Acronis BR 11.5: Does not delete the older backups, free space is filling up

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Hello, I am running the latest version of ABR 11.5.32308 and I have conigured a backup plan to backup my workstation 3 times a week and to delete the backups older than 7days.

The backup plan is really simple, full backup of drive C to my other HDD in the workstation, 3 times a week at night, and delete the backups older than 7 days.
But it does not work, I have been forced so far to delete (using the acronis GUI) the older backs.
What is wrong anyway,
I am thinking of using the simplified name procedure and let Acronis overwrite the older backups. Will it work?

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Sat, 11/24/2012 - 14:49
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First, now the last backup is exactly 7 days old. Did you let it create one more backup to check if it deletes the last one then? If it doesn't work, it's wrong because it should.
With simplified naming you will have only one full per backup, in case if you do not use [date] template. As you have full backup scheme, this means one backup at all - the latest. With [date] template you will have to delete older manually using some script, in pre-, post- backup command or run independently by schedule.

Sat, 11/24/2012 - 17:44
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Well actually it keeps all backups, but I deleted some to free space, i have tested up to 13 days and HDD was almost full.
I was thinking to create 3 backup plans (tuesday, thursday,saturday) with simplified name so it can ovewrite, instead of using the current backup plan which runs every tuesday,thursday and saturday.

In general I just want to have only the latest 3 backups available for my workstation. Will the 3 seperate backup plans with simplified name work (overwrite themselves every time they run)?

Thanks

Sat, 11/24/2012 - 18:07
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Three separate backup plans with simplified naming will do the job, but while backup task is in progress and the previous backup is already deleted, you will have only two valid backups.

Sat, 11/24/2012 - 19:38