What to do when destination hard drive is full
I have TrueImage 2009 Home and my second hard disk (destination) is full. I can't seem to find out how to handle this. It doesn't seem that Acronis is deleting old backups. Full backup is from 10/2009.
Please help if you have any idea
-G

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Thanks GroverH.
All I have is a single full and months worth of incrementals. Perhaps I will delete them all and start over.
Anybody else?...
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That isn't such a good plan - One Full and the rest all incrementals. If one of the Incs gets corrupted then all the later ones are of no use. If the one Full gets corrupted then ALL the Incs are of no use.
Better to do about 5 or 6 Incs then start over with a Full and another 5 or 6 Incs.
Best of all is to not do Incs at all if you have the space - just do all Fulls.
Have you actually tried a restore?
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Before you start on your deletion, do this.
The only files you can delete (while keeping the set workable) is to delete the newest incrementals. If you delete the oldest incrementals, then all the incremental become useless.
So, delete the newest and delete just enough to create sufficient space for a new full backup.
Then, boot from the TI Rescue CD and perform a new backup and perform the type of backup where you checkmark alongside the disk. This will cause everything on the disk to be a part of the new backup. Be sure and validate the new backup as part of the process.
Once, you have a new validated backup, then you can delete some more of the newest incrementals to achieve more free space.
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Thanks for the help...
Yeah, I'm starting to see the many flaws with Acronis that are mentioned in these support forums (as referenced by their own "Acronis support model"). Heck, you can't even contact support without paying 25% of purchase price to ask a simple question about basic performance. If people in other industries did this they would be out of business. Do you guys run other things like WD or ??
I have a 350GB full backup and a 500GB backup destination hard drive. Maybe I just need to baby-sit this software and delete everything every week and then do full & incrementals for a week (rinse and repeat).
Starting to wonder about spending the money for acronis but I'm willing to learn if there is a reasonable way that this software can function. I bought it so I didn't have to baby sit it. Maybe I just need to buy a bigger destination drive and just to fulls?
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If you are backing up 350GB and your destination is a 500GB drive then basic math is against you. Ideally, you would have say a couple of 1TB or a 2TB drive for a target.
OTOH, you might consider a different strategy. Obviously, you have a lot of data files. If they aren't I'd get them out of the OS and apps partition and use TI to image it. This will allow you to restore a bootable volume if necessary.
I would then use a program like Karen's Replicator, SyncBack, PowerToys etc (Google: replicator backup for a bunch of them). These programs will put your existing folder structure on a backup drive and then do incrementals which will not likely cause it to grow at a fantastic rate. What's the difference between this and a TI data backup? The difference is the files aren't lumped into big container files such that if something goes wrong the whole container file may be lost and also any succeeding containers if it is part of an incremental chain.
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Seekforever is right on. If you want to read about others handle their backups, read item 12 inside my signature index below.
OracleDBA's Chain2Gen can really help you. As mentioned before, check my signature link below.
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Thanks for the help.
As a short term solution I think am going to delete all backups within TI. Then do another full and start incrementals again.
And read Groverh stuff...
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