Data Aging is the process of removing old data from secondary storage to allow the associated media to be reused for future backups.
By default, all backup data is retained infinitely. However, you should change the retention of your data based on your needs. Note that if you continue to have infinite retention, you will also need infinite storage capacity.
These are considered as linked or chained log backups and are not aged until the linked data is aged. In addition, the following is also considered:
As this is an unlinked log backup, by default, this will follow the unique data aging rules for log backups. If you want such log backups to be aged according to the defined days retention rule for the data, you can do so as follows:
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