diff --git a/data/init.sh b/data/init.sh
index afdbaf8..d95f3e6 100755
--- a/data/init.sh
+++ b/data/init.sh
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ if [ $# -gt 0 ]; then
     if [ $1 == "dev" ]; then
         # 101 is the uid and gid of the user and group www in the cc-php container running php-fpm.
         # For a demo with no new jobs it is enough to give www read permissions on that directory.
+        echo "This script needs to chown the job-archive directory so that the application can write to it:"
         sudo chown -R 101:101 ./job-archive
 
         mkdir -p influxdb/data
@@ -19,8 +20,8 @@ if [ $# -gt 0 ]; then
         cd influxdb/data
         tar xJf ../../influxdbv2-data.tar.xz
         rm ../../influxdbv2-data.tar.xz
-
         cd ../..
+
         # If development: Use SQL source including INFLUX-Job Metadata instead
         cp ./sql-source/ClusterCockpit-dev.sql ./sql-init/ClusterCockpit.sql
     fi
diff --git a/docker-compose-dev.yml b/docker-compose-dev.yml
index e7b85c3..d1e5ee1 100644
--- a/docker-compose-dev.yml
+++ b/docker-compose-dev.yml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ services:
             DOCKER_INFLUXDB_INIT_PASSWORD: ${INFLUXDB_PASSWORD}
             DOCKER_INFLUXDB_INIT_ORG: ClusterCockpit
             DOCKER_INFLUXDB_INIT_BUCKET: ClusterCockpit
-            DOCKER_INFLUXDB_INIT_RETENTION: 2w
+            DOCKER_INFLUXDB_INIT_RETENTION: 2y
             DOCKER_INFLUXDB_INIT_ADMIN_TOKEN: ${INFLUXDB_ADMIN_TOKEN}
         ports:
             - "127.0.0.1:${INFLUXDB_PORT}:8086"