Step 6: Retention

  • During backup, BDRSuite Backup for AWS takes a snapshot of the target EC2 instances at the scheduled time using Amazon APIs. The snapshots are stored in the same AWS Account and Region of the target EC2 instances.

  • Each time a snapshot is taken, it corresponds to a restore point (i.e.) a point-in-time from which the backed-up instance can be recovered. With BDRSuite Backup for AWS, you can retain up to 10 snapshots of each target EC2 instance that you backup.

  • If you set a retention limit of 5 snapshots, then if the backup job is running for the 6th time in its schedule, the oldest snapshot will be deleted to retain only 5 latest snapshots of the target instance.

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