Hi,
I have a backup vmware in storage disk and keep for 7 day, i see that backup remains by more 20 day in the storage disk. I need the backup with more than 7 day are purged from disk storage by have little room.
Thank you in advance for your replies
Have you configured your backup jobs to overwrite instead of appending.
Hello Arnold,
is set to "Keep for" is storing to local disk, when work with disk storage appending and overwrite options not displayed.
Regards,
José
Do you have incr/diff backups set up as well apart from full ? If yes, what number of days are set for keeping the backup sets ?
Lasltly, have you set the retain option on any backup sets ?
In BE 2012, backup sets on disk storage are managed by new feature Data Lifecycle Management (DLM). Please see the below blog for more details on DLM and see if your backup sets fullfill these crietrias.
https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/blogs/data-lifecycle-management-be-2012
Hello V.Jware,
Only work with full and option "Keep for" is in 7 day.
Were is set the retain option?
Regards,
José
From the Storage tab, click on Backup Sets and right-click the backup set which has not expired as expected...and see if Retain is checked or not...
Hi VJware,
The retain option is not cheked,
Is this the only backup set present ? Or is the latest backup set ?
why the backup set are not delete when your time expiration ended
If the backup set chain is last recovery chain on your setup then as a protection this chain is not deleted even though the expiration date has reached. If this is your case and want to turn off this particular behavior check this http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH187957
The backup set is also not deleted if any of the dependent backup sets are not expired. For eg. if you have Full backup B1 and Incremental backups I1, I2, I3, I4. Then till backup set I4 does not expire the rest of the backup sets B1, I1, I2, I3 are not deleted even though they might have expired.
Hope this helps.
