Knowledge Base

This is current product behavior

This article applies to:

• Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Advanced Server
• Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Advanced Server SBS Edition
• Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Virtual Edition
• Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Advanced Workstation
• Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Server for Windows
• Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Workstation

Symptoms

1. You create a backup task to create incremental backups and set the following parameters for retention rules:
   • Move backups if archive size exceeds certain size;
   • Consolidate backups if backup has dependencies;
2. When the archive exceeds the specified size, backups are not moved till the next full backup is created;

Cause

This is current product behavior. In the described configuration backups will only be moved after a next full backup is created.

Solution

As a workaround, specify the conditions for moving backups based on archive age or archive size.

More information

Acronis Development Team is working on changing Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 behavior to move backup archives according to set rules.

See also Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.