Retention Policies

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.

Depending on the data protection scenario, retention policies can be specified:

• In restore points

The chain can contain only the allowed number of restore points. If the number of allowed restore points is exceeded, Veeam Backup for Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager and Red Hat Virtualization removes the earliest restore point from the chain.

• In days

Restore points in the backup chain can be stored only for the allowed period of time. If a restore point is older than the specified time limit, Veeam Backup for Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager and Red Hat Virtualization removes it from the backup chain.

To learn how Veeam Backup for Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager and Red Hat Virtualization applies retention policies to forever forward incremental and forward incremental backup chains, see Backup Retention.