topic Re: SMSP 8.2 - backup retention policy in Data Protection

SMSP 8.2 - backup retention policy

alliantenergynjk — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 22:55:18 GMT

When performing snapshot deletion after a backup completes, does the retention policy ignore snapshots from previous backups that failed. For example if our policy is to keep the last 14 backups, but there were two backups that had a failure in the past few weeks, does it actually keep 16 snapshots - 14 "Good" backups per our policy and 2 "Bad" backups.

Thanks

Re: SMSP 8.2 - backup retention policy

Sahana — Tue, 03 Nov 2015 02:32:35 GMT

Hi,

It will retain 14 good backups, failed backups are not counted. Refer the table https://library.netapp.com/ecmdocs/ECMP1360316/html/GUID-0C8E7494-EBA7-4C71-B452-697BA2CCC536.html

Re: SMSP 8.2 - backup retention policy

alliantenergynjk — Tue, 03 Nov 2015 13:55:59 GMT

Thank you for the information. That lines up with what we are seeing.

NJK