On 11/11/15 17:55, Michael Rasmussen wrote: > On Wed, 11 Nov 2015 16:40:11 +0100 > John Crisp <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Yes it is a configuration option under storage. But what does it >> actually control as it doesn't appear to be clear ? >> > It controls the number of backups for each VM so if this number is two > this means you can have at most 2 backups of this VM on the backup > storage at any given time. > > For manual backups this means a backup job will fail if there is > already 2 backups of this VM at the storage. For the automatic backup > schedule it means the backup scheduler will add a new backup and if > this backup succeeds it will delete the oldest backup ensuring there is > only 2 backups at any given time. > >
OK.... thanks for the explanation. I had mine set at 2. On my 1 Tb drive (actual 917GB) it has two dump files on there of 327G so when it goes for the 3rd one there is only 274Gb left and it fails. I guess I need to drop that number to one ! I'll give it a go tonight. Many thanks. B. Rgds John
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