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Tuontiyhtio
Level 2
12 years ago

How to set up retention period for Backup Excec.cloud?

How can I change retention period for backed up files? Or the whole storage? I'm backing up database dump and it's created again every night. There is no point to save files older than 2 weeks as thi...
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  • CraigV's avatar
    CraigV
    12 years ago

    ...retention is set on the media set, so make sure your media set is configured to allow overwrites to happen on time.

    Thanks!

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CraigV
Moderator
12 years ago

...my bad, although I can definitely read it is about Backup Exec .Cloud, I was under the impression the basics were the same.

Best to open a query with Symantec directly then as this forum isn't very well frequented.

Thanks!