Retention policy-Days

[llewke]

Dear all,

I need help with understanding the "retention" policy.

So far we were using "restore points" and we want to change these settings to "days".

We modified our job to 3 "days"; however, despite the fact that the job had the last run 9 days ago we still find backup files in the "Backup Repository" with 2 restore points.

This specific job is a monthly job that runs once per month and is followed by tape backup, so, we don't need to keep it on the server's disk for more than 3 days.

Thank you in advance.
Lukas

[Gostev]

Hi, Lukas. Please note that for backups belonging to the existing job, the retention policy is applied at the end of each job run. In other words, don't expect your backups to be removed in those 9 days when the monthly job was not running. As for why the retention policy did not apply correctly during the last run, you should investigate this with our support - debug logs will have the answer. Thanks!

[Andreas Neufert]

You need to check if the backup files depend on each other in the chain and therefore can not be deleted?

For example if you use Synthetic Full + Incremental.