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backup plan to simultainiously save to external drive not working as planned.

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Hi all,

I set up a backup plan to save data on an internal hard drive. I also selected the option to simultaneously save the archive onto an external drive.

The plan is set to delete archives from the internal drive that are older than 1 month but the same does not occur on the external drive.

Is this a bug or is it that not all of the plans settings apply to the simultaneous save on the external drive.

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 Hello Nelsonm

Thank you for posting your question, I will be happy to help. Please accept our apologies for the delay with the response. 

As far as I understood you, you are using the Dual destination option. 

The program behavior is normal. 

When dual destination is enabled, the agent will automatically copy each backup being created locally to the secondary destination such as a network share. Once the backup to the primary destination is completed, the agent compares the updated archive contents to the secondary archive contents, and copies to the secondary destination all backups that are missing there along with the new backup. Therefore, it is considered to be a copy/paste operation. Retention rules are applied to the primary destination only. 

Managed vaults and FTP servers are not supported as secondary destinations. 

Please do not hesitate to ask additional questions if the provided information is not clear or you need a further assistance. 

Thank you.