Expired media sets don't get deleted

[Dude16]

I am doing a "backup to disk" backup with a media set overwrite protection period of 4 weeks. As each media item falls out of its protected period I expect them to be deleted but they don't. I see that they become labeled as overwritable but they keep acumulating and the disk space is not freed on my drives. What am I doing wrong?

[pkh]

Media will not get deleted automatically.  This is by design.

I think your concern is why are they not re-used.  Check that you have set the following

Once this is set, your .bkf files will be overwritten before new ones are created.

[pkh]

If you want to delete any of the .bkf files, you need to associate them with the Retired Media Set, then right-click on them and select Delete.  After this, you can physically delete them from your disk.

[Dude16]

Will this setting propagate to all my existing jobs? I don't see this setting anywhere in the job itself.

[Larry_Fine]

Yes, this is a global setting.  If you want to quickly/temporarily free up disk space, you can do a quick erase on the overwritable media.  That reduces their disk usage to practically nothing.