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BKPEXEAdmin's avatar
BKPEXEAdmin
Level 3
8 days ago

NBU v10 retention

Hi folks,

 

What is the right way to set the retention in NBU 10 ? Policy Schedules or SLPs ? It is a bit confusing, what's the point of having both two ?

If I set a specific retention in a Policy Schedule and then assign the ''Policy storage'' to my SLP. Which one is taken into consideration ?

Kind regards.

 

NBU 10.0.0.1
Policy
Retention
SLP
  • davidmoline's avatar
    davidmoline
    8 days ago

    Hi BKPEXEAdmin 

    The retention settings in the SLP will take precedence. Once you set an SLP for a policy or schedule the retention settings in the schedule should grey out and are not used. 

    The right way is what suits your environment - if you use SLP's, the the retention is set there and not in the schedule. Note also that SLP's give you the ability to have different retentions based on where the backup is stored. 

    The reason for both to to provide flexibility (and also I guess historical artifact). Not everyone wants or needs to use a SLP for every schedule (and in the distant past SLP's did not exist).

    Cheers

  • tcsimerson's avatar
    tcsimerson
    Level 3
    7 days ago

    When I was setting up systems for customers, I would always use SLPs even if you don't need them, i.e., only sending to a single storage target.  It make administration easier because you won't need to look in every policy to see what the retention is.  All that info will be in the SLPs.

  • davidmoline's avatar
    davidmoline
    Level 6
    8 days ago

    Hi BKPEXEAdmin 

    The retention settings in the SLP will take precedence. Once you set an SLP for a policy or schedule the retention settings in the schedule should grey out and are not used. 

    The right way is what suits your environment - if you use SLP's, the the retention is set there and not in the schedule. Note also that SLP's give you the ability to have different retentions based on where the backup is stored. 

    The reason for both to to provide flexibility (and also I guess historical artifact). Not everyone wants or needs to use a SLP for every schedule (and in the distant past SLP's did not exist).

    Cheers

    • BKPEXEAdmin's avatar
      BKPEXEAdmin
      Level 3
      7 days ago

      Hi Dadvid,

      Thanks for the quick feedback.

      Just to make sure, so if I set the retention in my Schdule, it is only applied if I set as a storage destination a Storage Unit ? If it is an SLP, its retention is automatically taken into consideration over the Schedule one ?

      Thank you,
      Regards.

      • davidmoline's avatar
        davidmoline
        Level 6
        7 days ago

        Hi BKPEXEAdmin 

        That is correct - if an SLP is attached to a schedule it will override existing retention/storage unit settings.

        David