Cyber Protect cloud backup and cleanup logic
I just upgraded my TI2020 to Cyber Protect to get the latest cloud support. After a few partition "test" backups to the cloud it appears to be doing a "full" backup followed by only "incremental" backups. I later found this documented. This is fine and to be expected.
My real question is what happens when I limit the number of versions. I could not find a good discussion of this. After a full backup, I set the version limit to 2 and did another backup (2nd). Looking at the cleanup option for the backup it showed a full and inc backup with the timestamps for each. After doing a 3rd backup (incremental), cleanup still showed a full and inc backup, but the "full" backup now had the timestamp of the 2nd incremental backup and a new incremental backup had been created. It appears that cleanup after the 3rd backup "merged" the 2nd backup (incremental) into the original "full" backup to create a new "full" backup and then deleted the original "full" backup to satisfy my 2 version cleanup limit. If I understand this correctly, it makes a lot of sense to me, but I would have liked to see it documented somewhere.
Can anyone confirm the cleanup logic that I think I'm seeing AND point me to somewhere where it's documented?? I don't want to have unlimited versions taking up space, but I also want to know what happens when the version limit is reached.
Thanks
Bob


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Hello everybody!
Thanks Steve for providing accurate answers as always.
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Thanks Steve for the good description of what's happening. It works pretty much as I expected. I'm still going to do a little more testing before I set up my scheduled backups to the cloud.
I've been using the product since TI2009 and have had good success with it. I have lots of local backups, but wanted to go one step further with offsite backups as well. If I have any questions in the future, I'll be sure to post them here.
Thanks again.
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