When working with rotated media (for example one backup disk for each week day), for B&R V11 there is a registry key that enables the feature to automatically remove oldest restore point(s) from backup disk when it needs more space.
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[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Veeam\Veeam Backup and Replication]
"ForceDeleteBackupFiles"=dword:00000003
There are GUI options now, but you can't configure V12 to work like V11 with its reg key feature:
a) continue backup chain -- keeps adding files to backup disk until no space is left and backup fails
b) remove all backups for this job -- this deletes all restore points from this backup job
c) remove all backups for all jobs -- this removes all backups from all backup jobs
This means with V12 you are forced to:
a) manually clear old restore points each time a backup disk is full, which is unworkable
or
b) and c) only have ONE restore point per backup disk; which means for a week day rotation your oldest backup is just from 5 days ago
Please bring back the 'ForceDeleteBackupFiles' feature in V12!