Hi there!

I'm sure I'm missing something extremely simple here as I'm not finding any posts regarding retention in the Site Manager forum so I must just be missing something.

So I have a very simple scenario:
3 clients
1 full backup every 6 weeks
Daily incrementals
After a full backup runs the other full (and it's dependent incrementals of course) should be deleted as the retention rule is set to keep 1 full backup.

The full backups do run every 6 weeks and the daily incrementals all run however when a new full is created it's created in a new sub-folder of the client's repository and the existing old full is not deleted.

Any insight is appreciated!

Dan

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Dano - 11 June 2020 4:42 PM

Hi there!

I'm sure I'm missing something extremely simple here as I'm not finding any posts regarding retention in the Site Manager forum so I must just be missing something.

So I have a very simple scenario:
3 clients
1 full backup every 6 weeks
Daily incrementals
After a full backup runs the other full (and it's dependent incrementals of course) should be deleted as the retention rule is set to keep 1 full backup.

The full backups do run every 6 weeks and the daily incrementals all run however when a new full is created it's created in a new sub-folder of the client's repository and the existing old full is not deleted.

Any insight is appreciated!

Dan

Hi Dan,

Are you using multiple backup definitions?

In Site Manager, each Backup Definition creates it's own subfolder (the folder structure is RepositoryRoot\ComputerName\BackupDefinitionId). Retention rules are applied within folders, so they are only applied on a per-Backup Definition basis. That means that if you backup the same computer with two backup definitions, they will have retention rules applied independently. 

Kind Regards,

Alex

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Hi Alex!

I did indeed have fulls and incrementals in different definitions because the previous definition with both in it did not work. I will recreate a single definition and try again!

Thank you sir!

Dan

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Dano - 11 June 2020 5:53 PM

Hi Alex!

I did indeed have fulls and incrementals in different definitions because the previous definition with both in it did not work. I will recreate a single definition and try again!

Thank you sir!

Dan

Hi Dan,

No problem - if that doesn't work let me know and we can work out what's going on.

Kind Regards,

Alex

Macrium Development

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