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Retention Period

H_Sharma
Level 6

Hello Experts,

In my environment our policies are configured with 1 month retention period for media.

Now our client wants to do the retention periord to 1 year. So i have below questions.

1:- Should i change the retention period in each policy? Procedure?

2:- Any dos and donts for this?

3:- what are the prerequisite to change this?

4:- Any impact?

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Marianne
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Tell us more about schedules in the policies - do you have different schedules such as daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, etc?

Retention periods should reflect the recovery requirements of the data backed up on each client, not about recycling of tapes.

Before you change any schedules, ensure that you and the customer have the same understanding as far as retention and recovery needs are concerned.

You may want to request a separate form to be completed for each client, with a list of filesystems and/or databases, along with recovery needs (retention periods) for each of these drives/databases for daily, weekly, monthly, yearly backups.

When you have this data, you will need to change schedules in each policy. (One policy can be used for a group of clients with similar requirements and disk layout).

If you have Full and Incr schedules in policies, only make changes before a Full is due.
Ensure that Full and Incr schedules are in the same policy.

Increasing retention levels will increase media requirements. Ensure customer understands that.
NBU does not mix retention levels on same media, so, new/unassigned media will be needed to start writing new retention levels.

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Marianne
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Partner    VIP    Accredited Certified

Tell us more about schedules in the policies - do you have different schedules such as daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, etc?

Retention periods should reflect the recovery requirements of the data backed up on each client, not about recycling of tapes.

Before you change any schedules, ensure that you and the customer have the same understanding as far as retention and recovery needs are concerned.

You may want to request a separate form to be completed for each client, with a list of filesystems and/or databases, along with recovery needs (retention periods) for each of these drives/databases for daily, weekly, monthly, yearly backups.

When you have this data, you will need to change schedules in each policy. (One policy can be used for a group of clients with similar requirements and disk layout).

If you have Full and Incr schedules in policies, only make changes before a Full is due.
Ensure that Full and Incr schedules are in the same policy.

Increasing retention levels will increase media requirements. Ensure customer understands that.
NBU does not mix retention levels on same media, so, new/unassigned media will be needed to start writing new retention levels.