Hello Syed,
Syed wrote:Everything appears to be running normally except backup space appears to be using more space than expected
Using forward incremental backup method with 14 restore points you actually keep more than 2 full backups(.vbk files) at the time. For instance, if you scheduled full backups on 1st, 8th, 15th... of August with chains of incremental backups(.vib files) in between, say on 18th of August you will have 3 .vbk files, since retention policy keeps .vib files of August, 4th-7th which rest upon 1st .vbk file, so your repository has to keep it until August 22th.
Syed wrote:Can someone please suggest how can I reduce the usage of disk space but keep retaining 2 weeks of backups with daily backup job.
To avoid the described above behaviour, use reversed incremental backup method. Or click checkbox "Transform previous full backup chains into rollbacks" (see your screenshot); but, it less likely since requires additional resources.
Another option is to
increase Data Compression and Deduplication. It helps;but, requires a trade-off. Switching from forward to reversed incremental method is to solve your problem, so, probably, you don`t need it for now.
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