Stop keeping 90 daily backups, build retention tiers instead

Stop keeping 90 daily backups, build retention tiers instead
Slow-burn corruption can hide for weeks, and your 7-day window won't reach the clean copy. Tier it:
— Hourly for the last 24 hours, catch the oops
— Daily for 30 days, catch the bad deploy
— Weekly for 3 months, catch the silent corruption
— Monthly for a year, catch the compliance request
— Prune automatically, but NEVER below the longest tier
Flat retention means ransomware that sat dormant 40 days already poisoned every copy you kept. Change my mind.