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Backup retention - GFS

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Hi,

Looking for guidance on how to configure this backup strategy;

Daily backup; 7 restore points
Weekly copy; 4 restore points
Monthly copy; 3 restore points
Quarterly; 4 restore points
Yearly; 1 restore point.

I'm fine with the daily backup. I've set that to run every day and keep 7 restore points.

Just not sure how i set the GFS retention on the copy jobs. Do I set the copy job to run every 7 days, reduce the restore points to the minimum (2) then set restore points accordingly (Weekly - 4, Monthly - 3, Quarterly - 4, Yearly - 1)?

I'm confused by the 'restore points to keep' option and how this impacts my aim of a GFS retention policy.

Any guidance of what I should configure in the jobs would be appreciated!

Thanks,
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Re: Backup retention - GFS

Post by DGrinev »

Hi Chris and welcome to the community!

Your setup looks fine, but I'd recommend you to set simple retention of the copy job to 2 and interval to 24 hours (daily).
This way you will get 2 restore points by the copy job that will move through the week and produce archival copies every week, month and so on according to your GFS retention. Thanks!
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Re: Backup retention - GFS

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The main point here is that the 'restore points to keep' option does not impact the GFS retention, it is a regular backup copy job retention setting.
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