Why so many of these "175.9 GB freed for further backups" messages?
I have a large 2TB plus backup to Acronis cloud. After every backup this message appears:
"175.9 GB freed for further backups"
This can't be right can it? I can't believe that 175.9 GB of space is freed after each backup.
In reply to Bernard, what do have for… by truwrikodrorow…
This is it. The backup is mostly static photos, videos, movies, and music. So I don't need versions of the files.
Bernard, thanks for the feedback, glad it helped with this question.
I still don't understand why after every backup I'm getting a "175.9 GB freed for further backups". What exactly does that mean?
Have you had a look at what is in your cloud backup? I would suspect that each week files are being deleted based on your settings.
That's what frightens me. What is being deleted? And why is it always 175.9 GB?
The cloud backup is 2.5 TB. With that many files it's difficult to tell what is being deleted.
Bernard, sorry but difficult to answer the why and what being asked. 175.9GB is still a whole lot of files that look to be changing on a regular basis, especially as you say it is "mostly static photos, videos, movies, and music."
If you have the Cloud storage space, try changing your cleanup settings to delete older than 2 weeks instead of just 1 and see what difference it makes?
Alternatively, raise a Support Case directly with Acronis and ask them to help answer these questions, if possible to do so?
I ran into the same question, although the size was much smaller because I'm not backing up anywhere near as much as you are.
There are three factors at play here: your settings are probably keeping only a certain number of generations; the size of each of your backups has probably remained pretty much the same for quite a while; and the reported amount of space freed is only given to one decimal digit, so there is a rounding issue. If you think about it, that 175.9 GB could represent anything from 175,850 Mb to 175,949 Mb. That's quite a wide range, so the reported number won't change much unless your files are all huge.
In my case, I checked back in the logs and realized that the digit after the decimal point did change every once in a while.
I don't use the Acronis Cloud myself, but when I look at Bernard's cleanup rules, there are two things... 1) Store no more than 1 recent version, and 2) delete versions older than 1 week.Seems like these could be a bit contradictory. Does one rule take precedence over the other? Or do they run both rules?
If not storing more than 1 version, would that not mean that every time a new version is successfully written, the prior version would then be deleted?
Of course, I don't know what kind of backup scheme is being used so I'm just guessing, but if it was a full version of a Files/Folders backup each time and the total amount of data was 176GB, would that not explain it?