I have cloud storage and would prefer to send a backup to cloud on a weekly basis (with limited number of copies) and have multiple daily backups on a file share locally and then one copy of a daily backup local on HA host. I understand the overhead of producing the backup but there is also bandwidth and backup aging.
I think the current retention setting is on number of copies and there is no way to set up a schedule per storage location? Or is there a workaround?
Probably not 100% in line with backup best practice, but if the house burns down a re-install of HA is probably in order anyway.
Thanks for your response, I read the announcement as number of copies. When I have 7 backups on local NAS and 1 in the cloud, that cloud backup is yesterday.
My system is stable, so my monthly cloud backup has relevance for me. A separate schedule, rather than separate retention, would allow me to go back further in time?
One backup a month, and 12 copies stored on Onedrive
One backup a week, and 52 copies stored on GDrive
Every day backup, and 7 backups stored on Webdav
Only one backup in the HA cloud will be saved at a time. What you replied with it wasn’t clear to me that you understood that.
If you need a special monthly one, it would have to be stored separate. I suggest one of the addons and schedule it that way. Since that option is available now via automations or add-ons, it is not planned to be added to the core back-up stuff.
Ah no, I did not know that on HA cloud it is the latest only. But I’ll admit I was not clear in my ask - so the cloud I was referring to was google, onedrive and not Nabu Casa. Today I do a manual backup to one-drive, I’ll see how far I get with automations. Thx!
