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Placing backups on hold

To create space for new backups, Unitrends appliances periodically purge older backups. You can control how long backups remain on the appliance by creating retention policies (see Managing retention with long-term data management) or by manually placing individual backups on hold. Backups that have been placed on hold manually or by a policy are never purged. An asset's latest backups are also never purged. New backups fail if an appliance cannot purge older backups to create sufficient space.

You can manually place backups on hold by using the Backup Browser or the Backup Catalog. The Backup Browser provides appliance-level search capability, advanced search options, and faster filtering performance. The Backup Catalog enables you to browse by asset only.

See these procedures to manually hold and unhold backups: