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That was it. Thank You!

Thank you for all your help! In case anyone else wanted to know it's slightly different:

exec sp_change_log_shipping_secondary_primary

@primary_server = 'LAP8EA01',

@primary_database = 'MainDb',

@file_retention_period = '8640'

and for the secondary server I would do this?

exec sp_change_log_shipping_secondary_primary @database = 'MainDb',

@ file_retention_period = '8640'

Yeah, that would have saved some time, so sorry, I thought mentioned it. Here is the mirror/primary output. Is it safe to just manually update the backup_retention_period field?...

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both

111% sure...

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