How to set retention period in the SysCloud backup application?
Follow these steps to set the retention period for a backup job in the SysCloud application.
Steps
- Log in to the SysCloud backup application using your admin credentials.
- Go to Jobs.
- Open the Google Workspace backup job for which you want to set the retention period.
- From the side tray, click on Edit to open the job in edit mode
- Go to the Select apps step. In the Apps section, click the edit icon.
- In the Retention period column, choose one of the following options:
- Keep Unlimited selected to retain backed-up data without a defined retention limit.
- Uncheck Unlimited to set a custom retention period.
- If you are setting a custom retention period, enter the required value and select the retention unit, such as days, months, or years. Click Confirm.
- Click Next to go to Configure settings step.
- Click Next to go to Configure add-ons step.
- If no add-ons are required to be configured, Click Next to go to Define action flows step.
- On the Define action flows step, Click on Start Backup to save the job and start the backup.
The retention period determines how long backed-up items are retained in SysCloud. Items older than the configured retention period are not retained in the backup archive.