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15 lines
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**Purpose**:
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This is meant as a high-level generally-speaking best practice retention policy in most use-cases. This document will generally be pretty bare-bones, but the general idea is the following advanced GFS retention period is generally configured on backup copy jobs, specifically ones that have off-site backups, but can also be used for local backup repositories.
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Navigate to Jobs > Backup (or Backup Copy) > (Find a Backup Job) > Right-Click > Edit > Storage (or Target) > "**Keep Certain Full Backups for Archival Purposes**: Checked" > Click on the "**Configure**" button.
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Optional: Click the "**Save as Default**" button before clicking the "**OK**" button to make this default behavior for new backup jobs.
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| **Description** | **Status** | **Value** |
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| :--- | :--- | :--- |
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| Keep Weekly Full Backups | Enabled | 4 |
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| Keep Monthly Full Backups | Enabled | 3 |
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| Keep Yearly Full Backups | Enabled | 1 (`3 - 7 for Medical HIPAA`) |
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!!! note "7 Daily Backups Assumption"
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This document assumes that you at (least) keep 7 daily backups in the normal backup schedule. Meaning **7 daily, 4 weekly, 3 monthly, and 1 yearly** backup is maintained at all times. |