Empower WDM has too many backups stored - WKB81064

SYMPTOMS

• Empower WDM has too many backups stored
• Retention policy is set to a redundancy of 1 
• Multiple backup folders
• Full backups are scheduled to run once a week, with incremental backups daily

ENVIRONMENT

• Empower 3 Feature Release 5
• Empower Enterprise
• WDM (Waters Database Manager)

CAUSE

None; this is operating as designed.

There are folders for each day a backup was executed, but most folders are empty with 0 bytes.

In the Empower 3 Feature Release 5 System Administrator's Guide (page 45 of rev. A), it states that "By default, the backup retention policy is set to Redundancy 1, which means one full backup set (full backup and incremental backups) is kept in the FRA. Archive logs are removed when a new backup is made. When a new, full database backup (level-0) runs, previous backups older than one week are removed from the database backup location."

FIX or WORKAROUND

None

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Empower 3 Feature Release 5 System Administrator's Guide