Maximum Number of Backups in Ghost 15

bucksarge · ‎05-05-2012

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 · ‎04-08-2008

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

Hi,

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

Thanks

Dick
Win7x64 SP1 current NIS V20

bucksarge · ‎05-05-2012

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 · ‎01-06-2010

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 · ‎05-05-2012

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 · ‎01-06-2010

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 · ‎05-05-2012

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