Zimbra 8 Backup Retention

Upgraded to 8 (NE) a few weeks ago, and noticed our disk usage increasing substantially. Turns out that our old backups are not being purged. In "7", I believe there was an entry in cron (something to the effect of purging at a particular # of days). In 8, there appears to be no such opportunity. The admin allows me to set a % (or amount) to keep free, but I've set it 20 times, and it never "sticks". That is, if I immediately look at the parameter again, it has reset to 0.

I've searched the forums high & low (and the 8 admin guide as well).

What are my options?

... as the zimbra user type

zmschedulebackup

to list/edit the crontab. You should see somehting like

Code:

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Current Schedule:

        f 45 3 * * 4 -a all --noZip
        i 45 3 * * 0,1,2,3,5,6 --noZip
        d 30d 45 3 * * *

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If there's no entry beginning with "d" your backups will not be purged. The command

Code:

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zmschedulebackup -D

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will restore the default schedule with 30 days worth of Backups.