Maximum Retention clarification

Quest-John · 2013-07-03T16:33:07.000Z

In UEB, under Retention Settings, is this warning:

“A maximum retention limit means that backups (and dependent backups) will be deleted once the Master/Full is older than this limit”

Does this mean that if I have a maximum of 30 days, after the master is 30 days old, it will be deleted and therefore a new master backup will occur, even if the backup is set to Incremental Forever?

katie-unitrends · 2013-07-03T17:02:23.000Z

John - Great questions! If you’re using an Incremental Forever schedule, UEB will build a synthetic full on your appliance, so you do not have to worry about it purging the initial full backup. If you are going with a more traditional, weekly full, daily differential schedule, and want a full backup on your local appliance, you will need to schedule a full before the end of the 30 days. Does that answer your question?

jaguar · 2013-07-03T17:03:05.000Z

One “set” will always be maintained, and an older synthesized master would be dropped, but you will always maintain one “set” capable getting you to today.

Quest-John · 2013-07-03T17:05:54.000Z

Thanks guys, perfect. (Well OK, Katie is not a guy but um ya know what I mean.)

katie-unitrends · 2013-07-03T17:06:38.000Z

I’m okay with being one of the guys! Happy to help!