Basic Retention

Basic retention helps you either to choose the number of incremental versions that should be retained or the number of days an incremental recovery point should be retained.

Version Based Retention: If you are selecting the version-based retention for the incremental backups, then you have to specify the number of versions to be retained. You can select from 1 to 999 versions.

Note: For example, if you configure hourly incremental backups and select ‘10 versions’ to retain, BDRSuite Backup Server will retain only the last 10 hours of recovery points of the backed-up machine.

Day Based Retention: If you are selecting the day-based retention for the incremental backups, then you have to specify the number of days an incremental recovery point should be retained, and also the minimum number of incremental versions to be retained. All the incremental points will be retained if the minimum specified incremental version count does not exceed within the retention time period.

Note: For example, if you configure hourly incremental backups and select to retain 10 days of incremental recovery points & 10 versions, BDRSuite Backup Server will try to retain the last 10 days of recovery points of the backed-up machine. In case, if the incremental recovery points exceed the specified minimum version count of 10, then older recovery points are automatically removed even within the 10 days of the selected period.

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