Student activity logs missing from backups, by design?

Re: Student activity logs missing from backups, by design?

by Paul Lindgreen -
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Yes, all info checked for backing up except 'anonymize information' and 'include badges'.

How does the General Backup default setting 'Keep logs for' affect backups? Currently mine is set to 30 days but I've tried 365 as well, but I'm not sure what it does to manual and automated backups?

We are looking for an easy way to restore student logs older than 1 year and were thinking our quarterly backup and archive of the moodle database may be useful, Do you think restoring a 16month old database in a development environment will give us access to student activity logs older than 1 year? Would those logs be removed after the cron job runs to clean up logs older than 1 year?