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Backups rapidly eat up all available space despite retention policies

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Hello,

We are currently running BackupExec 15 on server 2008 R2 and backing up to a 14TB NAS across the network. We started with the following backup scheme...

Annual - Full - Keep 12 months

Bi Annual - Full - Keep 12 months

Weekly - Full - Keep 12 weeks

Daily - Differential - Keep 12 weeks

We are backing up five servers with similar schemes. I found that despite the storage retention settings, older backups were not getting pruned. To test this we slashed the 12 week retentions down to four. Older backups still accumulated. Am I mistaken that shortening the retention policies should also remove older backups? I can provide more info if needed.

Mark

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