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Scheme to delete old backups when space needed

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I make a full backup every night. I want to keep backups from previous nights as long as possible. When space is needed on the backup drive, the oldest backup should be deleted. Is there a way to do this?

The Custom Scheme lets you keep X backups, or backups that are X days old, or up to X GB. But I don't see a way to keep old backups until space is needed.

I could specify the size of my backup drive, but I have 2 backup drives that I alternate every night, and they're different sizes.

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Sounds like you are limited to either an X number of backups or X days old. I know of no way to tell the app to keep backups until space is needed.