Backup Retention

[mblackmore]

Hi

I am wanting to verify our setup as i have recently made some changes and want to confirm.

I want to do the following

Run Daily backups and keep 7 days worth on disk at a time (on a local disk)
Run Monthly backups and keep 1 month on disk at a time (on a local disk)
Run Monthly backup copies and keep 3 months worth of backups at a time (on a remote NAS)
Run Monthly backup copies to tape (retention is based on media allocation)

So, These jobs are running, and appear to be working, but i am confused on the retention policies within the jobs.

I want to be able to do the following

Restore any days backup for atleast 1 months worth (I am assuming the daily backup job with 31 restore points works for this? or is there a better way)
Restore a monthly backup from disk or tape (montly running with 1 restore point), with the added bonus of 3 months being kepts on a NAS (monthly copy running with 3 restore points)

[foggy]

Michael, yes, seems that you simply need to change retention on your daily backup job to 31 to be able to restore to any day within the last month.