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Advanced retention rules
Automatically delete backups based on their age and save storage space.
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What is the ‘advanced retention rule’ feature?
This advanced feature allows you to schedule frequent backups but to prune down backups once those backups reach a specified age.
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What are the benefits of this feature?
You can have more frequent, recent backups whilst also retaining fewer older backups, saving storage space and time vs manually deleting older backups.
Here’s a quick example of a set of retention rules
For your WordPress files, you could tell UpdraftPlus to:
- Back up every 2 hours starting at 00:00 and retain 60 backups (essentially 5 days’ worth of backups every 2 hours).
- You could then add that for backups older than 2 days, UpdraftPlus should keep no more than 1 backup every 1 day.
UpdraftPlus will identify the most recent backup that is older than 2 days, and retain that one. UpdraftPlus will continue to trim down backups that are older than 2 days and retain just one a day until a maximum of 60 backups are reached.
You can apply different rules for file and database backups or apply the same strategy to both.
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Detailed reports
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