Change default "Retention policy"

[BjarneWahl]

Hello!

I fail to figure out where to change the default "Retention policy" for Backup jobs.
The default is "7 retention points" but I want "10 days" to be the default.

I can't find anything in Veeam B&R and I can't find anything in regedit.

Any clues?

Thanks in advance

[Mildur]

Hi Bjarne

I checked our internal documentation and cannot find any registry key related to a global default retention.
May I ask, what is your goal in changing the default retention for new backup jobs to a higher value?

Thanks
Fabian

[foggy]

You can clone new jobs from the existing one having the required retention settings.

[BjarneWahl]

@Mildur:
The customer want 10 days worth of retention. Politics, you know
Scripted creation of a ton of regular backup jobs, and me trying to avoid a step or scripting.

Thanks so much for trying!

[Mildur]

Thanks for explaining.
Then you can use what Foggy recommended. Create a dummy Job with the required settings.
Read all job options from the dummy job to a variable and create the new jobs with the same options. If some jobs needs another configuration than the dummy job, change that options in the script for the specific jobs.

Or use Job Cloning from Powershell and then change the specific settings:
https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... ml?ver=110