Reduce retention policy from 14 days to 7 days

[eldonlck]

Dear all,

I have changed a backup jobs retention policy from 14 days to 7 days with GFS: 2 Weekly. The job will runs 12am every night.

if the job is run successfully next time, will the job's backup size and its restore points be reduced?

[HannesK]

Hello,
and welcome to the forums.

Short answer: probably yes
Why "probably": If the backup chain is longer than the 7 + whatever number of days is needed to satisfy the 7 days, then yes. Remember that dependent backups must be retained until not needed anymore. See animation of forward incremental with periodic fulls (needed for your GFS)

Best regards,
Hannes