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full backup issue

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how i keep only one full backup copy from full backup instead of keeping many backup files, for example, i created a full backup for monday to sunday, now it will created 14 full backup files after 2 weeks, how do i keep only 1 fullbackup copy, & what about if i want to keep 7 days full backup copy, how do i setup , Thx

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piaakit wrote:i created a full backup for monday to sunday
piaakit wrote:now it will created 14 full backup files after 2 weeks, how do i keep only 1 fullbackup copy
Do not setup the job to create full backup every day, as you did?
With the default job settings, the job will only create 1 full backup per week.
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Or do you maybe want to have just a single restore point on disk (full backup) at any moment in time? In this case you can set the retention policy setting to 1.
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i want the full backup will overwrite by the next full backup, only single backup for restore point, can i achieve that ? retention policy setting to 1 will achieve my wish ? and where to set that ?
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To achieve that, you need active full to be scheduled every day the job runs and retention policy set to 1. These settings are available in the job wizard at the Storage step.
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And if specifically want "overwrite" to happen, you should also change the backup mode to "reversed incremental".
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