Duplicati Retention Policy, which do YOU choose?

[JasGot]

The options are:
Keep all backups
Delete Backups older than
Keep a Specific number of backups
Smart backup retention
Custom

Which do you use and why? I am interested in your choice and why you choose it.

[DustinB3403]

@JasGot said in Duplicati Retention Policy, which do YOU choose?:

The options are:
Keep all backups
Delete Backups older than
Keep a Specific number of backups
Smart backup retention
Custom

Which do you use and why? I am interested in your choice and why you choose it.

This is purely dependant on your needs

[JasGot]

@DustinB3403 said in Duplicati Retention Policy, which do YOU choose?:

@JasGot said in Duplicati Retention Policy, which do YOU choose?:

The options are:
Keep all backups
Delete Backups older than
Keep a Specific number of backups
Smart backup retention
Custom

Which do you use and why? I am interested in your choice and why you choose it.

This is purely dependant on your needs

No kidding.

[nadnerB]

Depends on legal retention requirements.
Some of our stuff needs to be kept indefinately, other stuff for 7 years, and others are decided by the business.

[IRJ]

@JasGot said in Duplicati Retention Policy, which do YOU choose?:

The options are:
Keep all backups
Delete Backups older than
Keep a Specific number of backups
Smart backup retention
Custom

Which do you use and why? I am interested in your choice and why you choose it.

Generally NO longer than legally required. Unless the legal requirement is something really lax. You generally dont want to keep data for longer than 7 years in any circumstance where there is no legal requirement, because you can become legally obligated to share data in a court case or something of that sort.

[scottalanmiller]

@IRJ said in Duplicati Retention Policy, which do YOU choose?:

@JasGot said in Duplicati Retention Policy, which do YOU choose?:

The options are:
Keep all backups
Delete Backups older than
Keep a Specific number of backups
Smart backup retention
Custom

Which do you use and why? I am interested in your choice and why you choose it.

Generally NO longer than legally required. Unless the legal requirement is something really lax. You generally dont want to keep data for longer than 7 years in any circumstance where there is no legal requirement, because you can become legally obligated to share data in a court case or something of that sort.

Exactly. Desired retention is more like 6 months. Only legal requirements make us go longer.