Disabling Long-Term Retention Policy

You can disable all or specific types of the long-term retention policy: weekly, monthly or yearly.

Disabling All Types of Long-Term Retention

To disable the long-term retention policy for the backup job, use the following command:

veeamconfig gfs disable --jobid <job_id>

or

veeamconfig gfs disable --jobname <job_name>

where:

  • <job_id> — ID of the backup job for which you want to disable the long-term retention policy.
  • <job_name> — name of the backup job for which you want to disable the long-term retention policy.

For example:

user@srv01:~$ veeamconfig gfs disable --jobid 4849a3ae-1935-4969-98a3-d8acd2f6c73f

Disabling Specific Types of Long-Term Retention

To disable a specific type of the long-term retention policy for the backup job, use the following command:

veeamconfig gfs set --jobid <job_id> <period> --disable

or

veeamconfig gfs set --jobname <job_name> <period> --disable

where:

  • <job_id> — ID of the backup job for which you want to disable the long-term retention policy.
  • <job_name> — name of the backup job for which you want to disable the long-term retention policy.
  • <period> — single type of the long-term retention policy you want to disable. Possible values: weekly, monthly or yearly.

For example:

user@srv01:~$ veeamconfig gfs set --jobid 4849a3ae-1935-4969-98a3-d8acd2f6c73f weekly --disable

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