Why does Acronis remove a whole chain of backups when auto clean-up is enabled
Hi everyone
I currently have the following backup scheme
- Incremental
- Create a full backup after 4 incremental backups
- Don't save more than one backup chain
Now what I was expecting Acronis to do is this.
- Create full backup #1
- Create incremental backup #1.1
- Create incremental backup #1.2
- Create incremental backup #1.3
- Create incremental backup #1.4
- Create full backup #2
- Remove incremental backup #1.1 // Create incremental backup #2.1
- Remove incremental backup #1.2 // Create incremental backup #2.2
- Remove incremental backup #1.3 // Create incremental backup #2.3
- Remove full backup #1 and incremental backup #1.4 // Create incremental backup #2.4
However, prior to creating full backup #2, Acronis removes the whole backup chain #1, leaving me with just one backup left.
Is there a way to achieve my desired scheme? Am I using the wrong backup method here? Should I switch to differential to achieve this?
Thanks for any help.


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Hi Steve
Thanks for your detailed explanation. Definitely cleared things up.
But then it could work with the differential backup method, right? Since those backups only rely on the previous full backup, removing them one by one should leave the chain intact, correct?
BR
Marius
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Marius, you are correct about the differential backups only relying on the initial full backup of the version chain, but Acronis does not provide a cleanup rule that will allow for differentials to be removed in the way you ask, which would work provided the full backup was retained.
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