Strange behavior of pruning
Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 8:12 pm
I’ve experienced some difficulties with pruning.
I’ll explain in the example.
I have a session-based backup (keeping 2 sessions).
If a new file appears, the program backs it up. When the file is deleted from hard drive the program prunes it after 2 back-ups.
But if I mark some existing file on hard drive that has been backed up not to be backed up any more (add it to exclusion), the file will not be pruned until I delete the oldest existing session in “Undo Backups (Prune Backup Sessions)” dialog (or manually delete excluded files in Maintenance dialog).
Is this a normal behavior of the program?
How could the program be made to prune excluded files without my interference?
I’ll explain in the example.
I have a session-based backup (keeping 2 sessions).
If a new file appears, the program backs it up. When the file is deleted from hard drive the program prunes it after 2 back-ups.
But if I mark some existing file on hard drive that has been backed up not to be backed up any more (add it to exclusion), the file will not be pruned until I delete the oldest existing session in “Undo Backups (Prune Backup Sessions)” dialog (or manually delete excluded files in Maintenance dialog).
Is this a normal behavior of the program?
How could the program be made to prune excluded files without my interference?