Specifications

Backup retention policies can be created for different sets of data including virtual machines, data backed up by the Barracuda Backup Agent
(Exchange, SQL, Hyper-V, System State), and email messages. You can create one policy for all of the computers and data sources on
Barracuda Backup or create multiple policies for each data source. Use the BACKUP > Retention Policy page to define content retention rules:
- Enter an identifying name for the policyPolicy Name
- Displays all data sources on the selected Barracuda Backup Server. Select all of the items you want to include in theItems to Retain
retention policy.
- Define how historic data is retained.Retention Timeline
- Select from the pre-defined templates which you can modify, or create your own custom timeline. The Timeline Templates Re
and display the timeline based on the selected template.visions Timeline Retention Calendar
Revisions Timeline - Define how long to keep daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly backups.
Keep all revisions for - Specify the number of to keep all content revisions, or select or .day(s) never forever
Keep daily revisions for - Specify how long to keep daily revisions. Specify a number of , , or .day(s) never forever
Keep monthly revisions for - Specify how long to keep weekly revisions. Specify a number of , , or week(s) never forev
. Turn on to use Barracuda Offsite Vaulting.er offsite only
Keep yearly revisions for - Specify how long to keep yearly revisions. Specify a number of , , or .years(s) never forever
Turn on to use Barracuda Offsite Vaulting.offsite only
Items with no retention policy are retained forever on the local appliance.
Data backed up using the treats Sunday as the end of week in accordance with the ISO dateBarracuda Backup Agent
standard. Data backed up using a NAS protocol considers weeks as seven day periods beginning each month.
Local and Offsite Revision Storage
Local and offsite means that revisions are stored both on the physical Barracuda Backup appliance and in
Barracuda's Cloud Storage or to another Barracuda Backup Server. Set this value based on your business
requirements. Keeping revisions can affect your cloud storage requirements.forever
This features allows you to keep revisions when you have multiple backups per day. For example, you back
up your SQL Server hourly for 5 days giving you 120 revisions.
Offsite Vaulting
Offsite vaulting leverages Barracuda's replication technology to offload up to twelve monthly and seven yearly
revisions to an offsite location, freeing up disk space on your local Barracuda Backup Server. This feature
maintains your organization's compliance with long retention policies, allowing you to save more daily and
weekly revisions. Note that offsite vaulting is available for both Barracuda Cloud and box-to-box replication. Fo
r more information, see .Understanding Barracuda Offsite Vaulting