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Purpose: 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.

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.

Optional: Click the "Save as Default" button before clicking the "OK" button to make this default behavior for new backup jobs.

Description Status Value
Keep Weekly Full Backups Enabled 4
Keep Monthly Full Backups Enabled 3
Keep Yearly Full Backups Enabled 1 (3 - 7 for Medical HIPAA)

!!! note "7 Daily Backups Assumption" 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.

**7 daily, 4 weekly, 3 monthly, and 1 yearly**