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ams_tschoening
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I've set up File History in Windows 8.1 using the GUI to delete backups older than one month, but there's no automatic cleanup: The backup target contained files many months older. Cleaning up manually using the GUI provided by File History worked, as well as doing it on the shell using `fhmanagew.exe -cleanup ...`. Creating the backups work as well, they are as current as expected.
There's the following task in the task planer:
> \Microsoft\Windows\FileHistory\File History (maintenance mode)
But I don't see if that does backups only or cleanups as well. Monitoring the execution after manually triggering the task using Process Monitor, I have the feeling that it handles backing up itself only. From my understanding of File History, I thought it takes care of cleaning old backups up automatically as well. Why should there be a GUI to configure how long to store things otherwise? But there's no automatic cleanup happening in my case and I'm not the only one:
So is there any automatic cleanup or are users really expected to do it manually? If there's an automatic cleanup, how is that triggered?
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There's the following task in the task planer:
> \Microsoft\Windows\FileHistory\File History (maintenance mode)
But I don't see if that does backups only or cleanups as well. Monitoring the execution after manually triggering the task using Process Monitor, I have the feeling that it handles backing up itself only. From my understanding of File History, I thought it takes care of cleaning old backups up automatically as well. Why should there be a GUI to configure how long to store things otherwise? But there's no automatic cleanup happening in my case and I'm not the only one:
So is there any automatic cleanup or are users really expected to do it manually? If there's an automatic cleanup, how is that triggered?
More...