Using Zerto’s Long Term Retention : Enabling Long Term Retention for the VPGs
  
Enabling Long Term Retention for the VPGs
Following is the procedure for enabling Long Term Retention for a VPG.
 
Note:
Long Term retention is not available when the VPG is recovered to a Public Cloud.
 
Note:
When needed, you can manually run the retention process ad hoc. See Manually Running the Retention Process
Requirements
■ Verify that a Repository was created where the retention sets will be saved. Repositories are created and configured via the SETUP tab as described in Creating a New Repository for Retention.
■ When using Long Term Retention, the VRA should be configured with 2 vCPUs.
Long Term Retention can be enabled at the same time when you first create the VPG to protect virtual machines.
You can also enable Long Term Retention by editing an existing VPG.
To enable Long Term Retention for a VPG:
5. Toggle Long Term Retention from OFF to ON.
The options on the screen become available.
Note: When a VPG is recovered to a Public Cloud, Long Term retention is not available.
6. Select the Target Repository from the drop-down list. This is the name of the Repository where the retention sets are written. The Connection Type and Path of that Repository appear after selecting the Target Repository.
7. Select the VMs to index from the File System Indexing drop-down list. For details on file system indexing, see Configuring File System Indexing.
8. Run all retention processes at: The time to start the retention process.The time is shown in UTC and is according to the Zerto Virtual Manager clock in the production site. All Daily, Weekly, Monthly or Yearly retentions will run at this time.
9. Daily and Monthly retentions are toggled ON by default and the default retention settings for Schedule, Type and Keep For appear. By default, all retention processes are scheduled to run on the same day.
10. Toggle the Weekly or Yearly retentions from OFF to ON. The default retention settings for Schedule, Type and Keep For appear. The retention setting Keep For is the length of time to keep the retention sets. For details of how this affects the number of retention sets saved, see Storing Retention Sets.
Note: Daily or Weekly retentions must be configured. Weekly or Monthly retentions must be configured to Full.
11. If you do not want to use the default settings, click the edit icon next to each retention setting and configure the following:
Setting & Description
Select...
Daily
Click the edit icon. The Daily Retention window is displayed
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■ Run at: The time set to run all retention processes. This field cannot be edited from the Daily Retention window.
■ Keep For: Define the number of days to keep the Daily Retentions. A rotation of the retention process will be performed to enforce the predefined retention.
Weekly
Click the edit icon. The Weekly Retention window is displayed.
■ Every: Run a retention process every selected day of the week.
■ Type: Select Full or Incremental from the drop-down menu.
■ Full: All the data is copied to the Repository.
■ Incremental: Only the changes from the last retention process are copied.
■ Run at: The time set to run all retention processes. This field cannot be edited from the Weekly Retention window.
■ Keep for: Define the number of weeks to keep the Weekly retentions. A rotation of the retention process will be performed to enforce the predefined retention.
Monthly
Click the edit icon. The Monthly Retention window is displayed.
■ Run a retention process on the first, second, third, fourth or last selected day of each month. For example, you can choose to run a retention process on the last Sunday of each month.
■ Or, you can run a retention process on a specific date of the month up to the 28th and last. For example, you can choose to run a retention process on the 12th of each month.
■ Type: Select Full or Incremental from the drop-down menu.
■ Full: All the data is copied to the Repository.
■ Incremental: Only the changes from the last retention process are copied.
■ Run at: The time set to run all retention processes. This field cannot be edited from the Monthly Retention window.
■ Keep for: Define the number of months to keep the Monthly retentions. A rotation of the retention process will be performed to enforce the predefined retention.
Yearly
Click the edit icon. The Yearly Retention window is displayed.
■ Run a retention process on the first or last selected day of the year. For example, you can choose to run a retention process on the last Sunday of each year.
■ Or, you can run a retention process on a specific day and month of the year. For example, you can choose to run a retention process every 12th of July.
■ Type: Select Full or Incremental from the drop-down menu.
■ Full: All the data is copied to the Repository.
■ Incremental: Only the changes from the last retention process are copied.
■ Run at: The time set to run all retention processes. This field cannot be edited from the Yearly Retention window.
■ Keep for: Define the number of years to keep the Yearly retentions. A rotation of the retention process will be performed to enforce the predefined retention.
12. Retries: Select Automatic retry after failure to automatically rerun the retention process, if the operation fails.
■ If you select this option, you must also define Number of attempts, and the Wait time between retries.
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