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When are old incremental backups removed?

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I have my backup set to create a new full backup every so often, but I kind of expected it to remove the incremental backups from the old backup, otherwise the backup disk is going to get rather full.  

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Perhaps it is related to the following error in the backup log:

2017-10-01T07:43:16:884+00:00 16936 I00180000: Preparing the media...
017-10-01T07:43:16:885+00:00 16936 E0004000F: Error 0x4000f: Canceled.
| trace level: error
| line: 0x37dcad4ee29f401
| file: k:\51\builder\lib\fdd_builder.cpp:512
| function: RemovableBuilder::PrepareMedia
| line: 0x37dcad4ee29f401, k:\51\builder\lib\fdd_builder.cpp:512, RemovableBuilder::PrepareMedia
| $module: ti_demon_vs_9660
2017-10-01T07:43:16:896+00:00 16936 I000B03F0: Create Backup Archive From:      Recovery (2-1), FAT32 (2-2), NTFS (C:) To file: "nas://WDMYCLOUD/nasbackup/CUBE/My partitions.tib" Compression: Normal 

Looks like the full backup was triggered due to the error.

I will have to keep my eye on this one.

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Austin, incremental backups will only be removed as part of automatic cleanup which in turn works only on completed version chains.

So from your image of the files you have, a completed version chain would be all the files sharing the same _b2_ indicator in the file names, so the initial _full_b2_ file and all the associated _inc_b2_ files.

When automatic cleanup runs depends on the settings for your task, so for example, if you set the task to 'Store no more than 2 recent version chains' then the oldest chain will be deleted after you have created the 3rd full backup file for the next version chain successfully.