Clarify NonStop Backup Retention Logic
I started using NonStop Backup on ATI 2020 (because it didn't work on ATI 2019).
Reading the "Retention Rules" in https://www.acronis.com/en-us/support/documentation/ATI2020/index.html#13720.html we see this:
Retention rules
Local backups
Acronis Nonstop Backup keeps all backups for the last 24 hours. The older backups will be consolidated in such a way that Nonstop Backup will keep daily backups for the last 30 days and weekly backups until all Nonstop Backup data destination space is used.
I have an NSB routine active, I'm using it for almost two weeks, however it's not showing me more than TWO DAYS:
What's wrong?


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This NSB is storing on my c: drive, occupying currently 17Gb and the drive has 100Gb free space.
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Thanks for the reply, seems strange if there is plenty of free space available. I have no need to use NSB so will need to leave this to see if someone else has any ideas to help you?
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I have an NSB routine active, I'm using it for almost two weeks, however it's not showing me more than TWO DAYS:
I'm confused. I see the consolidated daily going back to 8/26 up through last night. That seems correct. Well, other than there's a gap from 9/3 to 9/6 (yesterday). Was the machine on the entire time, or was it powered off or hibernating? If not, I suspect the NSB service may have stopped, or may not have started when the system booted up for some reason. You might want to change the service from automatic to automatic-delayed, just in case. That will give it about 2 more minutes to start up before failing to start at all.
What I don't see is the hourly's for the current day. You might check the recovery tab and start a mock recovery (but don't go through with it) to see if it gives you the option to recover from today's hourly's too.
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On the screen shot you share, I can see "my computer" to be recovered, so it suggests this is an entire PC backup (ie a partition backup).
Is the nonstop backup task set up to backup the c:\ partition or is it set up to backup some folders of c:\?
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