About Altaro Software
Founded in 2009, Altaro Software is a fast-growing developer of user-friendly backup solutions aimed at SMBs. Altaro employs an enthusiastic team who understands that one way to innovate continuous data protection (CDP) technology is by taking a step back from the implementation details to understand the customer’s objectives, requirements and resources.
Altaro’s products including Altaro Hyper-V Backup, Altaro Backup FS & Altaro Oops!Backup are available worldwide from Altaro and its network of value added resellers.
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hi,
I am testing the HyperV backup. Recently we had an issue with a full backup drive. Is there some auto-clear function for old backups?
thanks, Jan
Thanks for contacting us Jan.
Yes indeed you can configure a maintenance schedule to automatically delete older backups. More information can be found in our user guide here:
http://www.altaro.com/manuals/Altaro-Hyper-V-Backup/V3-1/HTM/LimitingtheAgeorSizeofOlderVer.html
If you need any further assistance please feel free to drop us an email on support@altaro.com
I’ve got a good idea for an article. May help you sell some software too.
hyperv makes things so easy, that you often have inexperienced people managing hyper-v hosts. I’ve seen several lately that seem to think that permanently leaving your vm in snapshot mode is backing it up! Not only is this NOT a backup solution, but also hurts vm performance, and causes several other potential issues. There’s a lot written on snapshotting and performance, etc for vmware, but not hyperv.
Also, if you haven’t already in a prior article, explain what snapshots are good for. Some disk IO benchmarks of normal vs. snapshot mode would be super cool too.
Thanks,
Stephen
Hi Stephen,
Thank you for your comments and input. We did publish an article about not using snapshots in place of backups about a year ago: http://www.altaro.com/hyper-v/why-hyper-v-snapshots-dont-replace-backups/.
I worked for a while to collect some benchmarks for that article, but it really didn’t have that much of a negative impact until I started to get some fairly aged snapshots nested three or more deep. The benchmarks just weren’t different enough to be worth making a big deal about.
Eric, thank you. Indeed, a great article! Sorry I missed it before. I’d paged through a few pages of articles earlier and had just assumed..
Perhaps a drop down index of your articles on your home page may be useful?
Thanks!
Stephen