Michael Mansour wrote: > I'm wondering why the full backups numbered 2 are not going back down to 1 to > free up some space on the server? > > In the glbal Schedule, I have the following: > > FullPeriod: 6.97 > FullKeepCnt: 1 > FullKeepCntMin: 1 > FullAgeMax: 7 > > and it's my understanding that backuppc should cycle those full backups above > to trash because of the above globals yes? > >
It depends on how many *incrementals* you have, too. The number of backups you keep will be the FullKeepCnt + IncrKeepCnt, plus any fulls that must be kept to support those incrementals. So, it's possible you ask for a certain number of full backups on a schedule that are kept, but in order for you to retain the incrementals specified, extra baseline full backups are kept as well. So, in your above situation, if you specify 1 FullKeepCnt, if you have ANY incrementals saved, once a new full is taken, the last incremental will be *older* than the most recent full backup, so the full backup just prior to the incremental must be kept as well, resulting in 2 fulls, 1 incremental. Does that make sense? JH ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
