Configuring Advanced Settings

In the Advanced settings window, you can schedule full backups, configure health check settings, specify backup file storage settings and enable email notifications.

Backup Settings

To instruct Veeam Backup & Replication to create full backups according to a specific schedule, switch to the Backup tab and do the following:

1. To schedule synthetic full backups, select the Create synthetic full backups periodically check box, click Configure and choose whether you want to create these backups on specific days on a weekly or monthly basis.
2. To schedule active full backups, select the Create active full backups periodically check box, click Configure and choose whether you want to create these backups on specific days on a weekly or monthly basis.

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

Health Check Settings

To instruct Veeam Backup & Replication to periodically perform a health check for backups, switch to the Maintenance tab, select the Perform backup files health check (detects and auto-heals corruption) check box and click Configure and specify a schedule for the health check to run.

Storage Settings

To specify storage settings for backup files created by the backup job, switch to the Storage tab and do the following:

1. To decreases the size of the files, select a compression level from the Compression level drop-down list (None, Dedupe-friendly, Optimal, High or Extreme). For more information on data compression, see Compression and Deduplication.
2. To optimize job performance and storage usage, select a block size from the Storage optimization drop-down list. Veeam Backup & Replication will use this size to "split" VM images into separate data blocks when processing VMs — the more data blocks there are, the more time is required to process the VM images. For more information on how data block sizes affect performance, see Storage Optimization.

Notification Settings

To instruct Veeam Backup & Replication to send email notifications on the backup job results, switch to the Notifications tab, select the Enable email notifications check box and specify an email address of a recipient; use a semicolon to separate multiple recipient addresses. For Veeam Backup & Replication to be able to send email notifications, you must configure a mail server as described in section Configuring Email Settings.