Learn how MSP360 Managed Backup, coupled with Object Lock and Forever Forward Incremental, can revolutionize the way you secure your data and optimize costs
3. ● Forever Forward incremental
● Grandfather Father Son retention
● Object Lock
● Q&A Session
Agenda
4. Differences In Retention
● Regular Retention - It works but it contains at least 2 full
backups, which consumes about half of the storage usage.
● Forever Forward Incremental (FFI) - Great way to save on
storage for short and mid-term retention up to 6 months. FFI
always stores only 1 FULL in the storage bucket.
● Grandfather Father Son (GFS) - Another great way to save
on storage for long term archival data. Immutability/Object
Lock is also available as a feature in this retention policy.
Store individual FULL backups with additional retention
without extra incrementals.
5. Forever Forward Incremental
● What is Forever Forward Incremental?
● Saves up to 50% in storage costs compared
to regular backup retention policies
● Stores only 1 full backup in storage
● Fast uploads from devices
● Easy configuration
6. FFI Applicability
● Available on Windows agents only
● (macOS and Linux support coming soon)
Available for Cloud Storage destinations:
● AWS (Standard, Standard-IA, Glacier Instant retrieval)
● Azure (Hot and Cool)
● Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage
● Backblaze B2
● S3-compatible storage (where supported)
7. How Does it Work?
Storage: AWS S3 StandardAzure HotB2
Backup schedule: every day
Retention period: 8 days
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8. How does Intelligent
Retention work?
Storage: MSP360 by Wasabi
(minimum retention period 30 days)
Backup schedule: every day
Retention period: 30 days
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Number of restore point varies between 30 required and 60.
Retention policy + minimum storage retention period
1 month 2 months
10. Grandfather-Father-Son
● GFS for short, is a retention policy for the given backup
plan which is based on storing several full backups.
● Allows you to create a flexible archival strategy and
optimize the number of full backups at the same time.
● The regular retention and GFS retention policies are
combined to keep the balance between the data
availability and storage expenses.
11. GFS applicability
● Available on Windows agents
● Requires scheduling periodical Full Backup!
Available for Cloud Storage destinations:
● AWS
● Wasabi
● BackBlaze
● Azure
● S3-compatible storage
● Local
- Object lock (Immutability)
12. GFS Backup schedule:
Incremental: every day
Full backup: every week
Retention period:
Regular: 30 days
Weekly: 6 weeks
Monthly: 3 months
Yearly: 1 year
Regular
Weekly Full
Monthly Full
Yearly Full
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13. Object Lock/Immutability
● Protects the backup from any modifications and
deletions until the specified time period expires.
● One of best features to implement against cyber
threats. (Ransomware cannot change or alter data
stored in an immutable state)
● Enable Object Lock with GFS retention settings.
● Can be configured as a default option for the
● storage bucket.
would like to include a globe here with dots on markets we serve .
i would also like to include some of the bigger clients we work with both on the MSP side and on the Business side.
basically what im thinking is combine slides 3-6 into one slide. a lot of them have similar info on it already and we can pick and choose what we like.
