

Until now if you wanted to keepĪrchive data points each week, month, or year you would need to set up anĪdditional backup copy job or set your retention to span a lot higher than Is the GFS function being added to backup jobs. This means you can run a backup job multiple times a day and not have to do extra math for the number of restore points you would need to keep for the week or month. With day retention you can set the number days you would like to keep backups for and not worry if the job runs once on Tuesday and 30 times on Wednesday you will still have the proper number of days in retention.

For these cases here comes day retention to the rescue. The complication comes when you need the backup to run every two hours and have a window every other day between the hours of 1PM and 5PM where no backups are allowed to process or continuously running jobs when it is not always possible to predict the number of restore points produced every day. Traditional backups job retention has always run by the number of restore points produced and is a piece of cake estimating the number of restore points to keep if you run your backup job every day once a day.

Adding GFS to backup jobs to give you the.We are introducing day logic to retention to.In thisĪrticle we will cover the three new improvements related to making retention This product which includes over a 100 new and enhancement features. Our core product for 12 years and has remained our core product due to its continuousĪdaptations to the end user’s needs.
