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H_Sharma's avatar
H_Sharma
Level 6
10 years ago

Retention Period

Hi Experts, Environment is as below. win 2008 Server with Master 7.6 We have 100 policies having retention period of 1 month so we were told to make the retetion periord to 1 year. So i was ...
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INT_RND's avatar
INT_RND
Level 6
10 years ago

1. You will have month tapes and year tapes. This is for offsite management. You don't want monthly images on a tape that is going offsite for a year. You also don't want year images on a tape that will come back onsite in one month.

2. User directed backups and manual backups will still run. The queue will continue to run. NBPEM calculates the next jobs that are needed to run and compares them with start windows. It contains the next few jobs scheduled to run. It might take a few minutes for the scheduling to actually stop. Hard to tell without seeing what you are talking about.

3. You can mix retention if you aren't worried about tape storage. You can also change the retention of old images. Depends on what your business needs are.