Hello all,
I'm working with a client who has a specific need for 2 years worth of retention for *almost* all of their backup sets.
~7 months ago, we configured a job to capture their critical data with a 2 year retention period. For the last 7 months, everything has run as expected without issue until the 6TB external drive in question ran out of space.
After reviewing the backups, we've determined that there are two specific folders that are generating a significant amount of new data daily. As luck would have it, those two specific folders do NOT need to be included in their 2 year retention.
I've removed those folders from the existing job and spun them off into a new job with a 14 day retention.
Of course, now my problem is that the there are TBs of old backups of these folders that we don't need and are consuming a huge amount of disk space, putting us critically low.
Is there a way to manually or programmatically remove all instances of that specific folder from old backup sets within a certain job?
Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated!