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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.
!!! info "Example Retention Policy" This is the recorded policy example and its assumptions. Select retention for the actual workload and recovery requirements before applying these values.
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**
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