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Dual backup and retention

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Hello

We are looking at doing dual backups with grandfather, father, son retention.
As the retention does not apply to the second backup, does it just keep fulling up?

Do you have any recommendations on how to manage the retention on the second backup.

Andrew

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Hello Andrew,

Thank you for posting and I would like to welcome you to our forum.

I am not sure that the Dual Destination option would be useful for you, it does not support retention rules for the secondary location.

I can also suggest this workaround. After creating your primary backups and completing the retention rules, you can try using scripts to export those backups to a secondary location. Please check page 31 of this guide for more information.

If you need additional help or have any other questions, please let me know.

Thank you.

Anton, (or any support)

Josh here,

Please let me know if the latest version of Acronis now supports retention rules for the secondary backup location.

We are needing to know ASAP if we should purchase the latest edition, depending on this feature, so please reply ASAP.

Hello Intelligis User,

Thank you for bringing this up, I will definitely help you with this question.

At the moment retention rules as such are not available with Dual destination, this feature simply moves the backup files from the main backup location to the secondary. However, we are reworking this feature and the next version of Acronis Backup and Recovery 10 will have a much improved dual destination option.

I am very sorry for the inconvenience.

Thank you for very much for your interest and if you have additional questions, please let me know.

Thank you.