Extended retention on S3 capacity tier?

[shaharr]

Hi.
we want to switch from tape backups to cloud and i think im missing the option - how can i configure extended retention on S3 tier?
for example - i have daily backup with 14 restore points. i wish only weekly restore point to be archived on S3 for x day and monthly restore point for y days.
if i would use tapes i would just have 2 media sets.

how can i configure something like that for the cloud?

thanks,

[wishr]

Hi Shahar,

Capacity Tier inherits the retention from jobs themselves, so you need to configure GFS Copy Jobs according to your needs, point them to a SOBR with Capacity Tier and you are good.

Thanks

[shaharr]

thanks for the replay.

so in order to use GFS i need to use Copy job, and in order to use copy job i need to setup another local backup repository for the staging area since i cannot write directly to the S3 storage... that could take some space for the full backups.

so in addition to buying S3 space, i need to add local storage for 1 full backup copy.

[Gostev]

In v10, primary backup jobs support GFS retention too.

[shaharr]

one more reason to wait for v10

thanks all