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James Larson

Does Windows Server 2016 Essentials Automatically Clean Up Older Backups When Drive Space is Needed?

Hi everybody!

I'm running Windows Server 2016 Standard with the Essentials Role enabled.  Does Essentials cleanup older Windows Server backups automatically as space is needed on the backup drive or do you have to do that manually?

Thanks!
James

asked02/21/2019 19:37
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  • Mariette Knap

    In the below screenshot you can see what the default retention policy is. It does not look at free space as far as I know. The client computer backup cleanup task is scheduled to run at 11:59 PM every Saturday after all backups are complete. The cleanup task deletes backups from the client computer backup database according to the backup retention policy. The default settings for the backup retention policy are:

    answered 02/22/2019 11:38
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    James Larson

    Aaaahh, I forgot about that.  Thank you Mariette!

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