Hello,
I activated a compressed backup profile with variables like this:
Backup-%DATE%--%TIME%.zip
and I get several Zips with date and time. Example:
Backup-18-09-2021--07-25-12.zip
Backup-19-09-2021--10-57-30.zip
Backup-20-09-2021--08-42-25.zip
etc. (I just realized that I had a hundred of them...)
Each backup creates a new ZIP with date and hour. That's OK.
Now, I would now like to keep only the last 15 ZIP backup.
I was using CopianBackup previously and there was this setting available : "Keep only X backups".
But on SyncBack SE, I don't see where this setting is available and if it is possible to do it.
Thank.
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Limit number of backups (when use compression)
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Dav64
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Dav64
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Re: Limit number of backups (when use compression)
This is my solution !
Since I can't find an option to limit the number of ZIP backups, I modified the variable. Instead of writing :
Backup-%DATE%--%TIME%.zip
which gives me an infinite number of ZIPs, I simply set that only the month is part of the name :
Backup-%MONTH%%.zip
So I will have only 12 zips at the most, one per month. At the beginning of each year, the first ZIP will be overwritten and so on. For what I need to do it's fine (mirror mode + zip compression and keep only 12 zips backups). Maybe my idea will help you to do something similar!
I found the list of accepted variables here :
https://www.2brightsparks.com/syncback/help/variables.htm#weeks
Since I can't find an option to limit the number of ZIP backups, I modified the variable. Instead of writing :
Backup-%DATE%--%TIME%.zip
which gives me an infinite number of ZIPs, I simply set that only the month is part of the name :
Backup-%MONTH%%.zip
So I will have only 12 zips at the most, one per month. At the beginning of each year, the first ZIP will be overwritten and so on. For what I need to do it's fine (mirror mode + zip compression and keep only 12 zips backups). Maybe my idea will help you to do something similar!
I found the list of accepted variables here :
https://www.2brightsparks.com/syncback/help/variables.htm#weeks