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Acronis Backup Advanced 11.7 - consolidation

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Hi,

 

If i have 1 full backup from the start and follow by 5 incremental and weekly differential what will happen to the first week backup if i set the clean up archive to retained 10 backup.

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Hello Jerico,

The software will consolidate the backup that is subject to deletion or movement, with the next dependent backup. For example, the retention rules require to delete a full backup but to retain the next incremental one. The backups will be combined into a single full backup which will be dated with the incremental backup date.

In other words, the first full backup will be merged with the next incremental backup and as the result of this operation you will have one new full backup insead of 1 Full + 1 Incremental. Other backups in the chain will not be touched untill they are subject to the retention rules. 

Note: the resulting backup will not contain data that was present in the deleted backup and was absent from the retained incremental or differential backup.