@Bastien-Nollet said in Full backup - new long-retention options:
@Forza As your backup tasks executes only once a week, the schedule retention is redundant with using "Number of weekly backups kept" of LTR.
If keeping the last 52 weekly backups of this job is what you want, I recommend you to set the schedule retention to 1, and the number of weekly backups kept to 52. This way, if you happen to execute this backup job manually (in addition to its schedule), it will not delete the oldest backups.
Thanks for the feedback. I included that difference (52 in the schedule and 12 in the LTR) on purpose in the screenshot because I wanted to know what takes presendece here, the 12 weeks, or 52 weeks.
I have not yet enabled LTR, but am considering it for this backup job so that I can keep 52 weeks, 24 months and 5 yearly.
Now I wonder if each dailym weekly, monthly and yearly option are sequential to the previous, or if all counts from 0?
Will it mean that I have:
year 1: 52 weekly
year 2: 12 monthly
year 3: 12 monthly
year 4: 1 yearly
year 5: 1 yearly
year 6: 1 yearly
year 7: 1 yearly
year 8: 1 yearly
Or will I get:
year 1: 52 weekly + 12 monthly + 1 yearly (at the end of year 1)
year 2: 12 monthly + 1 yearly
year 3: 1 yearly
year 4: 1 yearly
year 5: 1 yearly
