automaticaly deleting indepent recovery point

[Yev]

Hello,

on 2 extern usb hard disks I backup all workdays of the week independ.

On the hard disk I have the following folders

monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday

I swap this hard drives every other week.

Now my question :  I am always getting hard disk full errors, because previous recovery points aren't overwritten.  Do I have to delete the hard disks manually or is there a way to do this automatically?

I use System recorvery 2013

[criley]

Within the backup job, how many recovery points have you specified to keep?

And have you just defined one job or 5 jobs (Monday, Tuesday etc...)?

[Yev]

I have defined 5 jobs

and I just specified to keep 1 recovery point for each job

[criley]

What size are these USB drives?

And if you combine the 5 recovery points for each day of the week, what is the total size?

[Yev]

The size of the USB drive 931 GB.

On another internal drive I just made a weekly base of an recovery point set and the size is 303GB.

[criley]

So each recovery point is approx 300GB?

5 x 300GB will not fit on a 1TB drive...

[Yev]

Indeed but isn't there a way to automatically deleted the older independent recovery points already in the disk from the previous backups.  Or to just overwrite these?

[criley]

Yes, but the way it works is this:

New backup must be created before existing recovery point is removed. So, if you specify to keep 1 recovery point, the reality is that you need enough space for 2.

Is there a reason why you are doing full backups every day?

[Yev]

Ok thanks for the response

I Have another question

I have set up a  backup set the makes a weekly base on monday 22.00 pm.

incrementals on tuesday, wednesday, thursday at 22 pm

Now I want  the same backup to run on friday on 16.00 pm not at 22.00 pm

Is that possible?

[criley]

Do you mean you want the same job to run Tues/Weds/Thurs @ 22:00 and then Fri @ 16:00? Not possible I'm afraid.

There is an option to set a custom schedule for when it creates a new set (base) but you cannot set different times for the incrementals.

[Yev]

Ok thanks,

I will create a diffenrent weekly backup for friday then.

[criley]

Please mark this thread as solved if I have answered all your questions.

If you have further questions, please start a new thread. Thanks..