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ATI Home 11 - Ext drive filling up

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Hello, and thank you for your time.

I am presently using both ATI Home 11 and ATI Home 2010 on each of my office computers, repectively.

I was pleased to discover in the newer version (2010) that there was an option - during the creation of scheduled tasks - to prevent my external HDD from filling to the brim.

I have been unable to find such an option in ver. 11, other than an option to "Warn" when the space is getting to a specified percentage of use.

Does anyone know if there is, in fact, such an option in ATI 11 that I'm overlooking?

Again, thank you for your consideration~
Mel

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You can setup,

Maximum size,
Maximum number of images
Maximum time for images to be on disk.

You access it through the Backup Locations editing/creation

Check out chapter 8.1.2 of the user manual.

link to v11 manual

Hello,

Melvin, as Colin correctly mentioned, you can use Backup Locations to limit the number/size of your backups.

The main principles of backup location organization are:

  • automatic naming of backup files
  • addressing to a backup location as to a whole folder
  • automatic selection of backup mode (full, incremental, differential) in accordance with the backup policy set by the user for the scheduled backup tasks
  • automatic consolidation or deletion of outdated backup files in accordance with the rules set by the user

You can organize one or more backup locations and set the overall limitations to size/storage time for each. These include:

  • maximum storage space
  • maximum number of backups
  • maximum storage period for the archives

After creating a backup in a backup location, the program checks the location for quota violations, such as exceeding a pre-set maximum number of gigabytes set aside for backups and, if any limitation is exceeded, consolidates the oldest backups. For example, if you’ve pre-set your backup location to store 50GB of backup files and your backups reach 55GB, you have exceeded a quota and the system will respond automatically based on rules and policies that you’ve already set.
This operation creates a temporary file and thus requires disk space. Consider also that the quota must be violated so that the program could detect the fact of violation. Therefore, to be able to consolidate the files, the program needs some space on the disk in excess of the location quota. The extra space amount can be estimated as the size of the largest backup in the location.

Please reply to this thread if you need any additional assistance.

Colin, thank you for the help.