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Specifying Yearly Schedule

To create a yearly schedule for the backup policy, at the Schedule step of the wizard, specify the following:

  1. Turn on the Yearly Retention toggle to open the Yearly schedule window.
  2. In the Backup Settings section, specify the following:
  1. From the Create restore point at drop-down list, select time when the backup policy will create backups.
  2. In the Run on section, specify a day of the month when the backup policy will create backups.
  3. In the Keep backups for field, specify the retention period to keep backups in years.

Specify Yearly Retention