Backup retention

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Backup retention

Siva 736

Hi Team,

If i have changed the retention by accidentally as less, and saved. it will affect immediately to all the old recovery points.
Do we have any other cleaning jobs are there like data aging? when it will remove the old recovery points in azure?

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Manu Philip 20,651 MVP Volunteer Moderator

You might need to extend or reduce retention duration. When you do so, you can expect the following:

If retention is extended, existing recovery points are marked and kept in accordance with the new policy.
If retention is reduced, recovery points are marked for pruning in the next clean-up job, and subsequently deleted.
The latest retention rules apply for all retention points (excluding on-demand retention points). So if the retention period is extended (for example to 100 days), then when the backup is taken, followed by retention reduction (for example from 100 days to seven days), all backup data will be retained according to the last specified retention period (that is, 7 days).

In general, you may try to revert the retention days back for a try (as the clean up is happening during the next cycle)

Siva 736 Reputation points

2021-12-01T05:02:29.74+00:00

Hi ManuPhilip,

When the pruning will happen in normal? do we have any specific article for this pruning process?

Next cycle it will pruning the aged data,- when the next cycle will happen?
Sadiqh Ahmed 49,571 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator

2021-12-02T11:13:46.827+00:00

@Siva We have a cleanup job that runs every 24 hours, the frequency is not mentioned in public doc but we do have a mention on cleanup job which takes care of pruning backups.

Ref doc: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/backup/backup-azure-vm-backup-faq#what-happens-if-i-modify-a-backup-policy

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Siva 736 Reputation points

2021-12-06T16:19:57.463+00:00

Hi SadiqhAhmed-MSFT ,

Last question is-If we get the time lines of cleaning process, it will be good for understanding the process.
Sadiqh Ahmed 49,571 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator

2021-12-07T07:26:57.297+00:00

Appreciate your valuable feedback on that. Kindly use the doc - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/backup/backup-azure-vm-backup-faq#what-happens-if-i-modify-a-backup-policy feedback section to share that feedback with the content owner/product team.

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