{"id":18483,"date":"2020-01-21T15:29:36","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T20:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/?p=18483"},"modified":"2021-04-06T17:26:38","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T21:26:38","slug":"change-backup-retention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/total-upkeep\/change-backup-retention\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Change your Backup Retention Settings"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18265\" src=\"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/total-upkeep-horizontal-image-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"72\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/total-upkeep-horizontal-image-2.png 800w, https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/total-upkeep-horizontal-image-2-300x27.png 300w, https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/total-upkeep-horizontal-image-2-768x69.png 768w, https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/total-upkeep-horizontal-image-2-610x55.png 610w, https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/total-upkeep-horizontal-image-2-250x23.png 250w, https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/total-upkeep-horizontal-image-2-550x50.png 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Retention configurations for your WordPress backups are located in the settings for each individual storage location in the <strong>Backup Storage<\/strong> tab in your <a href=\"\/wordpress-backup-plugin\/\">Total Upkeep<\/a> plugin settings. Select the Update option for your preferred storage location to display the Retention settings.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/backupRetention01.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18484 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/backupRetention01-1024x575.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/backupRetention01-1024x575.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/backupRetention01-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/backupRetention01-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/backupRetention01-1536x863.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/backupRetention01-610x343.png 610w, https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/backupRetention01-250x140.png 250w, https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/backupRetention01-550x309.png 550w, https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/backupRetention01-800x450.png 800w, https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/backupRetention01-320x180.png 320w, https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/backupRetention01-534x300.png 534w, https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/backupRetention01-890x500.png 890w, https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/backupRetention01.png 1680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/backupRetention02.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18485 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/backupRetention02-1024x575.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/backupRetention02-1024x575.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/backupRetention02-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/backupRetention02-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/backupRetention02-1536x863.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/backupRetention02-610x343.png 610w, https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/backupRetention02-250x140.png 250w, https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/backupRetention02-550x309.png 550w, https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/backupRetention02-800x450.png 800w, https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/backupRetention02-320x180.png 320w, https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/backupRetention02-534x300.png 534w, https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/backupRetention02-890x500.png 890w, https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/backupRetention02.png 1680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once the Retention settings are opened you can quickly change the total number of backups that will be saved in your location.&nbsp; New backups will replace the oldest one in the list automatically once the specified retention limit is met.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"protect-a-backup-from-retention-deletion\">Protect A Backup From Retention Deletion<\/h2>\n<p>If you have a backup that you&nbsp;<strong>don&rsquo;t want to be deleted<\/strong> according to your retention settings, you can choose to&nbsp;<strong>Ignore Retention<\/strong> on any backup archive file.<\/p>\n<p>Navigate to <strong>Total Upkeep &gt; Backups&nbsp;<\/strong>and select&nbsp;<strong>View Details<\/strong> next to the backup archive you want to protect. In the&nbsp;<strong>Backup Archive&nbsp;<\/strong>metabox, click on&nbsp;<strong>Edit<\/strong> next to&nbsp;<strong>Ignore Retention<\/strong>. Select <strong>Yes<\/strong>, then click&nbsp;<strong>Update.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Ignore-Retention-Setting.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35799\" src=\"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Ignore-Retention-Setting.png\" alt=\"The ignore retention setting\" width=\"326\" height=\"506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Ignore-Retention-Setting.png 326w, https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Ignore-Retention-Setting-193x300.png 193w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 326px) 100vw, 326px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Retention configurations for your WordPress backups are located in the settings for each individual storage location in the Backup Storage tab in your Total Upkeep plugin settings. Select the Update option for your preferred storage location to display the Retention settings. Once the Retention settings are opened you can quickly change the total number [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":880,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","footnotes":""},"categories":[762,453],"tags":[702],"class_list":["post-18483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-settings","category-total-upkeep","tag-retention","feature-type-free","experience-level-getting-started"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/880"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18483"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35800,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18483\/revisions\/35800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}