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TI2014 Incremental not working as described

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My backup method is set to "Incremental" and it's set to create a full version after every 2 incremental versions. Yet that doesn't seem to happen - it just keeps creating incremental versions indefinitely (4 so far after the initial full backup).

I noticed this some weeks ago as well, deleted all my current backups, deleted all the backup jobs and recreated them and the same thing is happening.

In my mind, with the settings I have there, TI is supposed to do this over time:
Full 1
Inc 1.1
Inc 1.2
Full 2
Inc 2.1
Inc 2.2
Full 3
Inc 3.1
Inc 3.2
(at this stage it should delete version chain 1 because there are now 3 version chains on disk and I said to store no more than 2)
Full 4
Inc 4.1
Inc 4.2
(delete version chain 2)
...

What am I missing?

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Any chance you may have edited the task after its original creation or did you do a restore recently?

Yes, it should have created chain 1 (1 full plus 2 inc)
Then created chain 2 (1 full plus 2 inc)
Then created the full for chain 3 and immediately deleted chain 1 of 3 files, leaving the full chain 2 and the beginning of chain 3.

If you made changes or upgraded your version, let it go for few days longer and see if it corrects itself.
If it does not correct itself, then create a new task pointing to an empty storage folder.
My preference is never to make changes to a task and not to mix backup files inside a single folder. If the task needs correction, I make a practice of creating a new task and starting new. Using these personal rules, my tasks always work.

Indeed, I'm fairly sure I did edit the backup job settings after I set it going originally. Still seems odd that it doesn't do a reconcile of what files are already there and what it's doing that's new though - this can create some serious disk space issues quite quickly if it continues :)

I'll give it a while and see what happens, thanks GroverH.