Backing up to Drive E: and Acronis is trying to prune F:

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Can someone please enlighten me as to the reason why I backup to E:, use a post command batch file to copy the backup to drive F: for redundancy then 1 week later when the backup happens again Acronis deletes the copy on F: never touching the original backup on E: causing my drive to forever fill up and backups to eventually fail because it never prunes its damn backup correctly!?!??!?

I've delete the whole backup schedule and all backups 3 times, and recreated it all from scratch and it just KEEPS HAPPENING!!!!

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 13:01
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I've been able to remedy the situation using a few robocopy commands to delete files on the original disk older than 7 days BEFORE copying to my other drive. The fact I have to do this is just irritating though. The program should not delete files from ANYWHERE except the original backup location ever!

Here is the script:

set _robodel=%TEMP%\~robodel
MD %_robodel%
ROBOCOPY "Path to Backups" %_robodel% /move /minage:7
del %_robodel% /q
robocopy E:\ F:\ /MIR /R:0 /W:0

You must change "Path to backups" to your path and the drive letters to the drive letters you are using.
the script creates a folder in your temp folder, copies all files older than 7 days to that folder then deletes it. Then the backup mirrors the drive to the other drive for backup redundancy. I'm basically pruning backups manually since Acronis is ...unable and unwilling to do it correctly!

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 14:34