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Retention policies

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Four ways to keep backups

Section titled “Four ways to keep backups”

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Keep the newest of each hour, day, week, month and year - e.g. 7 days, 4 weeks, 12 months.

Count

Keep the newest N restore points.

Age

Keep N days - counted from the newest backup, so if backups stop the last good ones stay.

Forever

Nothing is pruned; restore points go only when somebody deletes them.

Create a policy

Section titled “Create a policy”

  1. Open Storage › Retention policies and click New policy

  2. Name it and choose the Mode, then fill in the numbers

    In GFS each rule counts only the periods the rules before it left: 7 days and 4 weeks keep seven days, then four older weeks.

  3. Set the safety nets

    • Never fewer than - a floor: the newest N always stay, whatever the rules say.

    • Always keep the newest restore point a restore proved good.

    • Object-lock days - written with each artifact where the target locks objects.

  4. Pick a plan in Preview on plan

    The editor shows which of that plan’s restore points would be kept or removed, and why, as you change the numbers.

  5. Save, then choose the policy in each plan’s Storage & Retention step

A GFS policy: 7 days, 4 weeks and 12 months, never fewer than one restore point
A GFS policy: 7 days, 4 weeks and 12 months, never fewer than one restore point

What happens next

Section titled “What happens next”
What the hourly retention pass does
What the hourly retention pass does
  • Retention weighs every plan hourly. What it lets go is marked and deleted a day later.
  • The blast-radius guard stops a prune that would remove too much at once, and tells you. The preview offers Allow this prune… to let it through deliberately.
  • Pinned, held and locked restore points stay whatever happens.
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