Hi, we have a main disk with around 200 GB and a backup disk with around 1TB capacity. We have scheduled a daily backup and we would like to retain at least a couple of backups to be able to not only restore to yesterday but even further in case we find a mistake that happened longer than 1 day ago. Unfortunately the behavior of the Windows Server Backup is like this: Add first backup Add second backup ... Add nth backup (does not fit on disk -> delete oldest backup -> so far so good) At some point (did not figure out the pattern yet), when adding a new backup not only the oldest one(s) are deleted until enough space is there, but ALL backups are wiped -> Useless, since cleaning up only a fraction of the oldest backups would be sufficient. I would appreciate any help on this! I am asking because the previous questions did not yield any answers: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/lync/en-US/9d2e527f-5a2a-4b5a-9393-f64f60205693/windows-server-2012-r2-backup-wipeout-to-many-older-copies?forum=winserver8gen https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/lync/en-US/f0575845-98bf-4b5e-a0e7-c28366de6b89/windows-server-backup-removed-all-older-backups-once-disk-was-full?forum=windowsbackup

Windows Server Backup on Windows Server 2016 Datacenter wipes ALL old backups

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Hi,

we have a main disk with around 200 GB and a backup disk with around 1TB capacity.

We have scheduled a daily backup and we would like to retain at least a couple of backups to be able to not only restore to yesterday but even further in case we find a mistake that happened longer than 1 day ago.

Unfortunately the behavior of the Windows Server Backup is like this:

Add first backup
Add second backup
...
Add nth backup (does not fit on disk -> delete oldest backup -> so far so good)
At some point (did not figure out the pattern yet), when adding a new backup not only the oldest one(s) are deleted until enough space is there, but ALL backups are wiped -> Useless, since cleaning up only a fraction of the oldest backups would be sufficient.

I would appreciate any help on this!

I am asking because the previous questions did not yield any answers:

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/lync/en-US/9d2e527f-5a2a-4b5a-9393-f64f60205693/windows-server-2012-r2-backup-wipeout-to-many-older-copies?forum=winserver8gen
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/lync/en-US/f0575845-98bf-4b5e-a0e7-c28366de6b89/windows-server-backup-removed-all-older-backups-once-disk-was-full?forum=windowsbackup