# Retention for PITR data

**URL:** https://forums.percona.com/t/retention-for-pitr-data/39506
**Category:** Percona Operator for MongoDB
**Tags:** psmdb-operator
**Created:** [October 7, 2025, 7:11am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/retention-for-pitr-data/39506 "2025-10-07T07:11:43Z")
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### Author: ![horihel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f0a364/32.png) [@horihel](https://forums.percona.com/u/horihel)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2025, 7:11am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/retention-for-pitr-data/39506/1 "2025-10-07T07:11:43Z")

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## Description:

As far as my understanding of the docs go, if you configure PITR storage, retention policies will automatically keep PITR data for _every_ snapshot regardless of storage logation (main/secondaries).

So what if I’d like to keep only a limited subset of PITR data - maybe I want to only be able to do PITR restores for the last 30 days - for anything older my backup snapshots are only intended for archiving/long-term and PITR data is essentially just eating up space.

using pbm directly, this seems to be possible, but I don’t see an option for this with the operator. Am I correct? Did I miss anything?