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Backup Files

Started by Millercw , Jun 15 2011 05:00 AM

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Millercw

Posted 15 June 2011 - 05:00 AM

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What about selectively removing backup files as described below. How does WHS handle the files left.

7/01/2011 Backup file. #10
6/10/2011 Backup file. #9 Delete
6/01/2011 Backup file. #8
5/31/2011 Backup file. #7 Delete
5/01/2011 Backup file. #6
4/20/2011 Backup file. #5 Delete
4/01/2011 Backup file. #4
3/20/2011 Backup file. #3 Delete
3/01/2011 Backup file. #2
2/01/2011 Backup file. #1

I don't know the proper way to cleanup backup files from the WHS backup drive or files backed up from my computers.

Is there a white paper on this?

Thanks

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Dave Marchant (WGS)

Posted 15 June 2011 - 07:33 AM

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If you mark a backup for deletion, it is processed at the next Cleanup - normally a Sunday just after midnight. You can trigger a manual cleanup if required. As the backups comprise unique disk clusters with a map (in a database) to reconstitute both the file structure and disk image from them, only clusters that are no longer needed in any of the remaining backups will be removed. Hence a major cleanup may not really recover much space.

There are white papers on a number of the features unique to WHS v1 and you can find links in the Wiki section here. Go to the Wiki FAQ's and head for WHS Documentation.