BEData shrinks data - But should not.

[lnino1982]

Hi at all,

I am using Symantec Backup Exec 2014 on Windows Server 2008 R2.

I have a B2D target where I backup my fileserver.

On the job I made the setting to keep the data for 8 days.

But every morning when look into the folder I can only see the bkf files of the last 2 days.

When I look some time later into the folder only the backup files of the last day is there.

Maybe an older value is active? It could be possible that I have set it at the beginnging to 1 day.

But how can I check? Shall I create a job new? Or can I check it somewhere why my b2d is getting smaller and smaller. :(

[pkh · Accepted solution]

The retention period is set when the backup set is created by the job. You can retain it by right-clicking on the disk storage and then the backup set in the Storage tab. After you change the retention period, it will only take effect after the change

[lnino1982]

Thanks for your reply. Now I understand, the backups got the expiration date from the old settings.

Now I can see that the backup from yesterday and the day before have a much higher expiration date.

This helped a lot.