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Reschedule or Disable Compact Task

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I have a requirement to be able to disable the Compact task but am unable to locate where this setting is in 12.5

There have been instances whereby I may have deleted backups that are no longer required but i subsequently need to seed a new server backup from a remote site that has a lot of similar data. I therefore do not want the compact to run as it will delete the unique data that I need to retain.

I was able to reschedule the compact task in 11.7 to accomodate for these requirements.

Does anyone have any ideas as to how I can achieve what I need?

Thanks in advance

Margaret 

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Hello Margaret!

If by compact task you mean a Cleanup task, you can edit a cleanup task and configure the retention rules on it to suit your needs. I'd set the retention of full backups to the longest time you may need to keep data for this seeding purpose and keep the differential and incremental backups for a shorter time.

While you decide on what and how long to keep data for seeding, you can disable the cleanup tasks alltogether.

See my attachments, where you can find these options.

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Hi Peter

Thank you for your prompt response.

To clarify, the compact task I am referring to is the vault or location compact which runs on a deduplication vault on Sunday's at 3am by default. But in 12.5 I cannot find where you can either disable it or re-schedule it.

In 11.7 these options were available when you looked at the Storage Node view.

Thanks

Margaret

I can't seem to find any way to modify when compacting occours either. The fact that "acrocmd compact" command works, but it's neither documented in the documentation of the command line tool for 12.5 (or 11.7), neither in the available commands acrocmd prints to the console, tells me it's discouraged to let users configure how it works. "acrocmd compact" doesn't seem to accept any kind of scheduling configuration either.

Is there a specific reason why you can't retain the data longer if you expect similar data to enter the deduplicated vault soon?

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Hello Margaret,

thanks for posting on Acronis forums.

I suggest that you create a backup of the data that remain before compacting task will start on Sunday.

There is no possibility to either disable or reschedule compacting in the 12.5 version like it was in Acronis Backup 11.7. It automatically starts when ~10% of the data in the datafile is unused.

Thank you Peter and Maria for your responses.

Sometimes for capacity reasons I need to delete some backups from a vault to release enough disk space before seeding a new backup.

Unfortunately, I have found a number of functions / features previously available in 11.7 are no longer available in 12.5. When working with a product in a large enterprise environment, an engineer requires some flexibility in the product. When features we have been utilising are removed, it is not only frustrating but more time and effort is required to manage the environment.

Is it possible to raise a feature request with developer team?

In the meantime I will try to work around this issue by increasing the threshold temporarily.

Thank you

Margaret

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Hello Margaret.

Thank you for this suggestion. I have sent this feature request to the respective team.

Thank you Maria

Are you able to advise epic number once the request is approved?

Thank you

Margaret

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Hello Margaret.

I will post here it's number as soon as I get it.

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Hello Margaret,

here is the number for the feature request ABR-141108 (ASN: vault commands in Console).