AD system state backup on Windows 2008, disk size increasing

Hello everyone,

I've been working lately with Windows Server 2008 RTM version, and I promoted one server (virtual machine) as a DC. After having some obstacles configuring the AD system state backup I finally completed and I had a schedule backup running periodically.

That backup storage is made on a seconday disk on the DC, but I found out that the system state backup catalog it's getting real big in a few weeks, meaning that the VM disk is increasing as well (over 25gb right now).

Is there any way that I can have more control about that? Like accessing the system state catalog and removing old system state backups? Basically I don't want to get to the point where I have virtual disks over 200gb :)

Thanks!

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