Need some guidance about configuring CommVault to retain backup data for a given customer for up to 5 years (especially for deleted and/or modified files).
Use the Basic Retention Rule for All Backups field? How? Set up number of days to 1825 days and keep 1 cycle? Keep 30 at number of days and set to cycles to 60 etc?
Or…
Use the “Extend storage policy retention” option with Retention mode: Object Based Retention.
Schedule Policy: 1 Synthetic Full every month and Incremental every day.
Best answer by SparshGupta
If the intention is to retain deleted items for 5 years, Object based retention is the correct approach.
Today, if object based retention is not utilized, synthetic full job will drop the deleted items instead of carrying it forward to next cycle. If previous jobs qualifies for data aging, as per retention rules and gets aged, then you won’t be able to restore data from such jobs.
Thanks,
Sparsh
+10
If the intention is to retain deleted items for 5 years, Object based retention is the correct approach.
Today, if object based retention is not utilized, synthetic full job will drop the deleted items instead of carrying it forward to next cycle. If previous jobs qualifies for data aging, as per retention rules and gets aged, then you won’t be able to restore data from such jobs.
Thanks,
Sparsh
+18Agree, using Object Retention is what you want. There’s no need to extend the retention for everything to 5 years just to keep the deleted items around. This is certainly a very underutilized capability which can be very handy.
Thanks,
Scott
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