# Backup Policy
1. **What is Backup Policy?**
A backup policy is a set of rules and standards that define how a system backs up data. It includes details about how often to back up, what data to back up, what types of backups to create, and data retention rules. Simply put, a backup policy is the “blueprint” for your data backup process.
1. **Why is Backup Policy important?**
* **Data protection:** Helps ensure that your data is always secure and recoverable when needed.
* **Optimize resources:** Helps you use storage resources efficiently by backing up only the data you need and retaining backups for a reasonable period of time.
* **Regulatory Compliance:** Make sure your backups comply with data security and storage regulations.
1. **Structure of a Backup Policy**
A backup policy includes the following elements:
* **Backup frequency:**
* **Hourly:** Hourly backup.
* **Daily:** Daily backup.
* **Weekly:** Weekly backup.
* **Monthly:** Monthly backup.
* **Job run time:** Time to start automatic backup.
* **Rule to retain number of full backups:** Specifies the number of full backups to retain.
* **Rule to create incremental backups between two full backups:** Specifies the number of incremental backups created between two full backups.
* **Backup method:** Specify the backup method (e.g. full backup, incremental backup).
* **Notification:** Notify when the backup process is successful or failed.
1. **How Backup Policy works**
1. **Schedule:** The system will automatically perform backups according to the schedule configured in the policy.
2. **Data Backup:** The system will copy data according to the defined rules.
3. **Data Retention:** The system will automatically delete old backups to ensure compliance with data retention rules.
2. **Example of a Backup Policy**
* **For example, the user installs a policy set as shown below:**
* **Explain how it works:**
| **Day** | **Launch time** | **Backup type** | **Retention applies** | **Delete backup** | **Note** |
| ------- | --------------- | --------------- | --------------------- | ----------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 1 | 1:00 | Full | Hourly and Daily | Are not | |
| 1 | 7:00 | Incremental | Hourly | Are not | |
| 1 | 13:00 | Incremental | Hourly | Are not | |
| 1 | 19:00 | Incremental | Hourly | Are not | |
| 2 | 1:00 | Full | Hourly and Daily | Are not | According to retention daily, only 1 full copy is kept. If only retention daily is applied, the first full copy will be deleted. But applying rentention daily (keeping 2 copies, so the first copy will still be kept) |
| 2 | 7:00 | Incremental | Hourly | Are not | |
| 2 | 13:00 | Incremental | Hourly | Are not | |
| 2 | 19:00 | Incremental | Hourly | Are not | |
| 3 | 1:00 | Full | Hourly and Daily | Have | According to retention daily (keep 2 full versions), therefore, the first full version and 3 incremental versions after that full version will be deleted. |
Above is an example of how the policy works for the first 3 days, the following days will continue to work as set if nothing changes.
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