This allows for servers with different requirements to be added to the same estimation. Info - provides information on how to use the toolĪ workload defines a common set of requirements that need to be applied to a number of VMs or Agents (servers).Details - is where you can see an overview of all the workloads and a repository capacity breakdown.

Object - is where you can estimate object capacity and transaction costs.Workloads - is where workloads are added to the estimation.Dashboard - shows the results of the estimation.This site uses Just the Docs, a documentation theme for Jekyll. Restoring VMs to an HPE 3PAR with thin disks.Backup Repository HA using Windows Storage Replica.Weekly, monthly and yearly backups are also called archive backups. In the GFS retention policy, weekly backups are known as ‘sons’, monthly backups are known as ‘fathers’ and yearly backups are known as ‘grandfathers’. GFS is a tiered retention policy and it uses a number of cycles to retain backups for different periods of time: GFS backups are always full backup files that contain data of the whole machine image as of a specific date. When you configure the GFS retention, Veeam Backup & Replication creates weekly/monthly/yearly full backups, so instead of one backup chain consisting of one full backup and incremental backups, you will have several backup chains. Also, one corrupted increment can make the whole chain useless. Large number of subsequent incremental backups can increase recovery time, because Veeam Backup & Replication has to read data through the whole backup chain. The GFS retention also helps you to mitigate risks that the short-term retention policy has, such as large number of subsequent incremental backups. Depending on which flag is assigned to the full backup, it will be stored for specified number of weeks, months or years.

These GFS flags can be of three types: weekly, monthly or yearly.

For this purpose, Veeam Backup & Replication creates synthetic or active full backup files and marks them with GFS flags. The long-term or Grandfather-Father-Son (GFS) retention policy allows you to store VM backups for long periods of time - for weeks, months and years.

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