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In the “Shared Folder” section (since I’m backing up to a network location), click “Advanced”.Ĭheck “Create active full backups periodically”, then select when you’d like it to run. Right-click on the created job (in my case “Job SERVER”), then “edit job”. To do this, simply check the box “Create active full backups periodically” under the backup job settings.Įnter the Control Panel for Veeam Agent. This is what is needed so that the full backup isn’t touched and 250GB doesn’t have to be reuploaded each time an incremental is merged into the full backup. On the day that the last incremental backup linked to the old full backup ages out (expires), delete that full backup plus any additional incremental backups associated with it.Don’t touch the full backup file created before this. On a specified day, run a new full backup.

On subsequent runs up to the maximum allowed backup retention, create a smaller incremental backup file with only changes.

The solution is to create a plain ‘ole “full forward” backup. The large (in my case, 250GB) backup will need to be uploaded EVERY DAY. This keeps the number of backup files under the allowed maximum. Next, create an additional incremental backup file. This changes the size and timestamp of the initial full backup.

For each new incremental backup past the allowed backup retention, merge the oldest incremental backup file into the main backup.

On subsequent runs up to the maximum allowed backup retention (default is 7 days), create a smaller incremental backup file with only changes.

The default method of creating a backup yields a “forever forward incremental” backup which works like the following: I needed to back up a volume from within Windows Server 2012 R2 (will soon be upgrading to Windows Server 2022), transfer it to my NAS solution, then upload to Backblaze B2. In it’s simplest form, you can use the standalone Veeam Agent to create a simple backup for a single system from within that system. Veeam Backup and Replication is a backup solution for Windows and Linux servers and VMs that’s ideal for both simple and extremely complex jobs.