Retention question

[bbuchanan]

I'm still trying to wrap my head around this. I don't think the retention works the way I need it and I'm not sure how to get what I need.

We do daily backups keeping 30 days worth. Then for GFS we keep 26 weeks, 12 monthly, and 2 yearly. We have a requirement to keep backups for 2 years.

A user creates a file on Monday, deletes it the following Thursday. The weekly backup runs on Sunday and I think the file will disappear permanently 30 days after the Wednesday backup.

How can I keep that file the user created for 2 years? Is it even possible?

Thanks!

[PetrM]

Hi Brian,

Since a job does not create any special backups to follow the GFS policy but just assigns the corresponding flags to backups created during regular job runs, there is no option to keep such a file, it simply won't be included in any backup created after file deletion.

To keep different versions of the deleted files, you may try File Share backup with archived repository enabled, have a look at the last case on this page.

Thanks!