Retention Best Practices

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.