Maximum number of restore points for a job

Beginning in Portal version 8.88, when you schedule a backup job, the View/Add Schedule dialog box shows the maximum number of restore points that could result from the job's current schedules and retention types. The maximum number of restore points, or backups in the vault, is updated when you add or change a schedule row so you can understand the impact of your schedule changes and make additional changes, if required.

Note: Beginning in Portal 9.30, the "Maximum number of restore points" for a job is named "Maximum number of scheduled restore points". This value does not include ad hoc backups or backups that are started by Windows event backup triggers.

For example, if you schedule a backup to run daily and select the default Monthly retention type (which specifies that each backup is kept for 365 days), the maximum number of restore points shown in the View/Add Schedule dialog box is 365. If 365 restore points would use too much vault storage, you can reduce the frequency of the backups or change the retention type. For example, you could change the retention type to the default Daily retention type, which specifies that each backup is kept for 30 days.

The maximum number of restore points includes backups created from Intra-daily, Days of Week and Days of Month schedules. The maximum number of restore points does not include restore points created using:

• Custom schedules for the job.

• Retention types that are no longer used. If a schedule was deleted or the retention for a job was changed, additional backups might remain in the vault.

  For example, if a job was scheduled to run daily using the default Daily retention type, but you delete that schedule and create a new schedule using another retention type, backups from the original daily schedule plus backups from the new schedule will be saved in the vault. However, backups from the original daily schedule would not be included in the Maximum number of restore points shown in the View/Add Schedule dialog box.

Note: The Maximum number of restore points is not provided for Hyper-V Agent schedules.