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Incremental backup not deleting files that are over 7 days old

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Hi
I have a incremental backup of my Entire PC and it is working correctly, except it does not remove old copies older that 7 days.
Can I remove them manually from win explorer?

Thanks
MachineGun

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At this moment I would caution against manually removing an archive slice.

Are these images made by a task started with a previous version of TI or 2015 made tasks?

What options have you chosen in the task schedule and advanced Options?

All backups are from ATI 15.
All setting are pretty much the default settings.
MachineGun

The default settings won't put in place a clean up strategy. You need to look at the retention options.

MachineGun,

Tell us or show us how your backup scheme is set.

If you have cleanup set in your backup scheme, full after 6 Inc
If rule selected is "Delete older than 7 days" is selected, deletion will not begin until the first chain (7 files) is completed and entire chain is older than 7 days.

Here is an example for a new backup task--if needed

GH12. Create Custom Incremental Backup Scheme. 6 Inc, Keep 4 chains. The 6-4 is an example only with user choice for whatever number of chains to be retained best fits the individual needs.