Hi,

Very interesting screen shot of the apparent change in time of execution--thanks.

Have the backup files gotten larger?

I'd be even more worried if an AC backup of data and imported items took the same 57 minutes to finish after more than 50 days of normal office activity.

It almost seems as if 6 minutes has slowly been added (in a confusing way) to the entire backup task.

Those small but random-size time-increases in the apparent start-time look awfully like a backup-program dealing with daily data growth.

Your original post suggests that you may not have remote access, but if you do, you could connect, start task manager around 11:55 p.m., and watch to see whether the AC backup starts hogging the CPU and disk-activity at midnight or six minutes later.

As for the annoying problem of automatically deleting old AC backups, this AC forum usually recommends the free autodelete program from CyberD:

https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/cyber_ds_autodelete.html

It's a good idea to try your autodelete settings on a test folder to make sure that it works the way that you want.

Cheers,

Carl Fogel