Back Retention Policy thoughts pleaese?

Which retention policies are you referring to?  Server Backup, Exchange Server

Keep Daily Revisions: 7 days
Keep Weekly Revisions: 5 weeks
Keep Monthly Revisions: 12 months
Keep Yearly Revisions:  Forever or whatever the statutory limitation for Taxes

Hi David,
I'm referring to them all? I'm asking if this is overkill or good practise? for all those services above?
thank you by the way

Hi All
can anyone help
Thank you

The biggest potential problem I see is your "keep yearly revisions one year".  Is there no data here that may have a legal or business reason for longer retention?   No tax data?  No engineering documents?  No business docs or financial information?     Some data might need to be kept for 7 years, other data forever.

As far as the "keep deleted messages 2 days" -- this is something I'd recommend you look at your history of requests for restores.  If you've had enough people requesting restore of deleted documents for more than that, you might want to increase this (even though it may have a significant impact on storage requirements).

In the end, how long you keep data should have more to do with your business requirements and legal requirements, than with a "standard template".  It's a good idea to review your plan with your legal department and other business stakeholders, making sure you present the costs for the various alternatives.

Exchange will keep items that are emptied from deleted items for a period of time. We changed it to 30 days. It doesn't cost much storage on the Exchange server.

Like other have stated retention setting for backups is business specific and which have buy in from your companies legal, I.T,security and Application Owner groups.

Where will the data be storage tape , cloud etc...?

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