What is a Backup Retention Policy

A Backup Retention

1. The duration of time we keep any and all backups for.

Example: You implement automated offsite backups  because of your organisations continuity meeting. 
You wish to be able to recover Data or the entire system at any backed up interval for 6 months.
This would allow you to get back that document that was edited by accident and not picked up for 5 weeks.

You must also consider your company consolidation policy when thinking about this.
E.G.: At what stage do you wish to take your daily images and consolidate them into a weekly recovery point.

 

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