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BESR 8 does not delete the old recovery points

Updated: 21 May 2010 | 2 comments
James Bond's picture
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I do have a server with BESR 8 installed and a job created like this.
base : 1/month
recovery points : Monday-Friday
Limit the no. of recovery point sets to: 1

The backup destination is on another server across the network.
Checking today the destination server I noticed that the space ir running very low on the backup destination partition and then I saw that there are backups there since Mar the 1st and today is Apr 23rd. All the backups are in place and here is the labeling:
C_Drive015.v2i                       03/01/2009   base
C_Drive015_i001.v2i            03/02/2009    incremental
C_Drive015_i034.v2i             04/23/2009   incremental

Some of days are missing and I suspect the server was down at that time. No big deal as long as all the recovery points are in order even not 1 day after the other.

There is also a base backup labeled C_Drive016.v2i on Apr 1st base backup after its size.
I don't understant why it didn't continue with C_Drive016_i001.v2i on April 2nd.
It's eating a lot of space this way and now I cannot delete any of the recovery points beucase I have only 1 base linked to them.
Any thoughts?
Thank you.

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susanthas-123's picture
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2009
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On the BESR concole you have

On the BESR concole you have an otpion to select how much disk space you want to allocate for the BESR backup. In the same windows you have a tick box selecting to delete the older image files safely. unfortunatley I don't have BESR installed in machine to take a screenshot. Please drop me a mail I'll follow and send you a screenshot.

Anuj 2's picture
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2009
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Hi Please share it..

Hi Susanthas,

      If you have certain screenshot which describes the steps then can you please forward it to me at anuj@apara.com.

T&R
Anuj