How to set up additional backup retention rules

By adding additional retention rules, all backups that are older than a certain date will be grouped together and pruned until there is only one backup for each time period. The additional retention rules run after the normal backup pruning, and are run in the order they were created. Additional retention rules also include automatic backups when evaluating which backups to prune.

Follow the instructions below or watch our video on how to add additional retention rules when backing up your WordPress sites with UpdraftPlus.

How to set up additional retention rules for UpdraftPlus backups

First, you will need to install and activate UpdraftPlus Premium.

To set it up, first go to: WP Admin->Settings->UpdraftPlus Backups->Settings tab

In the section 'Choose your remote storage', select your storage provider, for example - Google Drive

Under the Files/Database backup schedule settings, find the ‘Add an additional retention rule’ link

In the section 'Files backup schedule' select on 'Add additional retention rule', then choose your remote storage

Set your additional retention rule/s and press the ‘Save Changes’ button at the bottom of the page.

To set additional retention rules select 'Save Changes' button

Set how old the backups to be considered should be and how many backups to keep. Once this is setup, all backups older than your selected time period will be grouped together and pruned, until there is only one backup for each time period.