Retention Policy

Retention policy defines the policies of persistent data management for meeting business data archival requirements.

When a backup job is performed, for data that are modified or deleted on your computer, the existing version on the backup storage (backed up previously) would be moved into retention area, while newly backed up file would be placed in the current data area.

Specifically, retention policy setting defines how long are these data kept within the retention area before they are deleted permanently from the backup storage.

For backed up data that have not been updated or deleted from your computer, they are kept in the data area on the backup storage and remain untouched.

The retention policy can be defined where retained file (in the retention area) are removed automatically after a user specified number of days or backup jobs.

To define a retention policy:

  1. Simply modify the drop down menu to your required days or jobs.
  2. Click on [Save] to save the settings.