Dear,
We are using Backup Exec 2014 with SP1 on a Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1.
All updates have been applied to BE.
The following options have been set in the Storage configuration:
- Overwrite recyclable media contained in the targeted media set before overwriting scratch media.
- Allow backup exec to delete all expired backup sets
The configuration is as follows:
- Data retention of 2 weeks
- One full backup on friday and daily incremental backups.
- backup to disk configuration on a QNAP
- All media have now the status 'expired'
- The disk is full and the backup cannot proceed because disk is full.
When browsing to the disk there is a @recycle folder with several terrabytes of 'recycled' data, why is this folder not deleted?
In the backup to disk folder, there are all the other backup to disk folders which have not been deleted.
When I manually click on 'Expire' on the backup to disk sets, the sets get expired and storage is getting free'd up.
Why is this not happening automatically? All services are running and no errors are generated.
This is a fresh Backup Exec 2014 installation, nothing has been migrated.
Many thanks