatically selected for cloud-native snapshots. To learn how Veeam Backup for GCP performs backup, see How Backup Works.

Use the Create restore points at and Run on drop-down lists to schedule a specific time and day for the backup policy to run.
In the Monthly retention section, configure retention policy settings for the monthly schedule:

For cloud-native snapshots, specify the number of restore points that you want to keep in a snapshot chain.

If the restore point limit is exceeded, Veeam Backup for GCP removes the earliest restore point from the chain. For more information, see Retention Policy for Snapshots.

For image-level backups, specify the number of days (or months) for which you want to keep restore points in a backup chain.

If a restore point is older than the specified time limit, Veeam Backup for GCP removes the restore point from the chain. For more information, see Retention Policy for Backups.

To save changes made to the backup policy settings, click Apply.