An engineer sets up a backup job with direct backup to the AWS S3. The retention of the job is set to 31 days and the immutable period is set to 31 days. However, one full backup data is not removed automatically after 60 days.
Which option could be the reason for this?
A retention exception enabled for the restore point would prevent the automatic deletion of the backup data even after the retention period has expired. Retention exceptions are specific conditions set to keep certain backups longer than the general retention policy, which can explain why the backup persisted beyond 60 days.
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When it is scenario A, then one full backup would not be the only backup that remains undeleted.
I think it's C
https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/backup_job_advanced_maintenance_vm.html?ver=120 https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/retention_deleted_vms.html?ver=120
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sorry, A is correct, from the point of view of backups not deleted for a long time there is no difference between active and syntetic full backups.
Veeam Backup & Replication treats synthetic full backups as regular full backups. As well as any other full backup file, the synthetic full backup file resets the backup chain. All subsequent incremental backup files use the synthetic full backup file as a new starting point. A previously used full backup file remains on disk until it is automatically deleted according to the retention policy.