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

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Mark, welcome to these User Forums.

In order to see the Automatic Cleanup options you need to select a backup scheme that creates new backup version chains, not keep the default option to only create differential backups after the initial full backup for the scheme.

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In reply to 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!

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.

In reply to 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.