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Where are True Image 2014 Retention Rules?

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I am using Acronis True Image 2014 Premium, Build 6673.
Does this product/version have the option of specifying retention rules? All web and forum references I can find seem to refer to True Image 11.

I have a working incremental backup scheme, one full backup /week with six incrementals.
Old backups get deleted correctly after a month.

I would like to modify this scheme to move the backups that are two weeks old to another disk to free up storage on the "primary" backup drive but still have the ones moved to the "secondary" drive retained until they expire after a month as they do now.

Is this possible. If so, please tell me where to find this in the backup options settings.

Thanks

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Retentiion rules can be set by the user on a per task basis. This is one example.
User can control both the number of incremental which create the standalone chain as well as the number of chains to be kept on a rotating basis. However, it NOT possible to separate pieces of the chain and the backups continue.
You would probably be better of if you created two different tasks with each task pointing to a different storage disk.

You could make copies of backups and then delete the copies as the copies get old but the main host task needs to be set up as the example and let the program execute its own retention rules--whatever the user sets as "store x number of recent version chains."