Altaro set grandfather parent child (GFS) archiving

In addition to deleting all old versions , You can also choose to enable GFS The archive （ Site only ） To stay out of the retention policy Keep weekly 、 monthly And every year Backup .

In addition to your retention policy , Enable GFS After the filing ,Altaro VM The backup will remain ：

[XX] Week within week 1 Backup times [XX] Every month for a month 1 Backup times [XX] Every year 1 Backup times

The displayed time period is always calculated from the time of the last successful backup , The example figure is as follows ：

Enable GFS file

In order to enable GFS file , You can navigate to Retention Policy Screen to achieve . Please note that , This is enabled by policy , therefore , To do this , Please click the small pencil icon to modify the policy .

A pop-up window will open , Allows you to “ Archive schedule for backups older than the set retention policy ” Choose “ Archive old backups (GFS) ”, Then just click [ modify ]. As you can see , Weeks 、 Months and years are fully customizable ：

therefore , We will be in 1 Retain weekly after months of retention policy 、 Monthly and annual Backup .