---
title: "Enabling Long-Term Retention Policy"
description: "To start marking backups with specific GFS flags, you must enable the long-term retention policy for the job. Use the following command: or where: <job_id> — ID of the backup job for which you want to enable the long-term retention policy."
canonical: "https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/agentforsolaris/userguide/backup_job_cmd_gfs_enable.html"
breadcrumb: "User Guide > Performing Backup > Creating Backup Jobs > Creating Backup Job with Command Line Interface > Configuring Long-Term Retention Policy > Enabling Long-Term Retention Policy"
dateModified: "2026-11-03"
---

# Enabling Long-Term Retention Policy

To start marking backups with specific GFS flags, you must enable the long-term retention policy for the job. Use the following command:

```
veeamconfig gfs enable --jobid <job_id> [--type <period>]
```

or

```
veeamconfig gfs enable --jobname <job_name> [--type <period>]
```

where:

- `<job_id>` — ID of the backup job for which you want to enable the long-term retention policy. You should look up the job ID in advance, for example, with the `veeamconfig job list` command. To learn more, see [Viewing List of Backup Jobs](backup_job_list.md).
- `<job_name>` — name of the backup job for which you want to enable the long-term retention policy.
- `<period>` — type of the long-term retention policy. Possible values: `weekly`, `monthly` or `yearly`.   
  This parameter is optional. You can use it to enable a specific type of long-term retention policy. To enable several types of retention at once, specify all necessary retention types separated by a comma ('`,`') — for example: `weekly,monthly`.

For example:

```
user@srv01:~$ veeamconfig gfs enable --jobid 4849a3ae-1935-4969-98a3-d8acd2f6c73f --type monthly
```

You can disable the long-term retention policy for the job at any time. To learn more, see [Disabling Long-Term Retention Policy](backup_job_cmd_gfs_disable.md).