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Deleting Buckupfiles

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Hello!

I do have settlings like those:

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That means, old backupfiles should be automatically deleted when older than 7 days.

But, as shown here, they are not deleted.

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What do I do wrong?

Thank you for your help!

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Franz, welcome to these User Forums.

When you use the automatic cleanup option to delete backup version chains older than 7 days, the count does not begin until the next new Full backup of a new version chain has been successfully created.

So, looking at your screen shot of files still present, it looks likely that you have been modifying the Backup Scheme settings as you have also configured to create a new Full backup after creating 5 incremental files but your older B10 chain has 8 incremental files shown (s2 - s9).

One of the side effects of making changes in this area is that it resets the version chain count.

Your configuration settings should look like shown below:

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Note that the top option should show as 'Custom' along with having Incremental for the method and the cleanup settings.

Thanks Franz, glad to help.