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Why 25 restore points on disk when retention is set for 7?

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I have a weekday backup job set up for 7 restore points, incremental, enable synthetic fulls.

Why is it creating a restore point every day and not removing any past 7 days?

Edit: It shows the last Full backup was done last month, then everything afterwards is incremental
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Re: Why 25 restore points on disk when retention is set for

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Max, what are the scheduling settings for this job? Is it chained to run after another job by any chance? Seems like synthetic full is not performed.
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Re: Why 25 restore points on disk when retention is set for

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It's set to run daily at 7pm. The only other thing is that I set up the "secondary target" to a continuous copy job.

I did notice that it's scheduled to run on week-days, but the synthetic full is scheduled on Saturday. Could that be the problem?
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Re: Why 25 restore points on disk when retention is set for

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It should not, as synthetic full should be performed irrespective of the job schedule. At least this is how it used to be in v6.1 and v6.5.
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Re: Why 25 restore points on disk when retention is set for

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Is there any way to force it run a synthetic full so I can consolidate all those rollbacks?
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Re: Why 25 restore points on disk when retention is set for

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You can, probably, set a synthetic full for this day in the job setting and, then, run the job manually. Might do the trick. Thanks.
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