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If Mozzie Backup finds that you have deleted a file (or updated a file) on your computer, it will put the corresponding deleted (or updated) file already backed up on the backup server into a retention area. The retention policy setting defines how long files inside the retention area are to be kept on the backup server before they are deleted automatically from the server.

Retention policy only affects “retained” files (i.e. files that have already been deleted or updated on your computer and thus are moved to the retention area of the backup server). For those files that have not been updated on your computer, the backup of these files is kept in the data area on the backup server and won’t be affected by the setting of retention policy.  Backup of unchanged files stay on the backup server forever until the original files are removed (or updated) on your computer.

Standard Retention Policy

The standard retention policy deletes retained files automatically after a User defined number of days (default 7 days) or after a User defined number of backup Jobs. To change the retention policy setting of any backup set, please select the [Retention Policy] dialog on the left panel. You can make changes to your retention policy under the [Retention Policy] section. After you have made your changes, just press the [OK] button to save.

Advanced Retention Policy

The [Advanced] retention policy allows you to configure a more flexible retention policy. It allows you to keep a set of snapshots of all backup files based on the time of the backup Jobs. For example, you can configure the advanced retention policy to keep the following sets of backup files to mimic the retention policy of the old days when you were still doing tape rotations:

To enable each of the above, you need to setup your advanced retention policy as follows:

These are some examples of using Retention Policys.