PIM Manager settings · Operations > Backups & restore

Keep configuration backups for (days)

Key	ConfigBackupRetentionDays
Where	Operations > Backups & restore (also Settings > Copy & tools > Configuration backups)
Type	Number
Default	90 days
Confirmation	PIM Manager asks you to confirm before it is switched on.

What it does

How many days PIM Manager keeps its daily configuration backups (departments, external companies, admins, group definitions, delegations, workload bindings and settings -- never secrets). Any whole number from 1 to 3650.

When set

When set: once a day the backup job takes a backup (or records 'no change') and then deletes every backup older than this many days. Pinned backups are always kept, the newest real backup is always kept so there is a restore point, and a backup a kept 'no change' record points to is kept. Each prune is written to the audit trail.

When blank or default

At the default (90 days): the same daily prune, with a 90-day window.

Risk and how to reverse it

Lowering the value deletes older backups permanently at the next daily run -- they cannot be restored afterwards. Pin any backup you must keep before you lower it. Raising it keeps more backups (more database space). Reversible for the future only: a higher value does not bring back backups already pruned.

Requires

SuperAdmin to change it; Admin can read it. Free (Community) and Pro. The daily config-backup job must be enabled (it is by default).