Retention Rule Help

[ChrisParticipant]

I need to have 3 days of backups with a weekly backup not older than 4 weeks. So at any one time I’ll have 7 backups. 3 daily and 4 weekly. I am struggling to get this setup with the retention rules.

[ShaneParticipant]

I don’t think you can. The second rule says ‘for backups older than …’

If you are only keeping 3 backups then they will never make it to a week old as they are pruned every 4th day.

Keep 8 weekly backups and make your second rule to be backups older than 1 week, keep no more than 1 backup every 4 weeks and make your total number of backups 11 (7 weekly and 4 monthly)

[Dee NutbourneModerator]

Hi Chris,

You should be able to achieve what you need with the following settings:

[Daily] starting from the next time it is [XX:XX] and retain this many scheduled backups: [7]
For backups older than [3] [days] keep no more than 1 backup every [1] [week]
For backups older than [4] [weeks] keep no more than 1 backup every [52] [weeks]

Best Wishes,
David N

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