Gfs cleanup scheme – Acronis Backup for VMware 9 - User Guide User Manual

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Create Backup wizard, Step 3 “Where to back up”, Simple cleanup scheme, delete the outdated backups

The second option allows you to clean up the archive if the number of backups exceeds <…>. Again, if
you set this number at 1, then for the Always Incremental archive mode there will be a synthetic full
backup created, i.e. an incremental backup which will remove the unnecessary old recovery point
contents after the backup is finished. If the retention number of archives is greater than 1, then the
cleanup is performed according to the Always Incremental archive mode (refer to section “Single file
backup scheme (Always Incremental)” (p. 10) of this User Manual for further information).

3. GFS cleanup scheme

This is a common “Grandfather-Father-Son” cleanup scheme which allows you to keep a certain
number of daily, weekly and monthly backups. Indicate how many daily, weekly and monthly
backups you need to keep. All backups made within one day are considered to be “daily” ones and
will be all deleted when that date is expired. The same rule applies to “weekly” backups.