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Now that you are able

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using Akeeba Backup

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to take regular backups

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it's useful to know

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about the Quota Management that
 Akeeba Backup offers.

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Quota management

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applies to the profile

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and only to the backups 
taken with that profile

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not to all backups.

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Select the profile that you wish to use

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and click on Configuration.

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Here you can see a reminder

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which profile it is that you are using.

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If you scroll down

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until you reach Quota Management.

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There are several different options

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available to you.

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If you hover over any

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text on the left

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you'll get a popup explaining

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exactly what each option provides.

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Here we can enable maximum 
backup age quotas.

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If I select this

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I can now define

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how many backups to keep

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on a daily basis.

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Here I am saying I want to keep

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all backups taken with the last 31 days.

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But don't delete the backup

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taken on the 20th day.

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Once a backup file

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is removed by the Quota Management

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the record that a backup took place

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will still exist.

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This field here sets the maximum

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number of obsolete records to keep.

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In other words records

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of backups that took place

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where the backup file is no longer present.

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An alternative to setting up

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by the backup age

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is to set up based on physical size.

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If you enable the size quota

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you can then set the quota in megabytes

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of the amount of disk space 
you want to use

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for your backups.

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For example

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if I chose 256

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that will mean

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that once I reach 256 megabytes

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of backup files

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the older ones will be removed

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to provide space for the newer ones.

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This is useful if you have 
limited disk space.

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Alternatively

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you may chose to enable the count quota.

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The count quota

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will keep a specified number of backups.

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As you can see you can 
chose a predefined number

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or enter your own here.

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Finally if you are using 
Akeeba Backup Professional

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with remote file storage

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such as Amazon S3 or Dropbox

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you need to enable the

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remote file quotas option

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in order for

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the quota that you apply below

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to apply to that remote storage.

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I usually chose the remote file quota, 

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and the backup age

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of 31 so I keep

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the last 31 days of backups

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but I keep

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the one from the 20th.

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If I Save and Close that

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and now go to my Manage Backup

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you can see exactly what has happened.

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Here we can see that

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an automated backup has taken place,

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the file has been stored remotely,

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it is taking place on a daily basis.

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As we scroll back

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we can see that there is a backup kept 

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for every day

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until we reach the 21st

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which is 31 days ago.

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This backup has been removed.

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The next backup on the 20th has been kept

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because I had told it to keep

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all the backups that are taken 
on the 20th of the month.

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Moving down we can see all 
the rest have been removed

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until we reach the 20th of 
the previous month

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and that one has been kept.

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So with this configuration

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I will end up

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with one backup per month

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plus the last 31 days of backups.