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Microsoft Azure Backups not reducing available recovery points or destination usage after retention period has been reduced.

I had the retention period set to 30 day with around 6.8TB of backups.Over a week ago I changed the retention period down to 7 days, and it took a couple of days for the total recovery points to go down to 7. The destination usage was still going up.

I have come in today (monday) and the total backups is now 10 and the destination usage is now 7.57TB.

I only have the one server backing up to Azure Backups Services.

My questions are;
1. how long does it take for azure to delete backups from outside the retention period*
2. why are there move recovery points that the retention period?
3. Is there a way to purge just the backups outside the retention period?

*It does say the backup agent, "space allocation data is updated on a daily basis".

It would be a great help if anyone had some information on this as the storage costs are getting very high.

Thanks for the help in advance

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    Same thing here. 1 Daily backup set with a 7 days retention, yet there's 33 available recovery points (everyday since the first backup, 1 month ago). – P-L Jan 20 '15 at 18:25

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After wasting a couple of weeks looking online and talking to the azure support team, the process I ended up to fixing this problem was to create another vault on azure and set ABA to backup to the new vault.

Now with this new vault and the using the lasted version of ABA the longest retention is 8 days even thought it is set to 7 days retention.

Hope this help anyone else having the problem save a lot of time and money.

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