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ATI 2018: I can't find any place to set up automatic cleanup for a custom differential backup.

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Mark, welcome to these User Forums.

In order to see the Automatic Cleanup options you need to select a backup scheme that creates new backup version chains, not keep the default option to only create differential backups after the initial full backup for the scheme.

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En réponse à par truwrikodrorow…

Thanks!!  I knew that, but what I didn't know was that you have to be using "Create full version after every __ differential versions."  I thought you could get automatic cleanup of no-longer-needed differentials within a chain. I gather now that it will only clean up whole chains.  Thanks again!

Mark, I would recommend submitting Feedback to Acronis via the tool in the Help section of the GUI to ask for cleanup of differentials as this would be a useful feature.

Currently, the only way to do this automatically is as whole version chains, but you could do some manual cleanup of unwanted differentials provided you run a Validation for the task that created them afterwards, this is needed to reconcile the database information which tracks these files.

En réponse à par truwrikodrorow…

Thanks again, Steve.  I'm doing what's in your second paragraph, but would much rather it be automated. Will do what you suggest in your first paragraph.