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[bucksarge]

Hello,

I have a backup task that runs nightly.  I've set the maximum number of backups to be retained at three.  Today I noticed I have 6 backups instedad of three in the Norton Backup Folder on my external backup drive.

What am I missing and how do I accomplish my goal of maintaining only three backups?  I'm running out of space on my backup drive.

Regards

[dickevans Super RootKit Eradicator]

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bucksarge wrote:

Hello,

I have a backup task that runs nightly.  I've set the maximum number of backups to be retained at three.  Today I noticed I have 6 backups instedad of three in the Norton Backup Folder on my external backup drive.

What am I missing and how do I accomplish my goal of maintaining only three backups?  I'm running out of space on my backup drive.

Regards

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Hi,

Can you give us a bit more detail about your backup set - just the usual who, what, where, why and how many.

Thanks

[bucksarge]

Hello,

Yes, I'm, nightly, backing up the data drive (F) of my computer.  This is a 400 Gig partition on a 500 gig mirrored drive, which has 250 Gig of data (music, docs, etc.).  The OS partition (100 Gig) is backed up monthly.

The backup is on an external 1 TB USB drive (E).  Why?........Computing discipline.

I've set the maximum number of backups to be 3 and I'm sitting on 6 retained backups.

I've deleted the task and re-established it.  I'll get back to you on if this solves the problem.........Monday afternoon.

Thanks for your input, Dick.

Regards,

Bucksarge

[DaveH]

The setting is for backup sets, not individual backups.

A "set" is the base image and all the incrementals that go with it.

For instance, if your backup is set to make a base image weekly and incrementals the other 6 days of the week, a setting of 3 will be for 3 weeks and you end up with 21 actual files.  3 base images and 18 incrementals.

Dave

[bucksarge]

Dave,

Thanks for your input.

The task I've established is to perform a complete backup nightly Mon - Sun. No incremental backups.  So, if I understand you correctly, and I hope I do, I should only be maintaining 3 backups total......correct?

Sorry for my confusion.

Bucksarge

[DaveH]

Yes, your correct if thats how you have it set.

It should only keep 3 backups then.  It does however need the space availible for one more because Ghost will create the 4'th before deleting the oldest one but you should only have 3 present.

Dave

edit-  The 6 backups you have right now, are they all consecutive days or do you have 3 old ones that somehow didn't get removed but since then it's been working properly?

[bucksarge]

Hello Dave,

Good question.  That's why I deleted the present task and re-established it.  I've also deleted (through Norton) all previous backups except one.  I'll know more on Monday afternoon.

Regards,

Bucksarge

[bucksarge]

Just want to report all is well and working as I want after I deleted and re-established the task.

I'm guessing "user error" was the culprit.

Regards

[dickevans Super RootKit Eradicator]

Glad to hear all is well.

If you ever meet him your 'user error' is named Murphy.

Stay well and surf safe