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<main> <article class="userContent"> <h2 data-id="summary"><strong>SUMMARY</strong></h2> <p>Define how many backups to keep for a Virtual Machine</p> <h2 data-id="issue"><strong>ISSUE</strong></h2> <p></p> <p>This article applies to Unitrends Virtual Backup 8.0 (formerly PHDVirtual). <br>For information on retention settings for Unitrends Enterprise backup, or Recovery Series appliances, see NOTES section below.</p> <p><br>The retention policy lets you define how many backups to keep for a particular virtual machine. Assigning the right policy will ensure you meet your recovery objectives and also help to reduce overall storage costs.</p> <p>UVB lets you select from a Typical retention policy, no retention (keep all backups), or you can create your own custom policy. Each policy is described below.</p> <p><span style="font-size: small;">By default, retention runs after each backup job completes, and also daily at 04:42 GMT. This time can be changed by accessing the presentation VBA's virtual machine console via the hypervisor client. After logging in to the VBA's console, select <strong>System</strong> <strong>Jobs</strong> <strong>></strong> <strong>Retention</strong> to adjust the time. You will need to adjust the retention time on each VBA connected to a backup data store.</span></p> <p> </p> <p>Typical</p> <p>The default Retention Policy for each VM is Typical. When creating Virtual Full backups, this ensures that the last 5 most recent backups for each VM are retained and in addition, the most recent backup from each of the last 7 days, 4 weeks, 12 months, and 5 years is also retained. The Typical setting will result in 21 unique Virtual Full backups for each virtual machine after one year.</p> <p>When creating Full/Incremental backups, Typical will keep the last 3 backup chains (a backup chain consists of the initial Full backup and all subsequent Incremental backups until the next Full). Therefore, if your Full/Incremental backup job creates one full per week, the Typical Retention policy will keep 3 weeks of backups for each VM.</p> <p> </p> <p>Keep All</p> <p>The Keep All retention policy prevents all backups from being deleted. When set to Keep All, all Virtual Full Retention options are disabled.</p> <p> </p> <p>Custom</p> <p>Custom Retention is a non-policy version that allows for adjustments in the number values. This can be done through the <strong>Manage Retention Policies</strong> dialog or by using the <strong>View</strong><strong>/</strong><strong>Edit VM Settings</strong> dialog. Both are located on <strong>Inventory</strong> tab of the <strong>Protect</strong> page. Custom retention allows you to change the number of backups to retain per VM including, recent backups, and 1 from the last x number of days, weeks, months, and years. Custom retention can be created and managed at the VM or Archive Storage level.</p> <p> </p> <p>Archive</p> <p>Retention policies for Archive data stores are configured at the storage level (as opposed to backup retention which is configured at the VM level). Archive data store retention is per-storage target and configured in the <strong>Edit Storage</strong> dialog.</p> <h2 data-id="notes"><strong>NOTES</strong></h2> <p></p> <p>This article applies to Unitrends Virtual Backup 8.0 (formerly PHDVirtual). <br><br>For information on retention settings for <b>Unitrends Backup</b> (UB or UEB), or <b>Recovery-Series</b> appliances, see NOTES section below.this KB instead: <a rel="nofollow" href="/home/leaving?allowTrusted=1&target=https%3A%2F%2Funitrends-support.zendesk.com%2Fhc%2Fen-us%2Farticles%2F360013175637">https://unitrends-support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360013175637</a> </p> </article> </main>