# Retention policies documentation **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [December 6, 2023, 4:07pm UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/retention-policies-documentation/2488 "2023-12-06T16:07:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 12
**Author:** ![rhinomagnetar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a88e57/32.png) [@rhinomagnetar](https://kopia.discourse.group/u/rhinomagnetar)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2024, 10:54am UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/retention-policies-documentation/2488/12 "2024-05-27T10:54:24Z")
Btw here’s a more comprehensive post I made regarding retention policies: > [@Kopia Snapshot Retention Policies Demystified](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/kopia-snapshot-retention-policies-demystified/2941): > > With the suggestion of @JayKay729, I decided to create a dummy backup for testing how Kopia choose which backups to save, but in this experiment, I learned much more than I initially planned. In this post, I would like to share these discoveries, along with some examples to demonstrate them. This is a supplement to [his post](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/retention-policies-documentation/2488), so I’ll jump straight to those he hasn’t covered yet. Numbers in Snapshot Retention Except for Latest Snapshots, Kopia considers the number you write here as dura… --- _[View the full topic](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/retention-policies-documentation/2488)._