You're almost there! Please answer a few more questions for access to the Applications content. Complete registration
Interested in joining? Complete your registration by providing Areas of Interest here. Register

Add optional retention policies to Compute backups

Autonomous Recovery Service gives us the concept of a "retention policy" by enforcing the retention period configured on an ARS backup policy. This is great for customer's wanting assurance that malicious actors couldn't delete backups even if they had access to compromised credentials.

However, now that capability is sorely missing from Compute where backups cannot be "locked" from deletion in any way that can withstand compromised credentials. I propose you allow a similar model as with ARS to enforce backup retention for the duration of the configured term on a Compute backup or otherwise—like with customer-managed Object Storage buckets—allow for lifecycle policies to be applied along with a Backup policy to enforce custom retention terms perhaps variable based on tags, compartment ID, or other criteria.

1 votes

Submitted · Last Updated

Howdy, Stranger!

Log In

To view full details, sign in.

Register

Don't have an account? Click here to get started!