retention rules

Acronis Backup 11.7/11.5: Archive Cleanup fails with "Failed to find the backup"

Symptoms

  1. You are performing a backup of several machines with automatic replication/cleanup.
  2. The backup completes successfully but archive cleanup fails with an error similar to:

Error code: 507
Module: 64
LineInfo: a1d3981537c687b7
Fields: id : Backup_2013_05_23_08_00_20_414F.TIB, $module : disk_bundle_vs_37613
Message: Failed to open the backup archive by the ID.
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Error code: 1
Module: 64

Acronis Backup to Cloud: Freeing Up Space in Acronis Cloud

This article describes principles of managing free space in Acronis Cloud.

Acronis Cyber Backup: differential backup archives are not deleted from storage if cleanup by number of backups is used

Symptoms

  1. You create a plan to backup disks/partitions with the following parameters:
    • Backup format: Version 12 (.tibx)
    • Where to backup: internal or external disk
    • Backup scheme: full backup + differential backups
    • Cleanup: by number of backups (e.g. maximum number of backups= 3)
  2. You run the backup task several times;
Acronis Cyber Protect 15, Acronis Cyber Backup 12.5: Cleanup by number of backups results in one extra backup

Symptoms

  1. You set up a backup task with cleanup scheme By number of backups and choose to start cleanup before backup.

  2. After you run the backup several times, recovery points in Show backups show one more recovery point than the number of backups specified.

Cause

This is by design.

Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, Acronis Cyber Backup: Activity fails with "The specified file does not exist"

Symptoms

Backup in Version 12 format fails with following error message:
error 0x40011: The specified file does not exist

Acronis Cyber Protect: Retention rules - how and when they work

Introduction

For clarity of the article, we will define two terms: “backup type” and “backup sets”.