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Full Hard disk, how to delete old backup files.

dialinfo
Level 3
Partner

I have BE2014 on windows 2008 r2. The Job runs every saturday at 23.00: first saturday of the week is a full job, the second saturday is an incremental job, the third is a full job and the fourth is an incremental job.

I need to retain two full and two incremental backups. After this the first full backup must be deleted to have enough space to repeat the circle. BE can delete also the first incremental backup (that is orphane of first full backup).

Data retention is 1 week.

The question is how to delete automatically older full backup before new mounth backup starts.

 

Thank you.

Enrico

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VJware
Level 6
Employee Accredited Certified

I would recommend a good read of this article which explains DLM - https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/articles/automated-disk-management-and-data-retention-backup-exec-dlm-or-data-lifecycle-management

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VJware
Level 6
Employee Accredited Certified

I would recommend a good read of this article which explains DLM - https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/articles/automated-disk-management-and-data-retention-backup-exec-dlm-or-data-lifecycle-management

pkh
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You should read this blog https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/blogs/data-lifecycle-management-be-2012 and my article below may be of interest https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/articles/when-backup-sets-are-deleted-under-dlm