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    Default Retention Policy

    • Summary:Description of the Default Retention Policy section on the Settings tab in the Management Console of the Cloud Failover Appliance.
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    Overview

    Default Retention Policy section allows you to configure the default global retention settings for all newly added clients, both physical and virtual.

    You can adjust the default retention settings for the primary Cloud Failover Appliance (CFA), as well as for the respective cloud secondary CFA, if available.

    Default Retention Policy section

    Retention settings for file and folder backups

    These allow specifying the default periods to store the File & Folder backups on the CFA.

    The following retention settings are available:

    Setting Available options Default value
    Full seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, quarters, years 3 months
    Differential seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, quarters, years 3 months
    Incremental seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, quarters, years 3 months

    Retention settings for DR image backups

    These allow specifying the default periods to store the DR image backups on the CFA. You can select from the predefined values or to enter the desired ones.

    The following retention settings are available:

    Setting Predefined values Default value
    Keep all backups for X days 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 14, 21, 30 7
    Keep last backup of the day for X week(s) 0, 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 14 4
    Keep last backup of the week for X month(s) 0, 1, 3, 6, 12 6
    Keep last backup of the month for X year(s) 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 100 1

    The system records the last successful backup in a day, in a week, and in a month, and keep it for the given period of time.

    Retention settings for VM backups

    These allow specifying the default periods to store the VM backups (VMware and Hyper-V) on the CFA. You can select from the predefined values or to enter the desired ones.

    The following retention settings are available:

    Setting Predefined values Default value
    Keep all backups for X days 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 14, 21, 30 7
    Keep last backup of the day for X week(s) 0, 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 14 4
    Keep last backup of the week for X month(s) 0, 1, 3, 6, 12 6
    Keep last backup of the month for X year(s) 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 100 1

    The system records the last successful backup in a day, in a week, and in a month, and keep it for the given period of time.