Acronis 2012 outdated backup cleanup fails
hello,
I wish to limit the number of full backups on my drive to 5 backups. I have correctly scheduled a weekly backup which works well. I have also selected store no more than 5 recent versions. This feaure doesn not work at all and the backups keep growing in number until the disk is full and all new backups fail. The I must delete old backups manually to make room on the HD. What is wrong? Can you suggest a solution? I am running Win 7 home premium, x64 on MSI quad core mainboard, 2 500GB internal SATA Hard disks, 8gb ram. Acronis 2012 build 6124. Thank you.
Oak11,
Some users have had issues with the full backup custom scheme. Try this:
- move the TIB files you want to keep to another directory on the same disk,
- empty the current backup directory,
- delete the current faulty backup task,
- create a new task.
If the problem subsists, empty the backup directory again and create a new alternate task with the following parameters:
* custom backup scheme
* incremental
* create a new full after one incremental
* auto-cleaning on
* store no more than 5 most recent chains
thanks, I have done as suggested but can only update to build 6154 and not build 7119 as suggested. Not sure why. Any ideas?
Go to your Acronis.com account to verify which build is available to you. Whenever you update, first uninstall the current build, then install.
There were issues with the updates to the 7119 build, but it looks like Acronis has solved them with the 7133 build (more recent than 7119).
Nevertheless, uninstall before updating. Safer.
You can export your backup settings before uninstall to avoid recreating all your tasks.
What I do in these cases is the following: I move the TIB files created with an older build/version to some other directory, to make sure that each whole chain has been created with the same build/version.
Of course, ATI will create new backups as it finds the backup directories empty, and you will have to manually clean up the olders files later.
Oak11,
Check out figure 11-full at the link suggested by James in post #1. Change the desired number of retained backup versions to 5 if that is your choice.
Suggest you start a new task point to a new empty destination folder. Avoid editing a task as editing can cause unpredictable results and has been know to cause a task not to function correctly.