Example 2. Limiting the age and total size of stored backups

Consider the following scenario:

• You want to perform a weekly full backup of your machine.
• You want to keep all backups that are younger than a month.
• You want to keep even older backups, as long as the total size of all backups stays below 200 GB.

In this scenario, create a backup plan with the Custom scheme. When creating the backup plan, specify a weekly schedule for the full backup. In Clean up archive, select Using retention rules.

Click Retention rules, select the Backups older than and the Archive size greater than check boxes, and specify respectively 1 month and 200 GB. In If the specified conditions are met, select Delete the oldest backups.

Click OK. In Apply retention rules, select the After backup check box.

Result:

• Backups that are younger than one month are kept, regardless of their total size.
• Backups that are older than one month are kept only if the total size of all backups (older plus younger) does not exceed 200 GB. Otherwise, the software deletes some or all of the older backups, starting from the oldest one.