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Nysoh
Level 5
14 years ago

Disk is Full - How to Delete Old Backup Jobs

Hi All, We have 12TB of Disk space using BE2010, disk is now 92%. I set the option the option to delete overwritable backups few weeks ago. Disk space looks like paus there and not expanding any fu...
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  • RahulG's avatar
    RahulG
    14 years ago

    At the moment ,you can move the old media to scratch media set and the backup job would continue overwriting the bkf file from the scratch media set.

    To avoid this sitiuvation , create media set with proper overwrite and append period so the older media gets rotated automatically .

Nysoh's avatar
Nysoh
Level 5
14 years ago

Those backups for 5 weeks and scratch them after 5 weeks,

Options->Media Management -> Select use recycable is already selected, but it was selected few one and half month ago.

can you you advise - about last years backups - how can I check them and what is the procedure to erase them.