Configuring the backup retention policy
VDP offers a few ways to define the retention policy, which are as follows:
Forever
For a certain number of days, weeks, months, or years
Till the specified date
Custom schedule
Custom schedule includes:
Daily for a certain number of days, weeks, months, or years
Weekly for certain number of days, weeks, months, or years
Monthly for a certain number of days, weeks, months, or years
Yearly for a certain number of days, weeks, months ,or years
The difference between keeping backups for 60 days and doing daily retention for 60 days is that in the first case, backups older than 60 days will be deleted during the next backup job, while daily schedule will check and delete old backups daily.
How to do it...
To set the retention policy settings when a backup job is being created, edit the existing backup job by following these steps:
Select the job in the list.
Expand Backup Job Actions and choose Edit.
Click on Retention Policy on the left.
