Automatic Cleanup
Backup-Scheme: weekly, 5 days, 5 different HDD (for each day one HDD), fullbackup
Store no more than 70 recent versions.
Hello,
is there any known possibility to automatically delete more than one backupfile at the same time?
Reason behind: If Acronis does not find the file that is to delete, it will not delete the next one. It waits until the one that is to delete first has been found.
Thank you for your help.
Peter
Hi Steve, thank you for your answer.
Yes, it is a single task.
But let me try to explain it once again since my first post was a bit unprecise:
Assuming ATIH reached the limit of 70 fullbackup Versions:
Version 71 is done and V1 should be deleted but cannot be found on the drive attached.
V72 is done next day on a different HDD but V1 can still not be found. V2 could be deleted now since it is on the attached drive but unless V1 is still undeleted V2 will not be deleted.
The list of undeleted files is growing. When V1 is finally found and deleted, the search for V2 begins. The list of files marked for deletion is still growing. The backup-task will fail one day.
It should be easy to reprogram the deleting algorithm to delete all files that can be found on the attached drive irrespective of their chronological order, shouldn't it?
Your proposal of assigning each drive to a specific backup task means:
Monday-Job is assigned to Drive 1
Tue to Drive 2 and so on.
Do you think the problem mentioned above will be solved by that?
What happens if Drive 2 is not plugged in on Tuesday but Drive 1?
Thank you,
Peter
Peter, sorry but I do understand the problem that you are seeing, and this is being caused by using multiple drives with the backup task.
Acronis stores the unique drive identifier (UUID) for the drive used for the task in its database files, which is then checked when you run the backup again and when automatic cleanup is attempted. When you change the backup drive you are presenting a different UUID that doesn't match the value stored in the database, hence why Acronis will report that files cannot be found in the task logs.
Using multiple drives with multiple tasks, one per day per task, is the only way to guarantee correct operation including cleanup actions, but you would need to ensure that the correct backup drive was connected on the correct day.