How to expire Veeam Backup Jobs

October 15, 2018 at 11:25 am Leave a comment

When using Veeam B&R , if you had to face a situation where you need to expire the old backups to free up some disk space you need to follow slightly a different approach. As mostly in other cases (especially VERITAS) you could simply change the retention period to a lower value and need to restart the services , you could notice the backup files have been disappeared. In Veeam you need to go through the below steps.

Remove the backup files manually (recommended to clear the files created by the last incremental jobs until you reach to the last full backup).
Reduce the backup pointer to a lower value in your backup job.
Then you need to start the jobs manually or wait for the next schedule.