Retention Policies

Image-level backups created by jobs are not kept forever — they are removed according to retention policy settings specified while creating the jobs as described in section Creating Backup Jobs.

Restore points in the backup chain are stored only for the allowed period of time (in days). If a restore point is older than the specified time limit, Veeam Backup & Replication removes it from the backup chain. To learn how Veeam Backup & Replication applies retention policies to forever forward incremental and forward incremental backup chains, see Backup Retention.