From a8e51e8febf6ef8d1f2f38027270502842e1b71b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: kuro68k Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2022 10:23:26 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Improved explanation of retention options --- docs/03-using-the-graphical-user-interface.md | 19 ++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/03-using-the-graphical-user-interface.md b/docs/03-using-the-graphical-user-interface.md index 2132719..7227782 100644 --- a/docs/03-using-the-graphical-user-interface.md +++ b/docs/03-using-the-graphical-user-interface.md @@ -188,12 +188,25 @@ An Upload Volume is an encrypted compressed file that contains a part of your ba The retention can be set in 3 ways: -* **Unlimited:** +* **Keep all backups:** Backups will never be deleted. This is the most safe option, but remote storage capacity will keep increasing. -* **Until they are older than:** +* **Delete backups that are older than:** Backups older than a specified number of days, weeks, months or years will be deleted. -* **A specific number:** +* **Keep a specific number of backups:** The specified number of backup versions will be kept, all older backups will be deleted. +* **Custom backup retention:** +Enter your own settings in the text box that appears. +* **Smart backup retention:** +retains one backup for each of the last 7 days, each of the last 4 weeks, and each of the last 12 months. + +Consider the case of Smart Backup Retention. Using Duplicati notation it can be written as '1W:1D,4W:1W,12M:1M'. This results in this behaviour: + +**Active files:** Files that exist in the source will continue to be included in at least one backup version. For example, a file that exists in the source but which is 3 years old will still be in at least one backup version, regardless of the rentention policy. + +**Deleted files:** When a file is deleted from the source it will not be included in any new backups. Old backup versions will retain a copy of the deleted file for at least 12 months. After 12 months the last backup version to include it will eventually be removed. + +**Modified files:** When a file's content changes, previous versions will follow the backup retention policy. In other words, there will be a maximum of one version per day for the last week, one version per week for the last 4 weeks, and one version per month for the last 12 months. A daily version that ages to over a week old will either be retained as that week's version, or deleted. + ![](ss_newbackup_10.png) From 1a341d33e8b5d07c051e803623644121a0b287a5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: kuro68k Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2022 10:25:28 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] 5 options now --- docs/03-using-the-graphical-user-interface.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/03-using-the-graphical-user-interface.md b/docs/03-using-the-graphical-user-interface.md index 7227782..606ebcd 100644 --- a/docs/03-using-the-graphical-user-interface.md +++ b/docs/03-using-the-graphical-user-interface.md @@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ An Upload Volume is an encrypted compressed file that contains a part of your ba ***** -The retention can be set in 3 ways: +The retention can be set in 5 ways: * **Keep all backups:** Backups will never be deleted. This is the most safe option, but remote storage capacity will keep increasing.