Salta al contenuto principale

Number of backups in the archive exceeds

Thread needs solution

i'm confused by this feature.
regardless if i run incremental or differential backup Monday thru Thursday.
full backup on Friday.

if i set the "Number of backups in the archive exceeds" to 6 does this mean i only have 1 full backup and 5 differential? or does it mean i have 6 full backups?

0 Users found this helpful

Hello herb auld,

Thank you for posting this question in our forum. I am happy to assist you. 

Retention rules are working on the full backups, but of course delete also incremental or differential backups. You need at least two full backups in order to get the retention rules working. See more information in our user guide or in this article of our knowledge base.

I suggest using short time sets. If you perform a full backup only once a week, you can set the time to wait to one day. The same works for number of backups. The depending backups deleted after sucessfully creation of the next full backups.

If you need additional assistance, please create a system report of the affected machine and contact support. You will find all available support options in our Customer handbook.

If there is anything else we can do for you, please let me know.

Thank you.