I have got the W2012 Backup running, saving to a volume which is my attached external USB hard drive. It does create its own folder and stores the backups there. But, I am still having some difficulty regarding configuring it. I would like to control its retention policy (ie only store the last 7 backups) so I can keep it from filling up my disk. According to this technet link:
Windows Server Backup Overview for Windows 2012
this is supposed to be a feature of Windows backup on W2012. But, I cannot for the life of me figure out how to set these options. I can’t find any documentation on the Web that is relevant to this functionality in W2012. Could you please ask one of your Windows Server 2012 experts around there how this is done and share it with me?