Automatic cleanup
ATI 2018: I can't find any place to set up automatic cleanup for a custom differential backup.


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In reply to Mark, welcome to these User… by truwrikodrorow…

Thanks!! I knew that, but what I didn't know was that you have to be using "Create full version after every __ differential versions." I thought you could get automatic cleanup of no-longer-needed differentials within a chain. I gather now that it will only clean up whole chains. Thanks again!
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Mark, I would recommend submitting Feedback to Acronis via the tool in the Help section of the GUI to ask for cleanup of differentials as this would be a useful feature.
Currently, the only way to do this automatically is as whole version chains, but you could do some manual cleanup of unwanted differentials provided you run a Validation for the task that created them afterwards, this is needed to reconcile the database information which tracks these files.
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In reply to Mark, I would recommend… by truwrikodrorow…

Thanks again, Steve. I'm doing what's in your second paragraph, but would much rather it be automated. Will do what you suggest in your first paragraph.
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