Currently we have our MRR Backups set to have a monthly Full set to be stored for 2557 days, which is 7 years. This used to be the way we stored tapes but I feel that we need to change our thinking, as our system has 7 years of data and we did a full when we switched over to MRR which was uploaded. So for our Company Policy in theory every monthly full has 7 years worth of data. So at most I would think saving a year on the cloud is fine. It would keep us safe from most issues unless something sits for a year without being found or triggered. Long way to get to my question. If I change our extended retention from 7 years to 1 year will it need to run a new Full Backup and reupload everything again or will that first backup we seeded at the start will just be there and all the other backups will just age out after they hit 1 year? I really hope that makes sense, it does in my head. Thanks for any info.
MRR Cloud Backup Retention Date Change
+6Best answer by Damian Andre
I don’t quite understand this:
So for our Company Policy in theory every monthly full has 7 years worth of data
I’m guessing you mean that the source application has 7 years worth of data on it that is captured with each full backup?
If you lower your retention to 1 year, the next data aging job will calculate which jobs older than 1 year can be pruned from your backup history and will immediately go to work purging that data. No new job needs to be run to start that process.
Please take care when lowing retention, that data will be unrecoverable!
+23- Vaulter
I don’t quite understand this:
So for our Company Policy in theory every monthly full has 7 years worth of data
I’m guessing you mean that the source application has 7 years worth of data on it that is captured with each full backup?
If you lower your retention to 1 year, the next data aging job will calculate which jobs older than 1 year can be pruned from your backup history and will immediately go to work purging that data. No new job needs to be run to start that process.
Please take care when lowing retention, that data will be unrecoverable!
+6Yes sorry should have said its on our Source. We haven’t hit the 1 year mark yet with our MRR backups so I want to get this squared away before we do hit it. Thank you for the answer. Since things never run fast it may be another year before I get the ok to do it anyway lol
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