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Simple / Custom and consolidation

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Trying to understand consolidation and how to avoid it.  

Does Simple with n days retention imply consolidation as a default method of retention?  No way to get around it - consolidation.

While Custom with n days retention will actually delete old backups unless consolidation is selected under advanced retention options?

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Hello rkh,

Thank you for your question! The backup scheme "Simple" allows you to select between two types of backup (Full type and Incremental type). If you select "Full", then only full backups without dependancies will be created and the consolidation is not used in this case. If you select "Incremental", then at the first time a full backup will be created and the next backups will be always incremental. Since there is no way to create full backups on schedule in this scheme, backup consolidation will be used to clean up incremental backups and overcome the limitation for deletion backups with dependancies.

In the Custom scheme you can configure how often a full backup will be created and the software will delete incremental backups based on the previous full backups.

Thank you,