Veeam - Tape backups

[mrbios]

Struggling to get Veeam to do what i want it to do.

 

I've got multiple VM backup jobs, they're set to do a full backup once a month and incrementals in between, with varying numbers of incrementals depending on how important a particular VM is, up to 30.

 

I think backup everything to tape every Friday evening. What i want from the tape backups is to take the Full backup + incrementals, every time a tape backup takes place. However what I'm getting is that it either backs up just the full backup file and not the incrementals, or just the incrementals and now the last full backup.

 

For example if i do a full backup on Monday, tell it to store 5 incrementals and i do a tape backup on Friday it'll backup the Full from Monday but not the incrementals. Then the next tape backup will backup only the incrementals, so i end up with two sets of tapes that i'd need to restore from, why can't i tell the backups to always keep a copy of the full on every tape, along with associated incrementals?