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Claudio_Veronez
Level 6
14 years ago

easy one, mssql retention schedule

hello, that maight be quiet simple. I have a mssql online policy  and  some schedules anual       - retention 5 years mensal   - retentinon 1 year semana  - retencion 3 ...
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  • Marianne's avatar
    Marianne
    14 years ago
    We treat database policies different to normal policies:
    We create different policies for the different requirements - one for daily, one for weekly, etc so that the application schedule can be assigned the correct retention.
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Marianne
Level 6
14 years ago

All of them will run against the same application schedule with that retention period - so you might as well have only one automatic schedule.

I have always wondered why Symantec has actually added a retention period for automatic schedules - it means nothing as far as image retention is concerned.

The manual says the following:

The retention period for an Application Backup Policy schedule refers to the length of time that NetBackup keeps backup images.

The retention period for an Automatic Backup schedule controls how long NetBackup keeps records of when scheduled backups have occurred.