# Database backups disabled

A database whose backup retention period is set to zero.

Area: Security

## What you need to supply

The infrastructure text. The check does not open the database or a backup vault.

## If it reports a finding

High severity. The suggested next step is to set a nonzero retention period and test a restore.

## What this does not prove

A database that omits the retention setting is not this finding. No finding does not prove backups exist.

## Setting that this check is written to notice

```
backup_retention_period = 0
```

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