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title: "Applying a Snapshot Retention Policy"
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tags: ["Portal", "8.3"]
updated: 2025-06-30T06:31:02Z
published: 2025-06-30T06:31:02Z
canonical: "kb.ctera.com/applying-a-snapshot-retention-policy-5-1"
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# Applying a Snapshot Retention Policy

Snapshot retention policies can be applied as part of the subscription plan at the following levels: **At the portal level** – The snapshot retention policy defined in the subscription plan applies to all users in the portal, as described in [Provisioning](/v1/docs/provisioning-11-1). **At the user level** – A subscription plan including the snapshot retention policy can be applied to individual users in the portal. See [Provisioning User Accounts](/v1/docs/provisioning-user-accounts-5-1) for details about assigning a subscription plan to an individual user account.

## Applying a Snapshot Retention Policy at Both the Team Portal and User Levels

When a snapshot retention policy is assigned to a portal, the policy is globally enforced as a set of maximum values for all users in the portal. Individual users in that portal can be assigned user-level snapshot retention policies, so long as the values in the user-level policy do not exceed those of the portal-level policy.

For example, a portal called *example* is assigned a subscription plan, *example-plan*, which includes the following snapshot retention policy.

- Retain 7 daily snapshots
- Retain 4 weekly snapshots
- Retain 12 monthly snapshots

Users in the *example* portal cannot be assigned a snapshot retention policy that exceeds the values specified in *example-plan*. Therefore, users in this portal cannot be assigned the following snapshot retention policy:

- Retain 10 daily snapshots
- Retain 15 weekly snapshots
- Retain 17 monthly snapshots

However, they can be assigned the following snapshot retention policy:

- Retain 6 daily snapshots
- Retain 2 weekly snapshots
- Retain 9 monthly snapshots

## Applying a Snapshot Retention Policy For a Shared Folder

When two users with different snapshot retention policies collaborate on the same file, snapshots are retained according to the project owner's retention policy.