Cisco FMC Backup Limit (Auto/On-demand)

[Agung1007]

Hi team,

Greetings,

Is there any limit for the Backup feature on FMC ?

for example, FMC limit the Auto-Backup (Recurring Backup) with only 10 Files (Considering by weekly auto-backup, which is 10 weeks), 

if more than 10 files backup, the oldest of backup is auto-delete by the system?

and is the on-demand backup counted as the 10 files limit as mentioned before? or "outside" of the limit for the auto-backup?

Or the FMC keep the file until the storage of backup is full (on local) ?

*even for auto-backup & on-demand backup

Much appreciated.

Thanks,

Best Regards.

[balaji.bandi]

if more than 10 files backup, the oldest of backup is auto-delete by the system?

yes as per i know either case  the oldest will be deleted.

[Agung1007]

Do you have a documentation regarding this?

what time/count that the system count the backup as "oldest" ?

Already search for the documentation but I have not yet found the statement "the system will auto-delete the oldest one" ?

Thanks!

[balaji.bandi]

i dont have in hand, will get that information soon, as i remember it was document some where .

[Agung1007]

Got it!
much appreciated.

Regards.

[Eric R. Jones]

Hello, I have setup my FMC to do recurring backups but I haven't seen a limiting function or auto/on demand choice. I manually go in to the FMC Console, or into the remote backup location, and remove the oldest backups or backups not of the current version.

[Agung1007]

Hi,

what FMC are you using?

I'm using FMC 6.6.5 but still not found setting/function to limit how much/many backup FMC on the device.

Still we need to go "manually "  the backup file count ?
*to make sure the storage is not full

[Eric R. Jones]

We started working with 6.6.2 back in Dec of 2020 and have been on 7.0.1 for a few months now. I've never found a way to automatically delete backup images in the FMC. It may be part of the FDM native to each device. 

[Marvin Rhoads]

FMC backups will fail if the target file system (local or remote) exceeds 90% utilization. I'm not aware of any feature allowing you to auto-delete older backups. I have found customer FMCs with many dozens of old backups.