07-26-2014 06:39 AM
I have configured a Backup job which does backup one Server on BE Local Disk. I have set Retention Preiod for 2 Days, and Life Cycle 2 days. but its not overwriting the old backup sets.
Since I am really short in sotrage, I want following...
Option A >
Day 1 > Full Backup Set 1
Day 2 > Overwrite Backup Set 1
Day 3 > Overwrite Backup Set 1
and so on , it should overwrite same backup set every time for same job.
Option B >
Day 1 > Full Backup Set 1
Day 2 > Full Backup Set 2
Day 3 > Overwrite Backup Set 1
Day 4 > Overwrite Backup Set 2
so that I can have two backup sets for best practcies,
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08-20-2014 09:34 AM
To turn off protection for the last backups (not recommended, but if you insist):
Backup exec button -> Backup Exec Settings -> Storage -> Data management -> Check Allow Backup Exec to delete all exipred backup sets.
There will be a huge warning that pops up, but it will allow you to control your data removal instead of backup exec keeping what you believe to be irrelavent data sets around.
07-26-2014 09:01 AM
08-20-2014 04:16 AM
I can see that backup is still not overwriting,
Following are my settings.
08-20-2014 04:44 AM
08-20-2014 09:34 AM
To turn off protection for the last backups (not recommended, but if you insist):
Backup exec button -> Backup Exec Settings -> Storage -> Data management -> Check Allow Backup Exec to delete all exipred backup sets.
There will be a huge warning that pops up, but it will allow you to control your data removal instead of backup exec keeping what you believe to be irrelavent data sets around.