Question

A cloud operations team must retain daily backups for 7 days, weekly backups for 5 weeks, and monthly backups for 12 months while minimizing storage cost. Backups are currently created manually, which has led to inconsistent retention and growing storage bills. Which approach best automates this requirement?

Accepted Answer

Configure a backup policy with a grandfather-father-son rotation schedule and automated lifecycle rules that expire snapshots according to each tier's retention period

Answer

Create a single scheduled job that takes one snapshot per day and manually delete old snapshots during monthly maintenance windows

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Increase snapshot frequency to hourly and rely on the storage provider to automatically purge the oldest data when the account nears its quota

Answer

Replicate all snapshots to a second region and keep every snapshot indefinitely to guarantee compliance with the retention requirement