Creating a default Avamar retention policy

With all backups you want to have a "default" retention period for the backup set. You can create this default retention set with the below mccli command from the CLI. Adjust the "+0D" to match your required retention timing. In my example below we have basic and adv-daily retention set to 60 days. This means any policy running this retention will have backups kept for 60 days before garbage collection will remove these backups from the grid.

mccli retention add --name=RETENTION_NAME --basic=+60D --adv-daily=+60D --adv-weekly=+0D --adv-monthly=+0D --adv-yearly=+0D