Full backup - new long-retention options

Forza

Hi!

I noticed there is a new retention option for the full backups. Very interesting and a long sought feature. How is this option supposed to be used with a backup schedule? Is the idea to schedule daily (or more frequent) backups, and then use the long-term retention options to prune backups so we do not have to keep so many?

EDIT: Found the blog post about it. Though, I do not understand if the long-term retention overrides the retention set in the schedule. The screenshot from the blog has retention 1, which seems contradictory to the intention?

olivierlambert

Question for @florent or @Bastien-Nollet

Bastien Nollet

Hi @Forza,

The long term retention is independent of the retention of the schedule: even with a backup retention of 1, the long-term retention will keep some backups separately.
Note that the LTR applies to every schedule, so it may be preferable to use it with a single schedule.

olivierlambert

Also adding @thomas-dkmt in case we need to update the doc to make it clearer

Forza

@Bastien-Nollet said in Full backup - new long-retention options:

Hi @Forza,

The long term retention is independent of the retention of the schedule: even with a backup retention of 1, the long-term retention will keep some backups separately.
Note that the LTR applies to every schedule, so it may be preferable to use it with a single schedule.

Thanks for the quick feedback. Does it mean that the schedule's own retention is also honored separately in addition to the LTR?

Bastien Nollet

@Forza said in Full backup - new long-retention options:

Thanks for the quick feedback. Does it mean that the schedule's own retention is also honored separately in addition to the LTR?

Yes, a backup is kept if it matches one of the retention criteria, either the schedule's retention or the LTR. (the backup is not duplicated, we just check for both criteria to know if we should keep the backup or not)