acronis 2013 2TB 4 OS's backup drive full... assistance removing old backups properly please.
i have 4 OS's using acronis 2013 backing up to (1) 2TB Drive on the network, well this morning i got an alert the drive is full.
could some one guide me on how to delete old backups please the proper way? Right now on all systems i've done full backup and incrementals, and everyday the systems backup, it's been backing up flawlessly for all systems for over a yr. so i think if i can remove some backups i'll be good for awhile, if someone could lend a hand :)
Thanks In Advance
I saw your post but no time to answer--not even now. Lool at this link.
http://forum.acronis.com/system/files/delete-backup-file.jpg
Do the deletion from within the program. The deletion will be from the inside of each of the old tasks. If the task or backups not listed, You may even have to use the "Browse for Backups" , then select the files and use the "Add to backup list" option in order to get them to appear on your main menu listing.
But first, Use the Windows search and search your storage locations for *.tib
Familiarize yourselef with what you have in backups. Try sorting the search on both date/time as well as name.
Understand what you want to delete before you begin any deletion.
One option would be to delete the inc's from the oldest chains keeping the oldest fulls as newer full's should have you covered.
If more space needed, then delete every other old full from the oldest group. Try to keep your all your time covered in one backup or another.
My example will help you to get started. Later we can address the prevention of disk full situation.
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Addemdum:
In order to prevent another full disk, my suggestion would be to create new backup tasks and set the backup scheme to "automatic cleanup". You can see example of this in link 2 below in illustrations 11-Inc; 11-Dif; or 11-Ful--depending upon whether you which type bacup you wish to use. I strongly urge against editing or making alternations to an existing task as the results are usually not what is expected and just delays a change to a new task anyway. If changes needed, create a new task and start over with the correct settings.. I also recommend that each task has its own folder so backups files are not mixed.
Thanks for the Reply Grover...So after reading this and looking at your images/links i'm pretty much stuck with doing the addendum due to the fact i will want to implement this 'Automatic cleanup" to accomplish never running out of storage?
if so.. can I delete all files from each pc's backup folder on the os backup drive EXCEPT the original FULL backup, and expect Acronis to still make a NEW SEPARATE full backup and then incrementals(automatic cleanup) or will it over write my original FULL backup? (if i recall windows backup is notorious for this) I'd feel much more comfortable starting "fresh" if i have a copy of my original pc OS backups. (all settings/programs etc haven't changed much in the last 6 months/everything else firefox, outlook etc, can be sync'd) but i did spend alot of time installing, and originally setting up all these systems and their programs.
Thanks Again.
P.S. I was grossly mistaken in my time frame. It's a 2TB drive and the first FULL backup for all PC's is 6/8/2013 (so alllllmost 6 Months) Does this change our/my game plan in regards to a more efficient backup plan?
Yes, I can understand the comfort feeling of keeping the old backups. Maybe for Christmas, put a present under the tree for yourself and let it ba a 3TB external disk which is about $100.
if so.. can I delete all files from each pc's backup folder on the os backup drive EXCEPT the original FULL backup, and expect Acronis to still make a NEW SEPARATE full backup and then incrementals(automatic cleanup) or will it over write my original FULL backup?
if you delete all but leave the full, the full could be your safety value for recovery but it was creat ed by the old task. In order to setup automatic cleanup, we are talking about a new task starting with a new and empty storage sub-folder so the old backups are not-involved in the new rotation with cleanup.
"Yes, I can understand the comfort feeling of keeping the old backups. Maybe for Christmas, put a present under the tree for yourself and let it b a 3TB external disk which is about $100."In my backup drive\each OS folder now has 2 folders
1. Original image backup
2. Image Backups - these new folders we will use for the incremental automatic backup you suggest.
The Total Available space on the OS's Backup Drive right now is 1400GB
As it sits now each PC's OS drive has a total possible GB of...
1. 100 gb
2. 225 gb
3. 300 gb
4. 120 gb
May I ask how you would tackle this please?
Thanks In Advance :)
You can use the quote option from the post which you wish to quote which will quote the entire posting and require manual changes,.
or, Here is how you would manually create a quotation in this forum by supplying your own quote syntax.
I am not familair with your equipment so not sure I can help. I am not a technician --just another user.
I am not sure we are on the same wave link with my suggestion. It possible neither of us is undertanding the other.
This link below illustrates how my suggested backup scheme might look and how the storage folder would look.
The size and number of backup would always be the same according to what you set within the backup scheme. If you were to include backups from different computers within the same storage disk, then you would need to determine how much space each computer can use and set your backup scheme settings based on those limitatiion.
http://forum.acronis.com/system/files/forum/2009/11/5940/example-folder…
then you would need to determine how much space each computer can use and set your backup scheme settings based on those limitatiion.
TY for quote instructions :)
i guess i didnt explain myself properly, sorry...what im asking is how do i know what my incrementals will be (what will each size be), so i set it up properly? (I'm unsure on the numbers i should be putting into versions chain, and full backup)
thanks sorry for confusion.
There is no way of predicting the size of an incremental. If you have had old backups these might be used as a guide, or you may have to make some test runs and then create a new fresh tasks with hopefully the desired settings. An incremental is a backup of disk sectors which have changed since the last backup. This would be all new items plus any old items which changed.
As noted in my illustration 11-Inc, the backup scheme is specific and it is custom/incremental. This backup scheme is not using any of the default settings. It is custom so you can use the automatic cleanup option.
well i do have the os backups\backup i guess i could screenshot. and then maybe that would give me a closer idea.