Ok, I have been pulling my hair out every time my new backup set starts (whether it is weekly, monthly, or whatever).
Even though I clearly have the backup destination settings to have Ghost automatically optimize old backup data, it will NOT.
Normally, I have a base backup set monthly at 1 AM, and then run incrementals every day of the week at 1 AM. When the first of the next month comes around, my backups always fail because there is not enough room on the destination. Ghost is clearly trying to store another base backup (which is the only way it could run out of space).
What I have to do is manually go in and delete out the entire previous backup set (the base and the incrementals).
What am I doing wrong here? I would think the process would be:
1) Ghost starts the new backup set at the beginning of tthe month. Ghost looks at the backup destination (a 1TB exernal drive with about 300MB free after all of the backups from the previous month) - and deletes the old backup set
2) Ghost then creates the new base backup on the destination.
Why isn't this working? I have recently tried to change it to creating a new base backup weekly (in order to cut out relying on so many incrementals), but that failed on my last night as well.
Thanks
Rob Catron
That is what I was afraid of. I guess that makes sense, actually (that ghost will not leave you without a backup) I’ll figure something out. Thanks Rob
How big is your base? If it were - let's say - 300GB, you could try setting the storage limit on your destination drive to 600 GB to force Ghost to more aggressively consolidate and delete the daily incrementals, leaving space for the next base. Whether or not that will work depends I guess on how much of the 700GB at the end of each month is incrementals vs. base.
The best answer would be a 2TB backup drive :)
Oh, let me tell you - the 2tb drive was the first thing that popped in my mind 
Ok, I have been pulling my hair out every time my new backup set starts (whether it is weekly, monthly, or whatever).
Even though I clearly have the backup destination settings to have Ghost automatically optimize old backup data, it will NOT.
Normally, I have a base backup set monthly at 1 AM, and then run incrementals every day of the week at 1 AM. When the first of the next month comes around, my backups always fail because there is not enough room on the destination. Ghost is clearly trying to store another base backup (which is the only way it could run out of space).
What I have to do is manually go in and delete out the entire previous backup set (the base and the incrementals).
What am I doing wrong here? I would think the process would be:
1) Ghost starts the new backup set at the beginning of tthe month. Ghost looks at the backup destination (a 1TB exernal drive with about 300MB free after all of the backups from the previous month) - and deletes the old backup set
2) Ghost then creates the new base backup on the destination.
Why isn't this working? I have recently tried to change it to creating a new base backup weekly (in order to cut out relying on so many incrementals), but that failed on my last night as well.
Thanks
Rob Catron