Deleting Old Backup Chains
I have ATI 2017 Build 8053.
I have a full backup job that is configured to do incremenatal backups with a full version after every 5.
I thought that I had configured automatic cleanup, but I noticed that the backup volume was getting full and when I checked, automatic cleanup was off.
I've now configured automatic cleanup to store no more than 4 recent version chains ... but there are currently 8 version chains (and it's working on the 9th).
Now that I've configured automatic cleanup, will the old chains be pruned as soon as the next scheduled backup starts or will I have to manually delete them? If I have to delete them manually, how do I do that?


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Thanks for the quick response.
After I enabled automatic cleanup, it did another incremental and did not clean up the old chains. That was the 4th of the 5 incremenatals, so I'll wait for the next incremental, which will be followed by a full backup. Fortunately, the backup volume has enough space to deal with this, so I'll wait until after the current version chain is completed before doing any manual deletions.
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Pete, that should do the trick and automatic cleanup should run when the next full backup is created successfully.
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