I m having similar issues with windows server backup wsb on server essentials 2012.
Windows server 2016 backup delete old backups.
After deleting all but twelve backups on the drive i saw there was now about 384 gb of space left.
If i am using windows server 2016 std version.
More research and forum posts have turned up some additional information.
I had a backup fail for lack of disk space even though 61 backups were available.
Use this below command in powershell.
Now if you open windows server backup you ll see that the log is empty.
The backup destination in this instance was an external usb drive.
If the automatic disk usage management criterions are not satisfied you can still delete old backups created by windows server backup.
Is there any chance to create backup with multiple copies in share drive.
This resulted in the server being unable to complete a windows server backup.
Use this subcommand only if the backup catalog on this computer is corrupted and you have no backups stored at.
You can use the windows task scheduler command schtasks query to display the list of all scheduled tasks when i checked on when the next backup was scheduled to run by filtering the output of that command with the find command by searching for automaticbackup i saw it was for 7 00 pm.
Backup version management if you want to delete the system state backup you may use wbadmin delete systemstatebackup in command shell.
Version keepversions or deleteoldest.
2016 at 7 43 pm.
I had to manually delete old shadow copies to get the backup running again.
I did with server 2008 data center and during recovery i can provide date for old backups and can get old files and folders but in windows 2016 std only last successful backup available for recover.
If your server is running windows server 2012 2012 r2 or windows server 2016 you can run wbadmin delete backup command to remove backups as you wish.
Deletes the backup catalog on the local computer.
For the steps to do this refer to the next section.
You can specify the backups you want to delete by using one and only one of the following parameters.