How do I get the backups to auto delete older ones?

[leen3o]

I have a 2TB drive and I'm doing bi-daily backups to it of my build server I have (Its just a standard Win 7 Home PC).

Problem I'm having is, instead of backing up and if the space is limited deleting the oldest one and keeping the newest its just failing?

And I can't for the life of me see in the back & restore settings to tell it to do this? Is it possible? I hope so or its a bit useless to me

Any help greatly appreciated.

 

[Brink]

Hello Leen, and welcome to Seven Forums.

Unfortunately Windows Backups are not deleted automatically. They are created until you run out of HDD space, then you get a notice to manage your backups to manually delete the ones you do not want to free up HDD space.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/628-backup-user-system-files-delete-backups.html

and

Managing backup disk space - The Storage Team at Microsoft - File Cabinet Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

Hope this helps some,
Shawn

 

[leen3o]

Hmmm balls Thanks for the reply though! For some reason I was sure it did it automatically.

I'll write a batch file tomorrow to delete the older backups :/

 

[Brink]

You're welcome. It would make it easier, but I suppose they did this way to make sure that needed backups do not get deleted automatically by mistake.