So, you will have retention points for less than 14 days. If you select 14 restore points and manually create off-schedule backups, there will be several restore points in one day. For example, you create a daily backup job and you want to store retention points for 14 calendar days. The daily retention policy can be helpful if you periodically create off-schedule backups. Days : Veeam Backup & Replication k eeps restore points created during the last N days, where N is the specified number of days.Restore points : Veeam Backup & Replication k eeps the last N restore points, where N is the specified number of restore points.In the Storage step of the New Backup Job wizard you can select the following units of retention policy. By default, Veeam Backup & Replication keeps restore points for the last 7 days. To define the retention policy for a backup job, you must specify the necessary number of restore points or days in the Retention policy field in the backup job settings. After the allowed number of restore points is exceeded, Veeam Backup & Replication applies the retention policy - so it removes the earliest restore point from the backup chain. The retention policy defines how many restore points you want to retain on disk and thus how ‘far’ you are able to roll back. To control the number of restore points in the backup chain, you must specify retention policy settings. Every successful backup job session creates a new restore point that lets you roll back VM data to an earlier point in time.

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