echo dew
It seems you can not setup GFS support for NAS backups in Veeam.
eg.
Keep Weekly Full for 4 weeks
Keep Monthly Full for 12 months
Keep Yearly full for 5 years
When you setup a NAS job all you have is an option to
Keep all versions for the last XXX Days
How are people keeping long term CIFS/NAS data in Veeam ?
hollow pelican
I am assuming you are using Veeam to backup data from other systems that have data not on the NetApp, to a SMB or NFS share on the NetApp, otherwise you would use integration to have Veeam control snapshots. If my assumption is correct, you have two options: 1) Move your data to a different repository that support GFS functionality. 2) Create backup copy jobs, each with different retention periods, to mimic GFS functionality manually.
tepid sand
ONTAP customers typically don't use Veeam to protect their NAS data. For CIFS or NFS workloads (apart from VMware NFS), most customers just use ONTAP itself to protect the data via local snapshot policies and snapmirror to another system; no need for something like Veeam to get involved.
Veeam is great for VMware backups, and their ONTAP Integration with that is outstanding. best on the market in my own opinion (not a NetApp statement). But their NAS intergration is ... well ... not to the same standard.
echo dew
@tepid sand A log of our customers are at the smaller end of town so most have say 1 or 2 clusters (aff or fas) and all have Veeam. The reason for Veeam is to tick the offsite requirement for NAS data. I did get confirmation that from V13 of Veeam they have improved the NAS backups a lot. If NetApp allowed us to use 3rd party Object Storage (eg Wasabi) and that integrates with BlueXP or ONTAP that would be the perfect solution for smaller companies and then we can easily use Cloud Backup