retention period

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What is the retention period for Annual backup
Dear Support, What is the retention period I need to set for my Yearly backup to Tape. (Media set propeties please see the screenshot attached). Retention perid/ overwrite protection period / Append period. Please note this a one time backup only. Backup to Tape drive (LTO6) The purpose of this backup is to keep every year a copy of that year's backup in a seperate LTO Tape. (This is not going to overwrite). This is only for future use in case management needed any files from previous years. I need a proper retention policy to keep for these kind of backups. Thank you.
pts242
6 years ago Place Backup Exec
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Backup retention period questions
I have a question regarding the backup retention period and restoration. Before i go to my question, please help me to elaborate the scenario that i give below. Let's say my daily incremental backup set to 2 weeks and the weekly full backup set to 3 months. Daily backup: -------------------- 1 Oct 18 ---- retention 2 weeks -----> 15 Oct 18 2 Oct 18 ---- retention 2 weeks -----> 16 Oct 18 3 Oct 18 ---- retention 2 weeks -----> 17 Oct 18 4 Oct 18 ---- retention 2 weeks -----> 18 Oct 18 5 Oct 18 ---- retention 2 weeks -----> 19 Oct 18 6 Oct 18 ---- retention 3 months ----> 6 Jan 19 One day on 27 Oct 18, a user report that his file was missing after 2 Oct 18 and request to restore it. Which mean his file still available before 2 Oct or 1 Oct, but the 1 Oct 18 daily backup image already expired. Is the backup engineer still able to find the missing file and restore it? What my question here is when 6 Oct 18 start a full backup, will it backup the 1 Oct missing file also? or it will only backup the latest state like 5 Oct. Hope anyone here can understand my question. Thank you.
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Junz
7 years ago Place NetBackup
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Changing retention category from Forever to 3 years
Good Morning, Over the weekend we changed our retention period for Exchange archiving from Forever to 3 years. We noticed so far it has deleted over 8 million items but the disk space has not gone down? Does anyone know when will the disk space go down? Also is there any idea on how to check how many items are left to be deleted? Thanks,
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MRWALLEYE
7 years ago Place Enterprise Vault
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To change The Retention Period of GRT backups from one week to one month
hello i took symantec support for changing my Exchange GRT retention time, as we have accidently given 1 week retention time to our weekly full GRT Exchange backup on disk Then we Symantec engineer change this to one month . My environment was Netbackup Master server 7.5.0.2 Netbackup Client (Exchange 2010) version 7.5.0.2
inn_kam
12 years ago Place Enterprise Data Services Community Blog
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